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Real Estate, both commercial and residential, is constantly evolving. The National Law Review covers the latest legal analysis in real estate and construction law across a variety of governmental levels—state and federal. Additionally, NLR covers updates related to transportation and other utilities and public works.

Public and private construction projects, financing, mortgages, tax cuts and incentives, foreclosures, and other topics are covered regularly and updated routinely on the site. Other areas covered include litigation, mediation, and arbitration which affects owners/contractors/subcontractors in the field, government agency news, and coverage of news/stories related to lenders, insurers, and sureties in the industry.

Public work issues are also covered frequently by the National Law Review. Infrastructure financing, topics including entitlements, development rights, property rights, the public-private partnership (P3), permitting, local ordinances, variances, and different legislation/restrictions in development. Coverage of development and property owner rights, cases involving homeowners associations, fees, pending litigation, and changes to local/state/federal ordinances and variances, are also available.

Additionally, the National Law Review covers regulations and legislation as it relates to mortgages and other real estate lending requirements; including, the requirements imposed on lenders under RESPA, and other news from the CFPB as it relates to homeownership and mortgage procedures, such as the Know Before You Owe Rule.

Articles related to highway safety, transportation news, and other utilities-topics, are also covered by the National Law Review. Coverage of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and changes to the organization are analyzed by NLR legal experts. The emerging technology of autonomous vehicles, developments in that technology, and the emerging regulation around driverless cars are analyzed, and the impact of this game-changing technology is considered.

In the construction arena, reporting worker injuries on the job site, and coverage of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) laws are extensively reported on by the attorney writers at the National Law Review. 

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Recent Construction, Real Estate, Infrastructure & Zoning News

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11
2014
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Aug
28
2012
Possible Law Requiring Nonprofit Land Conservancies to Pay Property Taxes is a Bad idea Varnum LLP
Jun
1
2018
5Pointz and the Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990 Mintz
Dec
8
2015
Water and Land Part 1 re: North Carolina v. Alcoa Power Generating Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Sep
21
2021
Mass. High Court: Three-Year Clock for Wetlands Protection Act Enforcement Actions Re-Starts With Every Sale of Property Pierce Atwood LLP
Jun
21
2014
SB 440, Chapter 2014-14 of Florida Laws, Nonresidential Condominium Bill Becomes Law Bilzin Sumberg
Mar
25
2020
Stay-At-Home and Safer At Home Orders Impose Restrictions on Residential Landlords and Rental Property Managers Davis|Kuelthau, s.c.
Jun
17
2018
Blind Pool Fund V. Pledge Fund ArentFox Schiff LLP
Dec
23
2015
New Uncapping Exemption for Ladybird Transfers Varnum LLP
Jul
1
2014
Office of Inspector General (OIG) Urges Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) To Sue Over Force-Placed Insurance Bilzin Sumberg
Oct
8
2012
Retail Did You Know? Court of Appeals Expands Inducement for Patent Infringeme​nt Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Jan
17
2016
North Carolina Supreme Court Rejects Claims against Lender over Failed Real Estate Development Poyner Spruill LLP
Oct
28
2021
The Road Ahead – Four (4) “Mile Markers” to Watch in the Year Ahead Stark & Stark
Mar
30
2020
COVID-19 Update: Coronavirus-Related REMIC Considerations Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Nov
1
2012
What Should Waterfront Property Owners Know About Plats? Varnum LLP
Jul
23
2018
The Mortgage Controls: Mortgagors' Dispute Regarding Alleged "Excessive" and "Unreasonable" Property Inspection Fees Fails to State a Claim Under FDCPA Ballard Spahr LLP
Feb
6
2016
Sports Authority Looks to be the Next Big Tenant Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Filing Stark & Stark
Nov
11
2021
New UK Rules Governing Unpaid Commercial Rent Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Jul
27
2023
Why a Recession Could Be Good for the Bond Market, the Banking Sector, and the Real Estate Market ArentFox Schiff LLP
Jul
29
2014
Collateral Estoppel Bars Copy-Cat Environmental Plaintiff in New Case After Judgment Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Nov
19
2012
A Fool With a Pen Makes Good Law Dickinson Wright PLLC
Apr
6
2020
What Landlords Need to Know About Eviction, Lender Talks, and Rent Concessions Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Dec
1
2012
Division of Tax Appeals Finds Taxpayers Established Change in Domicile from New York City to the Hamptons McDermott Will & Emery
Sep
21
2018
Opportunity Zones—Curb Your Enthusiasm (Maybe…) Sills Cummis & Gross P.C.
Dec
15
2021
Virginia Expands Housing, Employment Protections for Military Members Jackson Lewis P.C.
Aug
17
2023
Bankruptcy Court Rules Payment of Default Interest is Required to Reinstate Defaulted Loan ArentFox Schiff LLP
Apr
9
2020
CARES Act Section 4022 Forbearance and Foreclosure Moratorium Jones Walker LLP
 

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