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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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Aug
8
2024
Reacting to Tyler v. Hennepin County: Michigan Addresses Retroactivity of Legislative Fix Nelson Mullins
Feb
10
2023
Real Estate Agents Are Independent Contractors As A Matter Of Law If Requirements Met Proskauer Rose LLP
Feb
22
2014
The Basics: Massachusetts Contingency Plan - Massachusetts Chapter 21E Sherin and Lodgen LLP
Mar
29
2021
Spotlight on PACE: PACE Projects From Downtown Redevelopments to Dairy Farms Foley & Lardner LLP
Oct
18
2019
The Conflict Between Choice-of-Law Provisions in Insurance Policies and a State’s Fundamental Public Policy Carlton Fields
Apr
9
2021
UPDATE: Proposed Taxes on Mezzanine and Preferred Equity Financing and "Pied-à-Terre" Taxes Not Included in Final New York Budget Bill Katten
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
Oct
29
2019
Commercial Landlords, Developers and Cell Tower Leases: Buying Property with a Cell Lease Varnum LLP
Jul
10
2015
Baker’s Dozen: Quick and Easy Tips for Negotiating Commercial Leases in 2015 Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
Mar
10
2023
Momentum for Streamlining and Subsidizing Office-to-Residential Conversion Projects Builds in Sacramento and San Francisco Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
May
5
2021
Federal Judge Vacates CDC Eviction Moratorium Roetzel & Andress LPA
Nov
8
2019
Outside Business Exclusion Precludes Coverage Under a Professional Liability Policy Squire Patton Boggs (US) 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
21
2023
Residential Landlord Provision That Can Cause Big Trouble
Apr
1
2014
This Couldn’t Happen in My Mixed-Use Condominium….or Could It? Re: Condominium Trusts Sherin and Lodgen LLP
May
13
2021
A New Look for retail company voluntary arrangements (“CVAs”)? Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Apr
26
2012
Michigan Court of Appeals Issues Opinion Affecting Mortgages Foreclosed by Advertisement Varnum LLP
Jan
29
2018
Real Estate Aspects of Tax Reform Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Nov
21
2019
Seventh Circuit Class Action Litigation | Fall 2019 Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Aug
5
2015
Compulsory Purchase: Home Loss Payments On The Rise Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Mar
30
2023
Update: Proposal to Increase Tax on Chicago Real Estate Transfers Chuhak & Tecson, P.C.
Apr
10
2014
Ninth Circuit Rules National Banks are Residents Only of Their Home State Bilzin Sumberg
May
21
2021
CDC Eviction Moratorium Not Quite Over: Where Do We Go From Here? Miller Canfield
May
18
2012
Loan Modification Scammers Recruiting Lawyers Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission
Dec
10
2019
Fall 2019 Arizona Case Law Affecting Commercial Real Estate and Lending (December 2019) Ryley Carlock & Applewhite, A Professional Corporation
Apr
11
2023
COVID-19 National Emergency Ends Sooner than Anticipated, Creating Risks for Mortgage Servicers Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
Apr
17
2014
"Rails to Trails" or "Rails to Trespass": Supreme Court Speaks on the Abandonment of Certain Railroad Rights of Way Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Jun
7
2021
COVID-19: Moratorium Madness: Will Challenges to The Eviction Order Force the CDC's Hand? K&L Gates
 
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