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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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Jan
14
2014
Disposition of Tangible Personal Property in a Side Letter Odin, Feldman & Pittleman, P.C.
Dec
29
2011
Thirteen NC Counties Set to Revalue in 2012 Poyner Spruill LLP
Jul
17
2024
Washington, D.C. Guidance on the Taxation of Leasehold Assignments Hunton Andrews Kurth
Oct
25
2017
Real Property Mortgages, Section 707(b) of the Bankruptcy Code, and the Applicable Appellate Standard: How the Ninth Circuit Distinguished Between Questions of Law and Fact Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla, P.C.
Jan
5
2023
EPA Adopts Updated Phase I Environmental Site Assessment Standard that Addresses PFAS and Other Emerging Contaminants Babst, Calland, Clements & Zomnir, P.C.
Jun
1
2015
Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securitization Investors Given “Safe Harbor” Protection Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Jan
29
2014
California Bill Would Authorize Pre-Judgment Wage Liens On Real And Personal Property Of Employers And Third Parties Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Jan
23
2012
Real Estate Development Dispute Over Copyright in Engineering Plans - State Court or Federal Court? Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla, P.C.
Jul
25
2024
Litigation Minute: Extreme Weather and Natural Disasters: Insurance Tips for Commercial Policyholders K&L Gates
Jun
12
2015
N.Y. Court of Appeals Resolves Statute of Limitations Accrual For Putback Claim Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Feb
11
2014
Deeds-in-Lieu of Foreclosure: Whether to Take an Assignment of the Developer's Agreement von Briesen & Roper, s.c.
Feb
24
2012
Property Tax Assessment Notices Require Careful Attention Varnum LLP
Feb
20
2014
5-Year Congressional Farm Bill Signed Into Law Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
Aug
8
2024
Reacting to Tyler v. Hennepin County: Michigan Addresses Retroactivity of Legislative Fix Nelson Mullins
Dec
21
2017
Recent Kentucky Cases Hold That Exempt Owner Does Not Mean Property Taxes Precluded, and Leased Real Property Value May Include “Intangible Values” Dickinson Wright PLLC
Feb
10
2023
Real Estate Agents Are Independent Contractors As A Matter Of Law If Requirements Met Proskauer Rose LLP
Jul
10
2015
Baker’s Dozen: Quick and Easy Tips for Negotiating Commercial Leases in 2015 Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
Mar
4
2014
Massachusetts Affordable Housing Law Trumps Municipal Master Plan Beveridge & Diamond PC
May
6
2021
Flood Warning: Water Is Rising on Cross-Collateral Clauses Jones Walker LLP
Jul
22
2015
N.C. Court of Appeals Dissent Asserts That Spot Zoning Does Not Require a "Single Owner" Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Mar
17
2014
Letters Of Intent For On-Site Solar Energy Transactions Sills Cummis & Gross P.C.
Apr
2
2012
Advertiser’s Challenge to Grand Rapids Township Sign Ordinance Dismissed Varnum LLP
Nov
27
2019
A Winning Combination: Uncle Sam’s Excess Property Inventory and the Opportunity Zone Tax Incentive K&L Gates
Jan
29
2018
Real Estate Aspects of Tax Reform Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Mar
10
2023
Momentum for Streamlining and Subsidizing Office-to-Residential Conversion Projects Builds in Sacramento and San Francisco Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Aug
5
2015
Compulsory Purchase: Home Loss Payments On The Rise Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Mar
26
2014
CEQA (California Environmental Quality Act) Requires Separate Evaluation Of Mitigation Measures And Alternatives Even Where Mitigation Measures Are Incorporated Into Project Design Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
May
26
2021
New York Expands Liability Provisions for New York Real Estate Transfer Tax Katten
 
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