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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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Apr
17
2013
Company Owners Personally Liable for $3.1 Million Withdrawal Liability Assessment — Owners’ Lease of Commercial Property to Company Constituted “Trade or Business” McDermott Will & Emery
May
15
2020
Part One: To Pay, or Not to Pay (Rent) – California Landlord-Tenant Regulations During COVID-19 Mintz
Oct
25
2016
Immediate Action Required: California Commercial Landlords Must Provide Accessibility Disclosures During Lease Negotiations Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
May
3
2022
In re PWM Property Management: Creditors’ and Equity Holder’s Attempt to File and Solicit Competing Plan During Exclusivity Period Denied Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Apr
25
2013
Pennsylvania Court Holds Application of Biosolids To Be Protected Farming Activity Beveridge & Diamond PC
May
22
2020
In Massachusetts, Defendant Who Prevails on Special Motion to Dismiss Lis Pendens Case Can Recover Appellate Attorneys’ Fees Pierce Atwood LLP
Nov
17
2016
New Market Tax Credit Allocations Announced Jones Walker LLP
May
20
2022
Allegheny County Property Tax Bills Could Be Lowered Based on Recent Consent Order Strassburger McKenna Gutnick & Gefsky
May
1
2013
Before This Corporation Was Formed, This Contract Knew It Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
May
29
2009
Illinois Supreme Court Extends a Helping Hand to Homeowners and Lenders Much Shelist, P.C.
Dec
8
2016
Reaction to Uncertainty in Affordable Housing Industry Brought on by Trump Election Katten
Jan
4
2024
The Supreme Court’s Decision in County of Maui v. Hawai’i Wildlife Fund – The Answer to the Yes or No Question is Maybe Mintz
May
13
2013
Medical Office Building (MOB) Financing Pointers Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Jun
30
2009
1031 Exchanges: Protecting Your Sale Proceeds from a Qualified Intermediary's Creditors Much Shelist, P.C.
Jan
6
2017
Serial Filers: Lenders And Lessors Given A New Remedy Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Jan
10
2024
Trust Us, We’re the Government: Interior Promises Final Land-into-Trust Rule Will Benefit Tribes Nelson Mullins
May
22
2013
Massachusetts Commercial Leasing: Lessons Learned from 275 Washington Street Corp. Decisions Raymond Law Group LLC
Jun
9
2020
AB 2501 – COVID-19 Homeowner, Tenant, and Consumer Relief Law of 2020 Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Jan
27
2017
Will The Bureau Of Real Estate Get A Promotion? Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Nov
17
2014
Ownership of Michigan Islands Varnum LLP
May
30
2013
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Amends Ability-To-Repay Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Jun
16
2020
Historical Photographs Establish Backlot Owner's Right to Install a Dock Varnum LLP
Feb
9
2017
Fallout from Home Mortgage Crisis: Lender Claims Property Appraisers Are Liable for Lost Collateral Value Faegre Drinker
Jan
29
2024
Who Owns It Anyway . . .? Implications of the Beneficial Ownership Requirements Under the Corporate Transparency Act on Structuring Real Estate Transactions Hunton Andrews Kurth
Nov
25
2014
Canadian Real Estate Brokerage Expands U.S. Reach Through South Florida Purchases Bilzin Sumberg
Jun
11
2013
Renovate or Build New? Factors Healthcare Providers Need to Consider Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Jun
25
2020
Further Measures to Protect UK Commercial Tenants Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Jun
18
2010
Wrongful Foreclosure – Verbal Assurance that Foreclosure Sale Will be Postponed May be Enforceable - Deliberate and Effective External and Internal Communication is Critical Holme Roberts & Owen LLP
 

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