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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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Jan
24
2011
Fannie and Freddie Were Followers, Not Leaders, In Mortgage Frenzy Center for Public Integrity
Apr
23
2019
Understanding the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018 Katten
Jul
30
2013
Big Changes For Monmouth Property Tax Assessments Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla, P.C.
Aug
5
2020
Eleventh Circuit Determines AEGIS Must Defend Landlord in Security Deposit Class Action Hunton Andrews Kurth
Feb
23
2011
2010 Foreign Corrupt Practices Act "FCPA" Year In Review Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
May
1
2019
Is the Opportunity Now a Reality? IRS and Treasury Release Second Tranche of Opportunity Zone Regulations Bracewell LLP
Mar
28
2017
Peru Flooding Spurs Infrastructure Investments Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Dec
21
2014
Considerations for the Boat Slip Sales Re-Emergence Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Mar
6
2024
FHA Announces New Loss Mitigation Payment Supplement Option Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
Aug
6
2013
Checking the "Landscape" of the North Carolina General Assembly's Just-Concluded Session Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Aug
19
2020
Not Your Grandfather’s Nonconforming Structure: Mass. Appeals Court Clarifies Deadrick Decision, Discusses Difference Between Increasing an Existing Nonconformity and Creating a New One Pierce Atwood LLP
Apr
14
2017
Additional Opportunity for Increased Extension of Building Permits and Development Orders Bilzin Sumberg
Dec
31
2014
City of Los Angeles Outsources Defense of CEQA/Land Use Lawsuits To Private Law Firms – Developers To Foot The Bill Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Mar
15
2024
Proposed Minnesota House Bill HF 4206 Would Prohibit Ownership Interests, Operational/Financial Control of Health Care Providers by Private Equity and REITS Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
Aug
19
2013
It's Time to Update Your Real Estate Forms (at Least in California) von Briesen & Roper, s.c.
Jun
27
2022
Michigan Adopts Its Version of the Uniform Assignment of Rents Act Miller Canfield
Apr
14
2011
Municipalities Are Responsible For Discharges Of Stormwater Regardless Of The Ultimate Source Of Pollution Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
May
24
2019
How PFAS Contamination is Affecting Area Property Values Varnum LLP
May
4
2017
New Canadian Legislation: Forfeited Corporate Property Act Dickinson Wright PLLC
Jan
12
2015
North Carolina Appellate Courts Hold Grandfather Mountain Must Pay Property Tax Poyner Spruill LLP
Aug
28
2013
North Carolina Court of Appeals Ends Its August on the Scope of Easements and Appeals of Quasi-Judicial Decisions Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Sep
21
2020
Maine Law Court Restricts Use of Easements for Development Permits Pierce Atwood LLP
Jul
6
2022
Once a wetland may always be a wetland when it comes to application of federal and state wetland protection laws! Mintz
May
12
2011
1099-A Reporting Requirements May Apply to You Poyner Spruill LLP
Jan
23
2015
Department of Housing and Urban Development Asks Supreme Court to Revive Use of Cooperative Agreements for Section 8 Funds Covington & Burling LLP
Sep
13
2013
Johnson v. Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Jul
21
2022
Summary of the Biden Administration’s Fiscal Year 2023 Green Book Tax Proposals Proskauer Rose LLP
Jun
13
2011
CERCLA Updates Greenberg Traurig, LLP
 

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