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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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Aesthetics and Land Use Regulations in North Carolina Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
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California Locally Assessed Property Tax - 2014 Assessment Appeals Greenberg Traurig, LLP
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Mar
25
2016
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15
2014
How Remote is Bankruptcy Remote? Is an Operating Agreement Restriction Against a Bankruptcy Filing Without the Unanimous Consent of All Members Enforceable? Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
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Percentage Rent: How Calculated and When to Collect Sherin and Lodgen LLP
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2014
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Apr
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CARES Act Section 4022 Forbearance and Foreclosure Moratorium Jones Walker LLP
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24
2018
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San Francisco Mandates Solar Power on New Buildings Holland & Hart LLP
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Lozman v. Riviera Beach: When is a floating structure a “vessel”? Greenberg Traurig, LLP
May
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2016
Good News on “Bad Boy” Guarantees – IRS Reverts to Prior Position in Recent Legal Advice Memorandum Mintz
Aug
17
2023
Bankruptcy Court Rules Payment of Default Interest is Required to Reinstate Defaulted Loan ArentFox Schiff LLP
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2022
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20
2020
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Dec
7
2018
Lenders’ Discretion and the Limitation of the Braganza Duty Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
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14
2016
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