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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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Feb
22
2012
Down to the Wire – Will There be an Extension of The Florida Distressed Condominium Relief Act? Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor & Reed, P.A.
Feb
24
2023
Last Mile Warehouse Bills and Proposed Special Permit Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Dec
4
2017
US Senate Passes Tax Reform Legislation – Here Is What You Need to Know Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Nov
14
2019
Real Property & Financial Services Update: Week Ending November 8, 2019 Carlton Fields
Jul
1
2015
Chinese Buyers Lead International Purchases of U.S. Residential Real Estate, New Report Reveals Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Feb
20
2014
Seventh Circuit Holds That a Trustee Had Constructive Notice of a Mortgage Under Illinois Law Barnes & Thornburg LLP
May
17
2021
Virgin Active Restructuring Plan approved in a disappointing week for landlords Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Dec
28
2017
Massachusetts Appeals Court Holds that Restrictive Covenants Created as Part of a Common Scheme May Be Extended Beyond Thirty Years Only if Explicitly Allowed in the Original Instrument Mintz
Dec
2
2019
Can a Landlord be Forced to Accept a Surrender of a Lease? Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Jul
14
2015
Inapplicability of the "One Year" Limitations Tolling Period of the N.C. Rules of Civil Procedure Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Mar
4
2014
Broker Awarded Fees in Massachusetts Where Lease Was Not Signed Sherin and Lodgen LLP
May
26
2021
Struggling Hotels Can Provide Turn-Down Service, Can't Be Turned Down for Subchapter V Bankruptcy Ward and Smith, P.A.
Mar
17
2023
Remote Work and Higher Interest Rates Drive Office Defaults Across the United States ArentFox Schiff LLP
Jan
15
2018
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act: Impacts On The Real Estate Industry Godfrey & Kahn S.C.
Dec
13
2019
NJDEP Releases Report on Sea-Level Rise in New Jersey Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla, P.C.
Jul
24
2015
It’s Time to Rewrite Wisconsin’s Single-Party Listing Agreement Foley & Lardner LLP
Mar
17
2014
The COAH Saga Continues - New Jersey Council on Affordable Housing Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla, P.C.
Apr
3
2012
Cottage Planning: Dealing with Estate Taxes, Part 1 Varnum LLP
Jun
8
2021
Law of the Land - Real Estate Litigation Newsletter Goulston & Storrs
Mar
30
2023
Is A Biker Gang A "Person"? Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Aug
6
2015
Flushing Out the Safe Harbor: “General Land Area Minimum” Offers Newton No 40B Shelter Beveridge & Diamond PC
Mar
25
2014
What is Mine Might Not be Yours: Estate Planning Consideration for Blended Families Altro LLP
Apr
24
2012
Seventh Circuit Decision May Spur Limited Revival of HAMP Claims Against Loan Servicers Much Shelist, P.C.
Apr
8
2023
U.S. Supreme Court to Resolve Circuit Split Over Whether ‘Testers’ Have Standing to Pursue ADA Suits Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.
Feb
14
2018
Patents for Real Estate Searching on a Computer Are Invalid Under Section 101 Hunton Andrews Kurth
Jan
13
2020
Appellate Court Holds Charter Cities Are Bound By State Housing Objectives, Signaling Erosion of Local Discretion Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Apr
9
2014
Significant Changes Made by Registrar of Contractors (ROC) to its Complaint and Hearing Process Dickinson Wright PLLC
May
21
2012
Adapting To Market Conditions: Joint-Venture Considerations For The Institutional Real Estate Investor And Its Legal Counsel Sills Cummis & Gross P.C.
 

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