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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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Feb
20
2014
Seventh Circuit Holds That a Trustee Had Constructive Notice of a Mortgage Under Illinois Law Barnes & Thornburg LLP
May
20
2021
Reform to Retail Prices Index (RPI) K&L Gates
Aug
6
2015
Flushing Out the Safe Harbor: “General Land Area Minimum” Offers Newton No 40B Shelter Beveridge & Diamond PC
Mar
4
2014
Broker Awarded Fees in Massachusetts Where Lease Was Not Signed Sherin and Lodgen LLP
Feb
14
2018
Patents for Real Estate Searching on a Computer Are Invalid Under Section 101 Hunton Andrews Kurth
Apr
5
2023
Think Before You Lease – Nuances of Leasing to Healthcare Service Providers Hunton Andrews Kurth
Mar
17
2014
The COAH Saga Continues - New Jersey Council on Affordable Housing Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla, P.C.
Jun
15
2021
Organics Advocates Dig In With Ninth Circuit Appeal Challenging Certification for Hydroponics Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Apr
3
2012
Cottage Planning: Dealing with Estate Taxes, Part 1 Varnum LLP
Mar
1
2018
Housing group settles FHA lawsuit alleging insurance-related discrimination against Section 8 landlords Ballard Spahr LLP
Mar
25
2014
What is Mine Might Not be Yours: Estate Planning Consideration for Blended Families Altro LLP
Jun
25
2021
New Jersey Residential Real Estate Developments May Receive COVID-19 Immunity Jackson Lewis P.C.
Apr
24
2012
Seventh Circuit Decision May Spur Limited Revival of HAMP Claims Against Loan Servicers Much Shelist, P.C.
Jan
17
2020
Court Rules Against Trustee’s Right to a Jury Trial Where the Trustee Agreed To A Summary Proceeding Winstead
Sep
29
2015
Un Horizonte De Reformas Para El Popular Programa EB-5 Bilzin Sumberg
Apr
26
2023
Garden State “Developers:” SEC Sues Real Estate Investment Firm and its Principals for $630 Million Fraud Norris McLaughlin P.A.
Apr
9
2014
Significant Changes Made by Registrar of Contractors (ROC) to its Complaint and Hearing Process Dickinson Wright PLLC
Jul
6
2021
Making Sense of Company Voluntary Arrangements (CVAs) Post New Look and Regis: A UK Landlord’s Perspective Rent Reductions and Modification of Lease Terms Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
May
21
2012
Adapting To Market Conditions: Joint-Venture Considerations For The Institutional Real Estate Investor And Its Legal Counsel Sills Cummis & Gross P.C.
Mar
29
2018
2017-18 Arizona Case Law Affecting Commercial Real Estate and Lending Ryley Carlock & Applewhite, A Professional Corporation
May
10
2023
Planning Considerations for Out-of-State Real Estate, Mobile Homes and Foreign Real Estate von Briesen & Roper, s.c.
Apr
16
2014
Miami Light Rail System May Become a Signature P3 Bilzin Sumberg
Jun
4
2012
How Can a State of Emergency Declaration in Florida Benefit Your Land Development Investment? Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Feb
6
2020
Navigable Waters Protection Rule: How are the “Waters of the United States” Being Defined? Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Oct
23
2015
New Legislation (AB 802) To Replace Existing Energy Use Disclosure Law (AB 1103) Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
May
25
2023
Keeping it Real (Estate): FTC Secures First Monetary Settlement Against Celebrity Endorsers Hunton Andrews Kurth
Apr
25
2014
Georgia Employers Can Still Ban Guns on Private Premises Despite New ‘Guns Everywhere Law’ Jackson Lewis P.C.
Jul
29
2021
Office Developers Signal an Upward Turn in the Market Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
 
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