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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
28
2015
Life Cycle of a Revaluation (And What You Need to Know About It) Stark & Stark
Jun
11
2014
Leading Markets Index Shows 56 Metros at or Above Normal Levels in June Bilzin Sumberg
Aug
28
2012
Possible Law Requiring Nonprofit Land Conservancies to Pay Property Taxes is a Bad idea Varnum LLP
Mar
28
2018
Real Estate Tax Help for Vertical Subdivisions Bilzin Sumberg
Jun
21
2014
SB 440, Chapter 2014-14 of Florida Laws, Nonresidential Condominium Bill Becomes Law Bilzin Sumberg
Apr
20
2018
Ninth Circuit Holds National Park Service Has the Authority to Regulate Navigable Waters in Alaska’s National Parks and Prohibit the Use of Hovercraft (Again) Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Oct
25
2015
European Union Succession Regulation Goes Into Effect ArentFox Schiff LLP
Aug
6
2021
A Return from the Edge? A New Policy Statement from the UK Government on Commercial Rent Debts Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Jun
9
2023
Offshore Wind Litigation: Court Declines to Halt Vineyard Wind Construction Bracewell LLP
Jul
1
2014
Office of Inspector General (OIG) Urges Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) To Sue Over Force-Placed Insurance Bilzin Sumberg
Oct
8
2012
Retail Did You Know? Court of Appeals Expands Inducement for Patent Infringeme​nt Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Nov
13
2015
Titanic struggle, North Carolina business, lawyers, history — epic telling of long ago story Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard, LLP
Aug
24
2021
South Carolina Ruling Gives Lenders Flexibility on When to Foreclose in Face of Borrower Litigation Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
Jun
14
2023
PACT Flood Hazard & Stormwater Management Rules Update Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla, P.C.
Nov
1
2012
What Should Waterfront Property Owners Know About Plats? Varnum LLP
Jun
1
2018
5Pointz and the Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990 Mintz
Dec
8
2015
Water and Land Part 1 re: North Carolina v. Alcoa Power Generating Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Sep
7
2021
COVID-19 Update: New York Governor Signs New Moratorium Effective until January 15, 2022 Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Jun
22
2023
Not a Covered CFIUS Transaction: Fufeng Group Acquisition of Real Property Near Grand Forks, North Dakota Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Jul
29
2014
Collateral Estoppel Bars Copy-Cat Environmental Plaintiff in New Case After Judgment Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Nov
19
2012
A Fool With a Pen Makes Good Law Dickinson Wright PLLC
Jun
17
2018
Blind Pool Fund V. Pledge Fund ArentFox Schiff LLP
Dec
23
2015
New Uncapping Exemption for Ladybird Transfers Varnum LLP
Sep
20
2021
New York State Revises Solar and Wind Property Tax Calculator Pierce Atwood LLP
Mar
23
2020
Update for Mortgage Lender Operations in California Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Jul
3
2023
Rhode Island Affirms The Principle That Sureties Must be Provided Notice of Default Before They Can be Held Liable for Principal’s Default Robinson & Cole LLP
Dec
1
2012
Division of Tax Appeals Finds Taxpayers Established Change in Domicile from New York City to the Hamptons McDermott Will & Emery
Jan
17
2016
North Carolina Supreme Court Rejects Claims against Lender over Failed Real Estate Development Poyner Spruill LLP
 
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