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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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Apr
6
2015
New Russian CFC Rules Will Impact Inbound U.S. Tax Planning Bilzin Sumberg
Feb
25
2021
Navigating U.S. Foreign Investment Controls: Updated CFIUS Flow Chart and Critical Infrastructure Matrix Wiggin and Dana LLP
Sep
23
2019
Mass. SJC Reaffirms that Zoning Exemption for Educational Uses is Expansive; Residential Psychiatric Program for Adolescents Easily Qualifies Pierce Atwood LLP
Jul
10
2024
CFPB Releases Long-Awaited Proposed Mortgage Servicing Rule; Bradley to Host Webinar on July 15 Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
Dec
28
2013
Sixth Circuit Holds That Affiliated Business Arrangements Are Not Bound by HUD’s (Housing and Urban Development) Statement of Policy Regarding Sham Affiliated Business Arrangements (AfBA) Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Mar
5
2021
Mass. Appeals Court Imports Chapter 40A Presumption of Standing into Boston Zoning Enabling Act Pierce Atwood LLP
Oct
2
2019
Real Estate Development Runs Afoul Of California Securities Laws Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Jan
14
2014
Disposition of Tangible Personal Property in a Side Letter Odin, Feldman & Pittleman, P.C.
Jan
9
2023
Spaced Out – The Shift Away from Minimum Parking Requirements ArentFox Schiff LLP
Dec
29
2011
Thirteen NC Counties Set to Revalue in 2012 Poyner Spruill LLP
May
6
2015
Q&A Video Podcast on NJ Affordable Housing Oversight Stark & Stark
Jan
29
2014
California Bill Would Authorize Pre-Judgment Wage Liens On Real And Personal Property Of Employers And Third Parties Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Jan
19
2023
Mass. SJC: $3.5 Million Payday for Torrent of Errant Golf Balls Not a Fore-Gone Conclusion Pierce Atwood LLP
Jan
23
2012
Real Estate Development Dispute Over Copyright in Engineering Plans - State Court or Federal Court? Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla, P.C.
May
19
2015
Indiana Courts Address Mortgage Foreclosure Counterclaims and Joint Defense Agreements Barnes & Thornburg LLP
Apr
2
2021
Gap Closings: A Commercial Real Estate Necessity, Especially Now Sherin and Lodgen LLP
Oct
25
2019
Rejecting a Suit Seeking a 43.9% Higher Payout, the Delaware Chancery Court Declared That the $18 Per Share Price Paid for Stillwater was the Fair Value. K&L Gates
Feb
11
2014
Deeds-in-Lieu of Foreclosure: Whether to Take an Assignment of the Developer's Agreement von Briesen & Roper, s.c.
Oct
25
2017
Real Property Mortgages, Section 707(b) of the Bankruptcy Code, and the Applicable Appellate Standard: How the Ninth Circuit Distinguished Between Questions of Law and Fact Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla, P.C.
Feb
2
2023
ESG and the Commercial Real Estate Industry: Financing Options and Tax Incentives for a Greener Future ArentFox Schiff LLP
Feb
24
2012
Property Tax Assessment Notices Require Careful Attention Varnum LLP
Jun
1
2015
Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securitization Investors Given “Safe Harbor” Protection Squire Patton Boggs (US) 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
Nov
4
2019
CVA Challenges by Landlords – the Latest News Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Feb
20
2014
5-Year Congressional Farm Bill Signed Into Law Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
Feb
15
2023
Leaving the Nest: Healthy Community Association Transition Ward and Smith, P.A.
Jun
12
2015
N.Y. Court of Appeals Resolves Statute of Limitations Accrual For Putback Claim Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
May
6
2021
Tenants Get at Least a Week’s Breathing Room Under Continuing Eviction Moratorium Roetzel & Andress LPA
 

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