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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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2020
Not Your Grandfather’s Nonconforming Structure: Mass. Appeals Court Clarifies Deadrick Decision, Discusses Difference Between Increasing an Existing Nonconformity and Creating a New One Pierce Atwood LLP
Aug
1
2013
Medical Office Space and Repurposing (but this time, it’s not what you think) Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
May
8
2019
Zoning Appeals Law Update: Miami PZAB Applies Incorrect Waiver Standard Bilzin Sumberg
Mar
2
2011
Army Corps of Engineers Proposes New, Reissued, and Modified Nationwide Permits Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
May
1
2017
Tax: Amendments to Library TIF Legislation Dickinson Wright PLLC
Jan
9
2015
Determining how to structure your family farm business, P.2 McBrayer, McGinnis, Leslie and Kirkland, PLLC
Aug
8
2013
New Jersey Governor Signs Automatic Variance Bill For Sandy Rebuilding Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla, P.C.
May
17
2017
Foreclosure an Effective Method to Recoup Unpaid Condo Assessments Stark & Stark
Mar
15
2024
Florida Legislature Enacts Overhaul: CB/HB 7073 Property Tax Exemptions Explained Nelson Mullins
Sep
21
2020
Maine Law Court Restricts Use of Easements for Development Permits Pierce Atwood LLP
Aug
22
2013
Assembly Bill 116, Extending Life of Subdivision Maps, Signed by the California Governor Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Apr
18
2011
Data Shows Deutsche Bank Was Key patron of Questionable Mortgage Lenders - Senate Report Reveals More of Bank's Toxic Deals Center for Public Integrity
Jun
4
2017
Mortgage broker remuneration reforms – what you need to know K&L Gates
Mar
27
2024
Treasurer’s Payment Mistake Requires Defense Coverage Under Property Association’s D&O Policy Hunton Andrews Kurth
Jun
25
2019
Increases in Transfer Tax Rates for New York City Properties Sills Cummis & Gross P.C.
Jun
14
2017
Beware the Public Trust: New York’s Highest Court Stops Retail Expansion On Citi Field’s Parking Lot Under Public Trust Doctrine Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Feb
17
2015
North Carolina Court of Appeals Addresses "Offset" Defense In Loan Deficiency Claims, the Ownership Element of Trespass Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Jul
21
2022
Real Estate Finance: Holdbacks in a Post COVID Environment Nelson Mullins
Sep
18
2013
Putting the Canadian-U.S. LLC (Limited Liability Company) Debate to Rest Altro LLP
Jul
10
2019
FCC Proposes New Rules to Govern Communications, Video, and Broadband Services at Multiple Tenant Buildings Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Jun
22
2011
Corps Drops Appeal Over Wetlands Rules Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Jun
27
2017
The Supreme Court Makes a Mess of Takings Law Beveridge & Diamond PC
Apr
14
2024
New Court Ruling Pokes Holes in Contractual Limitation of Liability Language in Commercial Leases Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Nov
19
2020
Extension of Affordable Housing Controls Considered by New Jersey Senate Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla, P.C.
Oct
7
2013
Pop-Ups and Kiosks, and Carts – Oh My! Specialty Leases Take Shopping Centers by Storm von Briesen & Roper, s.c.
Apr
23
2024
Will Apartments Solve Housing scarcity? Goulston & Storrs
Mar
5
2015
Zombie Properties May Haunt Lenders in Wisconsin Foreclosures von Briesen & Roper, s.c.
Dec
9
2020
Eviction Moratoriums—A Light at the End of the Tunnel? It Depends Strassburger McKenna Gutnick & Gefsky
 
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