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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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2024
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Jun
20
2013
Stand-Alone Hospitals: To Merge or Not to Merge ... is THAT the question? Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Feb
28
2017
Business Rates Revaluation in the UK and 1954 Act Statutory Compensation Katten
Feb
5
2024
House Passes $78 Billion Tax Bill that Includes Affordable Housing Help Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Jul
5
2013
IRS Work Group to Explore Definition of Real Estate for Taxation McBrayer, McGinnis, Leslie and Kirkland, PLLC
Sep
2
2010
New York State Amends Power of Attorney Law Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Feb
20
2024
Bankruptcy Destroyed My Perfect (Landlord-Tenant) Relationship! Ward and Smith, P.A.
Jul
11
2013
The Supreme Court Gets It Right On Takings - And Wrong - A View from "Inside the Curtilage": The Property Owner's Perspective Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Mar
28
2017
Peru Flooding Spurs Infrastructure Investments Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Dec
21
2014
Considerations for the Boat Slip Sales Re-Emergence Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Jul
9
2020
Understanding and Enforcing Force Majeure Clauses in Commercial Real Estate Leases During the COVID-19 Pandemic Faegre Drinker
Mar
25
2019
Opportunity Zones: Will Upcoming Proposed Regulations Be Business Friendly? K&L Gates
Jul
18
2013
Florida's New Fast Track Foreclosure Law Creates Additional Requirements for Lenders and Mortgage Servicers Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Jan
24
2011
Fannie and Freddie Were Followers, Not Leaders, In Mortgage Frenzy Center for Public Integrity
Apr
14
2017
Additional Opportunity for Increased Extension of Building Permits and Development Orders Bilzin Sumberg
Mar
6
2024
FHA Announces New Loss Mitigation Payment Supplement Option Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
Dec
31
2014
City of Los Angeles Outsources Defense of CEQA/Land Use Lawsuits To Private Law Firms – Developers To Foot The Bill Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Jul
16
2020
California Court of Appeal Decision May Result in Big Tax Savings for Some Commercial Property Owners Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Apr
9
2019
IRS Clarifies General Public Use Requirements for Residential Rental Projects Tax-Exempt Bonds Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
Jul
30
2013
Big Changes For Monmouth Property Tax Assessments Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla, P.C.
Feb
23
2011
2010 Foreign Corrupt Practices Act "FCPA" Year In Review Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
May
4
2017
New Canadian Legislation: Forfeited Corporate Property Act Dickinson Wright PLLC
Mar
15
2024
Proposed Minnesota House Bill HF 4206 Would Prohibit Ownership Interests, Operational/Financial Control of Health Care Providers by Private Equity and REITS Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
Jan
12
2015
North Carolina Appellate Courts Hold Grandfather Mountain Must Pay Property Tax Poyner Spruill LLP
Jul
28
2020
COVID-19 Brings New Procedural Hurdles to Evict Commercial Tenants in New Jersey Stark & Stark
Apr
23
2019
Understanding the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018 Katten
Aug
6
2013
Checking the "Landscape" of the North Carolina General Assembly's Just-Concluded Session Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Jan
23
2015
Department of Housing and Urban Development Asks Supreme Court to Revive Use of Cooperative Agreements for Section 8 Funds Covington & Burling LLP
 
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