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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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Sep
23
2019
Statewide Residential Rent Control Passed In California Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Dec
29
2022
FHA Extends Partial Waiver of Face-to-Face Meeting Requirement Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
Jan
20
2012
Damage Caused By Water-Borne Debris Beyond Flood and Wave Exclusion in Homeowner's Policy Williams Kastner
Mar
4
2021
Guide to the New 2021 ALTA/NSPS Land Title Survey Standards Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Feb
9
2014
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Issues Risk Alert on Investment Advisers’ Due Diligence Processes for Selecting Alternative Investments Katten
Jan
10
2023
And Environmental Justice for All? Mass. High Court Clarifies Application of EJ Policy Pierce Atwood LLP
Feb
20
2012
Contractual Good Faith: Having Rights Doesn't Necessarily Mean You Can Use Them Much Shelist, P.C.
Feb
12
2018
Saxton v. FHFA - Have FHFA and the Treasury Exceeded Their Limited Authority under HERA? Yale Law School
Feb
20
2014
A New Beginning for Real Estate Closings McBrayer, McGinnis, Leslie and Kirkland, PLLC
Mar
13
2012
Will a Moratorium on Confined Animal Feeding Operations Ever Get Through the Indiana General Assembly? Northeastern University School of Law
Apr
1
2021
New Code of Conduct for Leasing of Retail Premises in Singapore K&L Gates
Mar
3
2014
So You Want To Be Named As A Loss Payee? When To Tell your Landlord "No Means No" von Briesen & Roper, s.c.
Feb
6
2023
New and Greener ROZ Template Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Jan
11
2018
January 11, 2018 - Will Your Municipality Be Liable For Its Failure To Conduct Mandatory Property Inspections? Murtha Cullina
Jul
23
2015
West Virginia Homeowners Associations Found to be Debt Collectors Steptoe & Johnson PLLC
Mar
14
2014
Interior’s Carcieri Opinion Means More Diligence for Trust Land Development Projects Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Feb
16
2023
Michigan’s Wetlands: What Land Developers and Landowners Need to Know Varnum LLP
Jan
30
2018
Update: Judge Denies Relator’s Attempt to Freeze Nursing Home’s Assets Pending Appeal McDermott Will & Emery
Aug
6
2015
Disparate Impact Claims Fair Game under the Fair Housing Act McBrayer, McGinnis, Leslie and Kirkland, PLLC
May
6
2021
CFPB Reiterates Focus on Mortgage Industry COVID-19 Response, Highlights Fair Servicing Concerns Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Mar
24
2014
Proper Definition Of The Relevant Property Leads to a $7 Million Award In a Takings Case Arising From Denial of A Wetlands Fill Permit Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Nov
15
2019
Government Contracts Regulatory and Legislative Update November 2019 Faegre Drinker
Feb
28
2023
The New York City Council Sets its Sights on Non-Profit Housing Ownership Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Apr
21
2012
Michigan Court of Appeals Rules Lenders May Not Foreclose a Mortgage by Advertisement While Filing Suit Against Guarantors Varnum LLP
Aug
25
2015
New Legislation Authorizes 'Bonding Over' Mechanics’ Liens for the First Time in Illinois Barnes & Thornburg LLP
May
18
2021
Virginia to Ban Expanded Polystyrene Take-out Containers Starting in 2023, Commits to Phasing Out Single-Use Plastics at State Agencies Keller and Heckman LLP
Apr
9
2014
Recently Unveiled “HOME Forward” Housing Act May Signal the End of Fannie and Freddie Bilzin Sumberg
Dec
5
2019
What are the consequences of taking money from a rent deposit if the tenant company is in administration? Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
 

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