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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
18
2024
Following Maryland’s Lead? We Guess Everyone Wants to Go to Court. Icy Challenges to Nebraska’s Advertising Services Tax Act Start to Emerge McDermott Will & Emery
Jul
28
2010
Tax-Exempt Financing Available to Private Entities in 2010 Bracewell LLP
Nov
20
2014
Landlord/Tenant Obligations: Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow…But Should Someone Else Be Clearing it? McBrayer, McGinnis, Leslie and Kirkland, PLLC
Jun
28
2013
Uncapping Continued: “Guidance” from the Michigan State Tax Commission Varnum LLP
Feb
17
2017
Subordination, Non-Disturbance and Attornment Agreements in a Nutshell Sherin and Lodgen LLP
Jan
29
2024
Legal Considerations for GCs and CFOs in the Fashion and Retail Industry in 2024 ArentFox Schiff LLP
Jul
11
2013
Establishing a Legal Lake Level in Michigan Varnum LLP
Mar
3
2017
Major P3 Real Estate Development Opportunities in Downtown Miami Bilzin Sumberg
Feb
6
2024
5 Trends to Watch: 2024 Florida Real Estate Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Dec
12
2014
California Fourth District’s Split Decision Further Complicates CEQA Requirements Surrounding GHG Impact Analysis and Mitigation Measures – Dissent Warns Majority Opinion Will Weaken and Confuse the Law Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Jul
15
2020
COVID-19 Update: Oregon Law Prohibits Foreclosures During COVID Emergency Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Mar
16
2017
Disability Access and Lease Negotiations in California: What Commercial Landlords Need to Know Sherin and Lodgen LLP
Apr
3
2019
HMDA Reality Check: What You Can and Cannot Conclude from New Mortgage Loan Data K&L Gates
Jan
10
2011
New Jersey Courts Place Roadblocks On Lenders' Ability To Enforce Mortgage Documents Sills Cummis & Gross P.C.
Jul
26
2013
In Koontz, the Supreme Court Creates Uncertainty for Permitting Agencies and Opportunities for Developers Barnes & Thornburg LLP
Mar
31
2017
Implications of Energy Use Disclosure Law on California Real Estate Transactions Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Apr
18
2019
OZ Flash: Newly Issued Proposed Regulations and the Administration’s Remarks are a Boon to the OZ Incentive K&L Gates
Feb
28
2024
FinCEN’s Proposed Rulemaking: Enhancing Transparency in Residential Real Estate Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Feb
17
2011
Fiscal Uncertainty and Recession Could Result in More Property Tax Appeals (NC) Poyner Spruill LLP
Jul
30
2020
COVID-19 Update: Continued HOPE of a New Commercial Real Estate Preferred Equity Facility Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Aug
5
2013
Telehealth: A Different (but not to be Ignored) Area of Healthcare Real Estate Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Apr
29
2019
New Opportunity Zone Regulations Provide Clarity on Open Issues for Investors Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Mar
7
2024
Live Local Act ‘Glitch Bill’ Highlights Property Tax Exemption Risk Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Mar
19
2011
The Incredible Bulk: Has the Florida Condo Bulk Buyer Bill Lived up to the Hype? Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Aug
13
2020
Recession Furthers Retail Market's Dramatic Industry Shift Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Aug
14
2013
Your California Condo May Be Secure, But Not A Security Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
May
9
2017
More On Real Estate Funds And The Investment Advisers Act Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
May
6
2019
EIR for Downtown San Francisco Mixed-Use Project Upheld Under Supreme Court’s Newly Articulated Standard of Review Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
 

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