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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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Jul
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2011
Pennsylvania To Amend Its Erosion and Sediment Control General Permit Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Feb
9
2015
California Court Decision Confirms Shopping Center's Right To Limit Expressive Activity to Designated Areas Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Dec
7
2020
COVID-19 Update: We’re All in This Together, but Landlords Are About to Take a Bath – SDNY Upholds Constitutionality of NYC’s Guaranty and Tenant Harassment Laws Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Jul
31
2019
California State Budget Summary: Allocations for Housing and Homelessness Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Aug
9
2022
Developments in Employee Screening for Real Estate Industry Jackson Lewis P.C.
Feb
23
2015
Ohio Supreme Court Invalidates Local Fracking Restrictions ArentFox Schiff LLP
Dec
17
2020
Victory for Irish Landlords in Monsoon CVA Rent Disputes Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
May
6
2024
The Escalating Threat of Mortgage Fraud Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
Aug
14
2019
9th Circuit Says CPUC’s Standard Contract and Re-MAT Program for Certain Renewable Generators are not PURPA Compliant Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Nov
2
2013
Contingent Business Interruption Insurance - Insuring Against the Unfathomable McBrayer, McGinnis, Leslie and Kirkland, PLLC
Jan
11
2021
California Housing Legislation Effective in 2021 Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
May
15
2024
Florida’s Live Local Act Middle-Income Affordable Housing Exemption Has 2-Year No-Exemption Exit Trap Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Nov
14
2013
North Carolina Court of Appeals: Parties Seeking Enforcement of a Note Need to Make the Chain of Title Clear in the Pleadings, and Should Plainly Request to the Trial Court That Any Dismissal of Their Complaint be Without Prejudice Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Jul
26
2017
The Law of Lis Pendens in Massachusetts and Rhode Island Sherin and Lodgen LLP
Mar
11
2015
Long v. Hardin -- Owner beware, Eastern District of Missouri upholds $10 sheriff's sale of $65k property Armstrong Teasdale
Jan
27
2021
NCGS Chapter 160D is the New Law of the Land (Planning and Development Regulations) – Highlights for Development Professionals Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
May
24
2024
HUD Updates Home Equity Conversion Rules for Purchases Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Sep
28
2022
The House We Bought Has Undisclosed Defects – Now What? Norris McLaughlin P.A.
Nov
25
2013
The Reemergence of Branded Residential Realty Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Mar
26
2015
A “Magnificently Convoluted and Contentious” Plat re: Waterfront Property Varnum LLP
Feb
17
2021
Serving on Your Community Association’s ARC, ACC, or ARB? Take Note to Whom Your Fiduciary Duties Are Owed Ward and Smith, P.A.
Jun
4
2024
Single ASTM Standard for Phase I ESAs for Commercial and Industrial Properties Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Sep
11
2019
Court Holds Arbitration Provision Does Not Violate California’s McGill Rule Carlton Fields
Oct
7
2022
USFWS Tries Again to Make Eagle Take Permitting Process Work for Stakeholders and Wildlife Hunton Andrews Kurth
Dec
13
2013
Releasing Lease Guarantees by Mistake in England Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Aug
31
2017
New By-Laws Amendment Procedures Mandated by PREDFDA Stark & Stark
Apr
7
2015
Landlord Wins Lawsuit Due To Good Lease and Guaranty Stark & Stark
Feb
27
2021
Indian Nations Law Update - February 2021 Godfrey & Kahn S.C.
 
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