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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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22
2015
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Aug
8
2021
Withdrawal Liability – Real Property Presumed a Trade or Business Jackson Lewis P.C.
May
22
2014
Proposed Regulations Clarify Definition of “Real Property” for Real Estate Investment Trusts McDermott Will & Emery
May
8
2018
Release of 2017 HMDA Data Covington & Burling LLP
May
24
2023
Abolition of Duty on Commercial and Industrial Properties in Victoria K&L Gates
Nov
10
2015
Tenancy by Entirety Not Defense to Mortgage Foreclosure Case When Both Spouses Signed Letter of Direction to Trustee of Land Trust Horwood Marcus & Berk Chartered
Aug
25
2021
GRATS — Grantor Retained Annuity Trusts Wiggin and Dana LLP
Jun
11
2014
Leading Markets Index Shows 56 Metros at or Above Normal Levels in June Bilzin Sumberg
Aug
28
2012
Possible Law Requiring Nonprofit Land Conservancies to Pay Property Taxes is a Bad idea Varnum LLP
May
18
2018
Use of Transfer on Death (TOD) Deeds Broadened Under New Statute Davis|Kuelthau, s.c.
Dec
3
2015
New Jersey Court May Force Sale of House Post-Divorce Stark & Stark
Sep
7
2021
Public Improvement Districts Texas Legislative Update Winstead
Jun
21
2014
SB 440, Chapter 2014-14 of Florida Laws, Nonresidential Condominium Bill Becomes Law Bilzin Sumberg
Jun
12
2023
Manhattan Commercial Revitalization Program (M-Core) Launched to Transform Aging Office Buildings K&L Gates
Dec
18
2015
California Supreme Court Rejects Mandatory "Reverse CEQA" Analysis Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis 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
Jul
1
2014
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Mar
25
2020
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8
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19
2023
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Jan
11
2016
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Nov
1
2012
What Should Waterfront Property Owners Know About Plats? Varnum LLP
Jul
16
2018
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Jun
28
2023
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Oct
28
2021
The Road Ahead – Four (4) “Mile Markers” to Watch in the Year Ahead Stark & Stark
Jul
29
2014
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Mar
30
2020
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