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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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2016
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3
2020
Cares Act Provides Significant Benefits to Real Estate Industry McDermott Will & Emery
Jul
27
2023
Why a Recession Could Be Good for the Bond Market, the Banking Sector, and the Real Estate Market ArentFox Schiff LLP
Aug
19
2014
California: If A Tree Falls In The City, Is It Serving A Public Purpose? Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Oct
21
2018
Qualified Opportunity Zone Proposed Regulation Release Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Dec
8
2021
Freddie Mac Addresses Cryptocurrency in Mortgage Lending Criteria Hunton Andrews Kurth
Dec
24
2012
HR-4753: An Early Christmas Gift for Michigan Cottage Owners! Varnum LLP
Oct
31
2018
Pennsylvania Attorney General solicits redlining complaints from consumers Ballard Spahr LLP
Jan
2
2013
Beware the Boilerplate: Issue Two Hunton Andrews Kurth
May
5
2016
Measure Twice and Cut Once: Creating Compliance Program to Manage Unreliable FHAA and ADA Design and Construction Indemnification Provisions Much Shelist, P.C.
Apr
10
2020
Client Alert: What Landlords and Tenants Need to Know About Massachusetts House Bill 4615 and Senate Bill 2631 Sherin and Lodgen LLP
Aug
17
2023
Bankruptcy Court Rules Payment of Default Interest is Required to Reinstate Defaulted Loan ArentFox Schiff LLP
Jan
13
2013
The Supreme Judicial Court Declares that Inexpensive Market-Rate Housing May Not Be Counted in Determining a Town’s Compliance with Chapter 40B Mintz
May
24
2016
New Opportunities for Credit Union Ownership of Real Estate in Massachusetts Sherin and Lodgen LLP
Aug
29
2023
California Expands FEHA Liability to Include “Institutional Agents” of Employers Proskauer Rose LLP
Sep
24
2014
Are Landlords and Tenants “Jointly and Severally Liable” Under the Industrial Site Recovery Act (“ISRA”)? Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla, P.C.
Jan
25
2022
U.S. Supreme Court Positioned to Finally Resolve Scope of Federal Jurisdiction Over Remote Wetlands Beveridge & Diamond PC
Jan
28
2013
Good News for Lenders! Minor Errors in Deeds of Trust Less Costly As Result of New Bankruptcy Court Opinion Poyner Spruill LLP
Jun
9
2016
P3s and Political Risk: Why Miami-Dade’s P3s Can Weather Political Climates Bilzin Sumberg
Apr
19
2020
What Does the Extension of the Safer At Home Order Mean for the Remodeling Industry? von Briesen & Roper, s.c.
Feb
8
2022
Power of Attorney: Useful, When Executed Correctly! Strassburger McKenna Gutnick & Gefsky
Feb
11
2013
Apartments Are Hottest Development In the Triangle. Get It? - Apartment Transactions Are on Way Up Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Jun
30
2016
Massachusetts Appeals Court Imposes Higher Hurdle For Master Plan to Defeat 40B Project Beveridge & Diamond PC
Feb
28
2013
Illinois Supreme Court Issues New Procedural Rules for Foreclosures Katten
Jul
27
2016
Connecticut Foreclosures: Judgment of Loss Mitigation – Good, Bad or Unnecessary? Murtha Cullina
Apr
27
2020
COVID-19: Revenue Procedure 2020-26 (April 13, 2020) and the CARES Act – treatment of mortgage loan forbearances and modifications for mortgage loans in REMICs and fixed investment trusts K&L Gates
Oct
14
2014
Regulators Increase Scrutiny of Wall Street Lending Bilzin Sumberg
Jan
30
2019
Seizing the Opportunity with Qualified Opportunity Zones Carlton Fields
 

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