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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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Jun
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2021
For Finance Lenders, The Times They Are A-Changing Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Apr
18
2014
Miami Proactively Seeking Medical Tourism Bilzin Sumberg
Dec
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2019
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Jun
14
2012
Supreme Court Holds that Free and Clear Sale Plan Cannot be Confirmed Without Preserving Secured Creditor's Credit Bidding Rights Greenberg Traurig, LLP
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20
2015
Notice Requirements for Protection of Tenants in Foreclosure Actions Session Law 2015-178 Poyner Spruill LLP
Jun
16
2021
CFPB Issues Mortgage Servicing FAQs Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
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30
2014
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Oct
9
2015
CFPB Publishes Bulletin on Respa Compliance and Marketing Services Agreements Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Jun
29
2021
Biden Administration Continues Fair Lending Efforts as HUD Announces Proposal to Restore the Discriminatory Effects Rule Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
May
13
2014
Tennessee Limits Employers’ Access to Private Social Media Accounts of Employees, Job Applicants Jackson Lewis P.C.
Apr
10
2018
Best Practices For Homeowner Association Directors and Boards Ward and Smith, P.A.
Jan
22
2020
Final Regulations on Opportunity Zones Proskauer Rose LLP
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25
2012
Beware of Cell Tower “Lease Optimization” Varnum LLP
Apr
17
2023
Preserve Your Claims by Preserving the Evidence Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
Jul
7
2021
Suffolk County Fair Housing Task Force Recommends Amendments to County Human Rights Law Jackson Lewis P.C.
May
4
2018
SDNY Confirms Contractual Limits of Trustee's Duties Katten
Aug
9
2012
Florida Property Tax Notices Coming This Month…Is Yours Too High? Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor & Reed, P.A.
Oct
30
2015
New Flexibility for Joint Ventures Using Tax-Exempt Bond-Financed Property Proskauer Rose LLP
Apr
25
2023
Workouts and Remediation of Student Housing Project Bonds Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Jun
11
2014
California Documentary Transfer Tax: Separate Unrecorded Statement of Tax No Longer Allowed After December 31, 2014 Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Feb
12
2020
Newly Expanded CFIUS Jurisdiction Mintz
Aug
23
2012
Michigan’s Homestead-Exemption Law for Bankruptcy Debtors Upheld Varnum LLP
Nov
22
2015
Taxpayers Stand to Lose Under Chicago’s Lease Tax VDA Offer McDermott Will & Emery
May
7
2023
CFPB Issues Guidance to Protect Homeowners from Zombie Mortgages Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Jun
20
2014
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Jun
7
2018
CFPB expected to dismiss PHH case Ballard Spahr LLP
 

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