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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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2019
California Supreme Court Confirms Lender Foreclosure Option Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
May
2
2024
Eleventh Circuit Affirms Dismissal of FCRA Claims Since Alleged Inaccurate Information Was Not Objectively and Readily Verifiable Blank Rome LLP
Jun
4
2017
Are UAVs Fair Game Over Private Land Polsinelli PC
Aug
20
2013
State of North Carolina Files Lawsuit Over Its Ownership of River Beds Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Apr
16
2011
To Avoid Assuming Fiduciary Duties, Mortgage Lenders Should Take Care to Avoid Acting as Mortgage Brokers Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
May
14
2024
Navigating South Carolina Tax Sales: County’s Posting of Conspicuous Notices Nelson Mullins
Sep
14
2022
HUD Releases Update to HECM Program Requirements for HECMs Due and Payable Due to Death of Borrower Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
Feb
18
2015
South Africa To Ban Foreign Land Ownership? Covington & Burling LLP
Oct
1
2020
PFAS — What You Need to Know in Transactions Van Ness Feldman LLP
Aug
29
2013
Latest Development on Brazos River Senior Water Rights Call Beveridge & Diamond PC
Jun
20
2019
Florida Zoning Appeals Law: Miami-Dade County Special Exception Denial Quashed Bilzin Sumberg
May
23
2024
Stark Compliance: Lease Sharing Arrangements for Providers of Designated Health Services Varnum LLP
Jun
29
2017
Planned RET Amendments in Poland K&L Gates
Sep
26
2022
B.S.ing with George Fatheree [PODCAST] Major Lindsey & Africa
Feb
26
2015
Affordable Housing is an Economic Development Benefit McBrayer, McGinnis, Leslie and Kirkland, PLLC
Sep
18
2013
Lessons Learned about Real Estate Lending in this Last Recession Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
Jul
9
2019
New Website Designed to Avoid Eviction Proceedings: Hello Landlord from BYU, the University of Arizona & SixFifty The National Law Review / The National Law Forum LLC - NLR
Jun
20
2011
Texas Legislature Permits Concealed Guns on Employers’ Property Bracewell LLP
May
31
2024
CFPB Opens Public Probe on Closing Fees Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Jul
20
2017
Are You Sure You Want to Challenge That Permit Condition? Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Oct
5
2022
Court Transfers Keller Williams Case to Texas: Learn More About the First-Filed Rule! Troutman Amin, LLP
Mar
6
2015
Community Infrastructure Levy: What Constitutes Lawful Use to Reduce CIL Liability? Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Nov
14
2020
Evict Like a Jerk and Suffer the Consequences Ward and Smith, P.A.
Oct
3
2013
Condo Hotels: What's the Reality? Sale of Real Estate or Security -- Ninth Circuit Sheds Some Light Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Jul
18
2019
Court Enjoins HUD Attempt to Impose New Down Payment Assistance Requirements Ballard Spahr LLP
Jul
10
2011
Pennsylvania To Amend Its Erosion and Sediment Control General Permit Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Jun
11
2024
Know Thy Neighbor as Thyself: CFIUS Considerations in Commercial Real Estate Transactions Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Aug
9
2017
Bet-the-Synagogue Case: Reversal for Congregation Shearith Israel in Hotly Contested Suit Greenberg Traurig, LLP
 
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