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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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Aug
8
2024
Reacting to Tyler v. Hennepin County: Michigan Addresses Retroactivity of Legislative Fix Nelson Mullins
Feb
10
2023
Real Estate Agents Are Independent Contractors As A Matter Of Law If Requirements Met Proskauer Rose LLP
Jul
1
2015
Update On Challenging Wetlands Permitting Decisions Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Apr
2
2021
Gap Closings: A Commercial Real Estate Necessity, Especially Now Sherin and Lodgen LLP
Feb
20
2014
5-Year Congressional Farm Bill Signed Into Law Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
Oct
24
2019
American Bankers Association, Consumer Bankers Association, and Housing Policy Council Joint Comments on HUD’s Proposed Rule on the Fair Housing Act’s Standard of Disparate Impact K&L Gates
Dec
28
2017
IRS Advisory May Limit Individuals’ Ability to Deduct 2017 Property Tax Prepayments ArentFox Schiff LLP
Apr
23
2021
New York City's Article XI Real Property Tax Exemption Program: Providing Attractive Real Property Tax Benefits for Multi-family Properties Katten
Mar
4
2014
Massachusetts Affordable Housing Law Trumps Municipal Master Plan Beveridge & Diamond PC
Nov
1
2019
Washington's Model Toxics Control Act: Transforming Contaminated Sites into Community and Environmental Assets Beveridge & Diamond PC
Mar
10
2023
Momentum for Streamlining and Subsidizing Office-to-Residential Conversion Projects Builds in Sacramento and San Francisco Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Jul
24
2015
Papal Visit to Philadelphia – Positive Economic Opportunities for Commercial/Retail Owners Stark & Stark
May
6
2021
Tenants Get at Least a Week’s Breathing Room Under Continuing Eviction Moratorium Roetzel & Andress LPA
Mar
17
2014
Letters Of Intent For On-Site Solar Energy Transactions Sills Cummis & Gross P.C.
Nov
15
2019
What Happens to Your Home During a Divorce Stark & Stark
Apr
2
2012
Advertiser’s Challenge to Grand Rapids Township Sign Ordinance Dismissed Varnum LLP
Mar
21
2023
Residential Landlord Provision That Can Cause Big Trouble
Aug
6
2015
Illinois Court Limits the Enforcement of a Waiver of the Implied Warranty of Habitability Against a Claim by a Subsequent Purchaser Much Shelist, P.C.
May
19
2021
Real Estate Permitting Update: Massachusetts – 5/19/21 Pierce Atwood LLP
Mar
26
2014
CEQA (California Environmental Quality Act) Requires Separate Evaluation Of Mitigation Measures And Alternatives Even Where Mitigation Measures Are Incorporated Into Project Design Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Dec
3
2019
Real Property, Financial Services, & Title Insurance Update: Week Ending November 22, 2019 Carlton Fields
Apr
23
2012
Illinois Mortgages Subject to Avoidance In Bankruptcy Absent Strict Adherence to Illinois Mortgage Statute: Finance, Insolvency & Restructuring Alert Barnes & Thornburg LLP
Feb
15
2018
House Passes Bill to Amend TRID Rule Disclosures Ballard Spahr LLP
Mar
30
2023
Update: Proposal to Increase Tax on Chicago Real Estate Transfers Chuhak & Tecson, P.C.
May
28
2021
New York City Enacts Tenant Data Privacy Act Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Apr
10
2014
Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC), Solar and Other “Green” Heating Alternatives in Retail Leasing Sherin and Lodgen LLP
Dec
17
2019
Mark Your Calendars for December 31 Polsinelli PC
May
20
2012
New York ALJ Issues Novel Ruling Revising the 'Accrual Rule' on Change of Residence Greenberg Traurig, LLP
 
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