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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
23
2021
More Money, More Problems: Top Legal Issues Facing Real Estate Fund Managers Moving Beyond Their First Fund Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
May
18
2023
New York Governor Signs into Law 2023–24 Budget Bill Containing Important Tax Changes Blank Rome LLP
Apr
18
2018
New York’s Response to Federal Tax Reform: Charitable Contributions Credit McDermott Will & Emery
Oct
22
2015
North Carolina Water and Sewer District: Planning for the Future and Knowing the Past Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Aug
6
2021
Never Say Never! CDC Extends Eviction Moratorium Again until October 3, 2021 Strassburger McKenna Gutnick & Gefsky
May
31
2023
Sackett Decision Shrinks Federal Regulation of Wetlands Babst, Calland, Clements & Zomnir, P.C.
Jun
16
2014
Cottage Transfers of Ownership without Uncapping Property Tax Broadened Under Michigan House Bill Varnum LLP
Sep
14
2012
Florida First District Court of Appeal Renders Important Decision Holding that Purchasers who Acquire Property with Knowledge of Contamination are Liable Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Aug
20
2021
Why CFL Licensed Lenders Must Submit New License Applications By Year End Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Jun
8
2023
Supreme Court Sustains High Bar to Diligent Prosecution Defense for Clean Water Act Citizen Suits Barnes & Thornburg LLP
Jun
24
2014
Unclaimed Property – It Is Not a Tax, but It Can Feel Like One McDermott Will & Emery
Dec
1
2015
Legislación para las P3 en Florida Bilzin Sumberg
Aug
31
2021
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Allows Enforcement to Require Removal of Unauthorized Wetlands Fill for Three Years After Each New Property Transfer Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Jun
14
2023
New York Landlords May Get Stuck with the Bill for Unlicensed Cannabis Sticker Shops Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Jun
11
2018
CFPB dismisses PHH case Ballard Spahr LLP
Jul
8
2014
Massachusetts Registered Land - A Primer Sherin and Lodgen LLP
Oct
15
2012
Fraudulent Joinder: Court Finds Diversity Jurisdiction With Non-Diverse Defendants Varnum LLP
Sep
17
2021
Critical Housing Bills Signed by Governor Newsom Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Mar
23
2020
Update for Mortgage Lender Operations in California Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Jan
7
2016
Par 2: Water and Land re: North Carolina v. Alcoa Power Generating Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Nov
11
2012
Avoiding an Uncapping of Michigan Property Taxes: Klooster v. City of Charlevoix Varnum LLP
Jun
30
2023
Buyers and Sellers Beware: Upcoming Transfer and Recordation Tax Changes in DC and Montgomery County ArentFox Schiff LLP
Mar
25
2020
Louisiana Tax Commission Issues Guidance on Hearings and Property Tax Filing Deadlines Jones Walker LLP
Jul
11
2018
Qualified Opportunity Zones: A Significant Tax Benefit for Investors Varnum LLP
Aug
1
2014
Uniform Residential Landlord Tenant Act: “Mi Casa Es Su Casa”… Not So Fast, Kentucky Landlords McBrayer, McGinnis, Leslie and Kirkland, PLLC
Feb
1
2016
Automated Retail: Stores without Staff, but Not Without Issues von Briesen & Roper, s.c.
Nov
20
2012
CFPB, FTC Announce Crackdown on Deceptive Mortgage Advertising Ifrah Law
Oct
18
2021
Discrimination and Harassment Non-Disclosures Are No-Nos in California Foley & Lardner LLP
 

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