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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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2012
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20
2015
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7
2021
Suffolk County Fair Housing Task Force Recommends Amendments to County Human Rights Law Jackson Lewis P.C.
Apr
29
2014
Best Practices for State Engagement of Private Unclaimed Property Auditors McDermott Will & Emery
Apr
26
2023
Bed Bath & Beyond Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy In the United States Bankruptcy Court District of New Jersey Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla, P.C.
Oct
9
2015
CFPB Publishes Bulletin on Respa Compliance and Marketing Services Agreements Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
May
12
2014
Indian Nations Law Focus: Selected Court Decisions Godfrey & Kahn S.C.
Feb
12
2020
Newly Expanded CFIUS Jurisdiction Mintz
May
9
2023
Australian Federal Budget 2023-2024 - Key Tax Measures and Instant Insights K&L Gates
Apr
10
2018
Best Practices For Homeowner Association Directors and Boards Ward and Smith, P.A.
May
21
2014
Permitted Use Restrictions and Competition Law – When is a Restriction Too Restrictive? Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Feb
26
2020
"Damaged Goods" Not Enough to Sway Third Circuit Court of Appeals Steptoe & Johnson PLLC
Aug
8
2012
Court Confirms That No Statutory or Common Law Landlord's Lien Exists Under Michigan Law Barnes & Thornburg LLP
May
4
2018
SDNY Confirms Contractual Limits of Trustee's Duties Katten
Oct
30
2015
New Flexibility for Joint Ventures Using Tax-Exempt Bond-Financed Property Proskauer Rose LLP
Aug
12
2021
FHA Updates Single Family Policy Handbook 4000.1 Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
Jun
6
2014
Lenders More Likely to Make Jumbo Loans Bilzin Sumberg
Jun
5
2023
Wetlands No More? U.S. Supreme Court Limits Federal Regulation of Wetlands in Sackett v. EPA Decision Foley & Lardner LLP
Nov
22
2015
Taxpayers Stand to Lose Under Chicago’s Lease Tax VDA Offer McDermott Will & Emery
Jun
19
2014
Federal Housing Finance Agency's (FHFA) 2013 Report Shows Record Income for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, But Earnings Are Likely to Fall Bilzin Sumberg
Mar
18
2020
Insurance Coverage for Coronavirus (COVID-19) Keller and Heckman LLP
Jun
12
2023
Massachusetts SJC rules in favor of Hume Lake Christian Camp zoning appeal under the Dover Amendment Sherin and Lodgen LLP
Sep
17
2012
Horse Tracks as Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations? Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
Jun
7
2018
CFPB expected to dismiss PHH case Ballard Spahr LLP
Dec
18
2015
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Jun
17
2023
Environmental Essentials Webinar Series – Sackett II/WOTUS IX: Implementation of the Supreme Court’s Interpretation of “Waters of the US” Under the Clean Water Act [Video] Bracewell LLP
Sep
29
2012
Update: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Exempt from Michigan Real Estate Transfer Tax Varnum LLP
Jan
6
2016
New PATH Act Changes Rules for Foreign Investment in US Real Estate and for REITs re: Real Estate Investment Trust Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
 

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