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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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2022
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3
2015
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17
2013
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21
2011
Too Little, Too Late For Plaintiff's Fraud-Based Mortgage Lawsuit Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Aug
1
2017
Amazon Isn’t Killing Shopping Centers, Just Like Video Didn’t Kill Radio Stars Stark & Stark
Nov
8
2022
Up In Smoke – CA Court of Appeal Dismisses Prop 65 Case Against Water Pipe Manufacturer Narrowly Construing The Term “Expose” Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Mar
16
2015
Bank of America’s Inconsistent Positions re: Faulty Residential Mortgage-backed Securities Bilzin Sumberg
Aug
23
2019
NMLS Ombudsman Holds Meeting At 2019 AAMR Annual Regulatory Conference Ballard Spahr LLP
Dec
2
2013
Trespass and Nuisance: Preventative Measures Varnum LLP
Jun
28
2024
Storm Warning – It’s Time to Review Your Insurance Policy and Procedures for Hurricane Season Hunton Andrews Kurth
Aug
18
2017
New Requirements for Planned Developments in Chicago Foley & Lardner LLP
Feb
9
2021
California Legislature Extends Residential Eviction Moratorium and Implements Rental Assistance Program for Landlords and Tenants Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Dec
1
2022
Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR): Considerations for Real Estate Businesses in an Unpredictable Market Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Mar
27
2015
The Need-to-Knows of Living in a Condominium Development – Part One: The Public Offering Statement Stark & Stark
Dec
18
2013
The Critical Role of the Foreclosure Receiver in Wisconsin von Briesen & Roper, s.c.
Jul
10
2024
CFPB Releases Long-Awaited Proposed Mortgage Servicing Rule; Bradley to Host Webinar on July 15 Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
Aug
31
2017
A Board of Trustees May Now Amend the By-Laws Without a Vote of the Unit Owners Stark & Stark
Feb
19
2021
Real Estate Investors Beware - Corporate Transparency Act to Require Disclosure of Beneficial Ownership Steptoe & Johnson PLLC
Apr
7
2015
Danger Zone: A Property Owner's Duty of Safety to Customers von Briesen & Roper, s.c.
Jan
8
2014
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Recent Developments: December 23, 2013 - January 3, 2014 Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Dec
6
2011
Google, Microsoft Assume Roles of Judge, Jury and Executioner on the Web Ifrah Law
Jul
19
2024
CFPB’s New Mortgage Servicing Rule: A Post-Pandemic Overhaul Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Sep
18
2017
Well, Isn't That a Special Use? Navigating the Special Use Permit Process in North Carolina Ward and Smith, P.A.
Jan
9
2023
Spaced Out – The Shift Away from Minimum Parking Requirements ArentFox Schiff LLP
Apr
21
2015
North Carolina Court of Appeals Dismisses Municipal Takings Claim For Failing "Public Benefit" Standard Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Jan
24
2014
Boilerplate Language May Brew Trouble McBrayer, McGinnis, Leslie and Kirkland, PLLC
Jan
11
2012
Regulatory Update: SEC Adopts Final Rules Defining "Accredited Investor" Consistent with Dodd-Frank Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Jul
26
2024
Bipartisan House Working Group Releases Report Calling for Increased Oversight of AI in the Financial Services and Housing Markets – AI: The Washington Report Mintz
 
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