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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
25
2011
Indiana Appeals Court Finds Appeal of Ordinance Violation Not Moot Even After Fine Is Paid Barnes & Thornburg LLP
Dec
17
2020
Victory for Irish Landlords in Monsoon CVA Rent Disputes Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Mar
5
2015
Zombie Properties May Haunt Lenders in Wisconsin Foreclosures von Briesen & Roper, s.c.
Jun
12
2024
Oregon Declares Meth Residue a Contaminant, Affirms Coverage Denial Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP
Nov
18
2013
Important Tax Incremental Financing (TIF) Legislation Signed into Law in Wisconsin: Additional Tools Available for Towns to Finance Development Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
Oct
27
2022
The DOJ’s Fight Against Redlining Continues Jones Walker LLP
Sep
22
2011
Countrywide Protected Fraudsters by Silencing Whistleblowers, Say Former Employees Center for Public Integrity
Jan
11
2021
California Housing Legislation Effective in 2021 Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Aug
7
2017
Real Property in Warsaw Under Scrutiny Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Jun
24
2024
The Finality of Arbitration: Supreme Court of South Carolina Curbs Arbitration Panel’s Authority Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
Nov
27
2022
Biden-Harris Administration Announces New Funding for Nationwide Brownfields Technical Assistance and Research Grants and Technical Assistance to Brownfields Providers U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Oct
18
2011
HUD Revamps FHA Lending Requirements Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Aug
28
2017
FinCEN Issues New Geographic Targeting Order for Shell Companies Purchasing High-End Residential Real Estate Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Apr
2
2015
North Carolina State Senate Introduces Bill Granting Tax Credit for "Property" Serving Renewable Energy Efforts Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Dec
22
2013
California Employers: What You Need to Know for 2014 Faegre Drinker
Dec
15
2022
Improving Liquidity Through Real Estate Sale and Leaseback Transactions Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Feb
17
2021
Massachusetts House Bill No. 5250: Revisions to Massachusetts Zoning Sherin and Lodgen LLP
Sep
10
2017
Kentucky Appeals Court Outlines Limitations on Stigma Damages Beveridge & Diamond PC
Sep
12
2019
Mass. Appeals Court Upholds Somerville’s Union Square Revitalization Plan Pierce Atwood LLP
Apr
10
2015
Tenant Can Terminate Lease if Landlord Can’t Deliver Possession Varnum LLP
Jan
4
2023
New York Governor Vetoes Act Prohibiting Establishment and Expansion of For-Profit Hospices Robinson & Cole LLP
Feb
26
2021
Biden Administration Announces Extension of Foreclosure Moratoriums and Forbearance Options Nelson Mullins
Sep
26
2017
El FDEP emite una orden para restaurar los daños estructurales tras el huracán Bilzin Sumberg
Sep
25
2019
Proposed Rule Expands CFIUS Jurisdiction to Real Estate Investments That Pose a National Security Risk; Could Have Major Impacts on Dealmaking Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Jan
13
2023
New Proposed Regulations Would Impact the Determination of Domestically Controlled REIT and Structures for Sovereign Wealth Funds’ US Real Estate Investments Proskauer Rose LLP
Jan
13
2012
Default Judgment Is Not Available In Actions To Quiet Title Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Mar
11
2021
NYDFS Settles with Mortgage Company for Data Breach Hunton Andrews Kurth
Oct
10
2017
Louisiana Lawyers Answer the Call for Puerto Rico With “Disaster Legal Hotline” for Hurricane Victims Jones Walker LLP
 

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