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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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Nov
13
2019
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Bankruptcy Preemption May Bar FDCPA and FCCPA Claims Either Way Carlton Fields
Mar
8
2023
Ground Lease Risks in Municipal Bond Projects ArentFox Schiff LLP
Jan
11
2018
January 11, 2018 - Will Your Municipality Be Liable For Its Failure To Conduct Mandatory Property Inspections? Murtha Cullina
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
Jul
23
2015
West Virginia Homeowners Associations Found to be Debt Collectors Steptoe & Johnson PLLC
May
13
2021
New York City Council Passes Tenant Data Privacy Act Hunton Andrews Kurth
Apr
21
2012
Michigan Court of Appeals Rules Lenders May Not Foreclose a Mortgage by Advertisement While Filing Suit Against Guarantors Varnum LLP
Nov
29
2019
Does a company voluntary arrangement permanently vary the terms of a lease? Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Mar
17
2023
Pubs, Contracts and COVID-19: The High Court’s Decision in Laundy v Dyco K&L Gates
Jan
30
2018
Update: Judge Denies Relator’s Attempt to Freeze Nursing Home’s Assets Pending Appeal McDermott Will & Emery
Apr
9
2014
Recently Unveiled “HOME Forward” Housing Act May Signal the End of Fannie and Freddie Bilzin Sumberg
Aug
6
2015
Disparate Impact Claims Fair Game under the Fair Housing Act McBrayer, McGinnis, Leslie and Kirkland, PLLC
May
23
2021
Extended and Expanded: Litigation Streamlining for Environmental Leadership Projects Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Apr
15
2014
No Reasonable Person Would Believe Contract Exclusion Applies to Wrongful Eviction Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP
Aug
25
2015
New Legislation Authorizes 'Bonding Over' Mechanics’ Liens for the First Time in Illinois Barnes & Thornburg LLP
Jun
8
2021
Subtenant Considerations When Subleasing Space Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Jun
6
2012
Repositioning Golf Courses: Alternatives for Redevelopment of Golf Courses Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Jun
21
2021
How COVID Impacted Lease Agreements, Contracts, and Business Interruption Claims Sinayskaya Yuniver, P.C.
Jan
13
2020
Is Finality Still A Requirement For A RLUIPA Action To Be Ripe? Robinson & Cole LLP
Apr
20
2023
IRS Issues Guidance for Developers, Investors Seeking to Qualify for Energy Community Bonus Credits Under Inflation Reduction Act Greenberg Traurig, LLP
May
8
2014
Trails-to-Rails-to-?: The Brandt Case and its Potential Impact on the Nation’s Trails Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Sep
28
2015
Life Cycle of a Revaluation (And What You Need to Know About It) Stark & Stark
Jul
20
2012
Selling Your Business - Retain Your Ability to Regain Control Until You're Fully Paid Williams Kastner
Apr
27
2023
CFPB Issues Guidance to Lenders and Collectors on So-Called Zombie Second Mortgages Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
Mar
28
2018
Real Estate Tax Help for Vertical Subdivisions Bilzin Sumberg
May
19
2014
Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Announces Reversal of Plans to Wind Down Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac 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
Jun
4
2014
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Issues Another Significant Ruling on Spin-off of Real Estate McDermott Will & Emery
 

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