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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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2018
HUD Seeks Comment On Disparate Impact Rule Ballard Spahr LLP
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12
2023
OFCCP Publishes New Construction Contractor CSAL Jackson Lewis P.C.
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24
2014
Unclaimed Property – It Is Not a Tax, but It Can Feel Like One McDermott Will & Emery
Oct
10
2021
How to Improve Cities After COVID-19: What to Know About the Revitalizing Downtowns Act
Jun
28
2018
PODCAST: Thinking Outside the Big-Box: Understanding License Agreements Polsinelli PC
Jan
20
2016
FinCEN Targets High-Value Real Estate Transactions in New York and Miami Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft 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
Jul
27
2018
Unclogging the Equity of Redemption Without "DRANO": Recent New York State Decision Sheds Light on Mortgage Loans Additionally Secured by Equity Pledges Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Mar
31
2020
Poland: Unclear Rules of Temporary Expiry of Lease Rights and Obligations at Retail Facilities of More Than 2,000 m2 Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Feb
10
2016
Changes to Minimum Standard Detail Requirements for Land Title Surveys Coming in February Dickinson Wright PLLC
Nov
11
2012
Avoiding an Uncapping of Michigan Property Taxes: Klooster v. City of Charlevoix Varnum LLP
Nov
17
2021
Association of Bay Area Governments Formally Denies Nearly All Regional Housing Needs Allocation Appeals Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Aug
23
2018
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Trustee’s Momentous Decisions in the United States, England and Offshore McDermott Will & Emery
Feb
25
2016
A Practical Primer on North Carolina Zoning Law Womble Bond Dickinson (US) 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
Nov
20
2012
CFPB, FTC Announce Crackdown on Deceptive Mortgage Advertising Ifrah Law
Dec
7
2021
FinCEN Seeks Comment on Additional AML Regulations for Real Estate Transactions Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Apr
7
2020
Lender Perspectives: UK Coronavirus Act 2020, Impact on LMA Real Estate Form Facility Agreement Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Jul
14
2023
Managing Commercial Real Estate Taxes in California’s Challenging Market McDermott Will & Emery
Mar
14
2016
FDCPA – 11TH Circuit: Kinlock v. Wells Fargo Bank – Post-Foreclosure Offers of Financial Assistance to Defaulted Borrower Not Violative of FDCPA/Florida Consumer Collection Protection Act Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Aug
15
2014
White House Initiative to Expand Public-Private Partnerships Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Dec
6
2012
Wealth Transfer Concerns in 2012 Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor & Reed, P.A.
Mar
27
2020
COVID-19: City of Portland, Maine Issues Stay at Home Emergency Order Pierce Atwood LLP
Jul
25
2023
Real Estate Beneficial Ownership Regulatory Alert: Complying with Foreign Ownership Reporting Requirements in US Real Estate K&L Gates
Apr
5
2016
Waivers of Subrogation: Sometimes Beating A Dead Horse Can Bring It To Life von Briesen & Roper, s.c.
Jan
11
2022
NY Governor Announces Policies to Increase Residential Density in New York City Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Apr
14
2020
New IRS Guidance on Forbearances and Modifications of Mortgage Loans as a Result of COVID-19 Katten
 
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