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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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2019
Congress Passes Legislation Addressing VA Refinance Loan Issues Ballard Spahr LLP
Sep
13
2013
Johnson v. Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Feb
11
2015
Massachusetts: A Municipal Ordinance Requiring Registration and Maintenance of Vacant or Foreclosed Properties Preempted under Chapter 21E Beveridge & Diamond PC
Jun
13
2011
CERCLA Updates Greenberg Traurig, LLP
May
8
2024
What the Sheetz: Where California Development Impact Fees Stand Following Recent Supreme Court Decision Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton 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
Jun
21
2017
Municipalities Are Now Included In PURA Small Cell Cases Before Public Utilities Regulatory Authority Murtha Cullina
Oct
4
2013
Maryland Legislature Fixes Problems Left Over From 2012 Indemnity Deed of Trust (IDOT) Legislation Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Feb
23
2015
Fraud Verdict Against Countrywide & Bank of America Upheld Bilzin Sumberg
Jul
7
2011
Mortgage Servicing Standards at the Top of Consumer Agency's Agenda Center for Public Integrity
May
20
2024
New Environment and Planning Act (Omgevingswet)’s ‘Participation Requirement’ Does Not Imply Consensus, Confirms Recent Case Law Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Dec
4
2020
Budget Ratification: Understanding the Ghost of Budget's PAST When Preparing for the Future Ward and Smith, P.A.
Oct
17
2013
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Recent Developments: October 7, 2013 – October 10, 2013 Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Mar
3
2015
Wisconsin Supreme Court Exempts Certain Policies from the Notice/Prejudice Statutes Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
May
30
2024
Impact of Revised FHA Handbook on Reverse Mortgage Servicers Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
Aug
1
2017
Amazon Isn’t Killing Shopping Centers, Just Like Video Didn’t Kill Radio Stars Stark & Stark
Aug
15
2019
HUD Throws in the Towel on Down Payment Assistance Revisions Ballard Spahr LLP
Nov
1
2013
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Recent Developments: October 21, 2013 - October 25, 2013 Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Mar
16
2015
Bank of America’s Inconsistent Positions re: Faulty Residential Mortgage-backed Securities Bilzin Sumberg
Aug
21
2011
The Basics of Hotel Security - The Same, But Different Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Jun
10
2024
Colorado is Thinking Creatively on Ways to Address its Workforce Housing Crisis Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Jan
11
2021
COVID-19 Update: Governor Cuomo Extends Residential Eviction and Foreclosure Moratorium Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Oct
12
2022
The Top 10 Do’s and Don’ts of Selling a Cell Lease Varnum LLP
Aug
18
2017
New Requirements for Planned Developments in Chicago Foley & Lardner LLP
Nov
12
2013
Storm Water Flooding as a Continuing Nuisance in Pennsylvania Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Mar
27
2015
The Need-to-Knows of Living in a Condominium Development – Part One: The Public Offering Statement Stark & Stark
Sep
16
2011
Lenders and Loan Servicers Take Note: You Must Now Secure and Maintain Vacant Buildings Under New Chicago Ordinance Much Shelist, P.C.
Jan
26
2021
Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 Amends Bankruptcy Code Part 1: Amendments Clarifying Debtors’ Rights to Other Pandemic Relief Mintz
 

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