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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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Feb
17
2011
Fiscal Uncertainty and Recession Could Result in More Property Tax Appeals (NC) Poyner Spruill LLP
Jul
26
2022
Environmental Justice Update: Chicago Forcing Facility Relocation to Environmental Justice Area Puts Federal HUD Funding at Issue ArentFox Schiff LLP
Sep
4
2020
COVID-19 Update: CDC Order Temporarily Halts Residential Evictions Nationwide until December 31, 2020 Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Jun
1
2017
Florida Sales Tax on Commercial Rents Reduced Bilzin Sumberg
Feb
3
2015
Justice Department’s Kleptocracy Forfeiture Action Against Real Estate Allegedly Linked to Honduran Bribery Scheme Underscores U.S. Government’s Expansive Jurisdiction Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Aug
5
2013
Ruling On Leased Slots Opens Door To On-Reservation Personal Property Taxes Dickinson Wright PLLC
Apr
18
2024
Permitting Reform and Responsible Mining: Q&A with IRMA’s Kristi Disney Bruckner Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Mar
19
2011
The Incredible Bulk: Has the Florida Condo Bulk Buyer Bill Lived up to the Hype? Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Aug
5
2022
4th Circuit: Borrower Must Return Loan Proceeds After Rescission Despite Lender’s Failure to Meet TILA Requirements Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Jun
12
2017
California Court Of Appeal Rejects Citizens Group Nuisance Case Regarding Sea Lion Stench Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Aug
16
2013
What To Know About Florida's New Fast-Track Foreclosure Law Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Apr
10
2011
EPA Awards Five Grants to Combat Bed Bugs U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Oct
1
2020
New Order Extends Suspension of Certain CEQA Filing and Noticing Requirements Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Jun
27
2017
Pennsylvania Ruling Bolsters Protection of Public Natural Resources Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
Feb
25
2015
Texas Court Declines to Address Trespass Issue in Wastewater Migration Case Steptoe & Johnson PLLC
Aug
23
2013
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) Revises Guidance on Commercial Real Estate Lending Katten
May
5
2011
Office Leasing in 2011: Signs of Life in Commercial Real Estate Much Shelist, P.C.
Sep
12
2022
Ready for Launch (Finally): Settlement Paves the Way for EB-5 Financing Options Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
Oct
21
2020
Ohio Land Professional Licensing Deadline is December 1 Steptoe & Johnson PLLC
Jul
19
2017
La Presencia De México En Miami Llegó Para Quedarse Bilzin Sumberg
Jul
10
2019
Congress Passes Legislation Addressing VA Refinance Loan Issues Ballard Spahr LLP
Mar
5
2015
Disclosures Landlords Must Make in Kentucky McBrayer, McGinnis, Leslie and Kirkland, PLLC
Sep
11
2013
North Carolina Supreme Court Limits Private Lawsuits for Sedimentation Violations Poyner Spruill LLP
May
21
2024
Taxation of Foreign Currency Transactions Part II: Gains, Losses, Personal Transactions, and Electing Out of Section 988 ASKramer Law
Sep
26
2022
Door Closes On UK Rent Arrears Scheme Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Nov
13
2020
California Voters Narrowly Reject Split-Roll Initiative, but Approve Changes to Property Tax Exemptions; San Francisco Voters Approve Higher Taxes on Businesses Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Aug
4
2017
Even Languorous Litigation Must Abide Rule 12(B)(6), Chancery Court Holds K&L Gates
Oct
1
2013
Pooled Units and the Implied Surface Easement Bracewell LLP
 

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