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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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Aug
5
2013
Healthcare Real Estate – a Boom, a Slow Down, and More…. Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Oct
9
2018
2018 Arizona Case Law Affecting Commercial Real Estate and Lending Ryley Carlock & Applewhite, A Professional Corporation
Mar
6
2011
Witness Says He Rigged Bids in Property Tax Lien Auctions in Maryland Center for Public Integrity
Mar
26
2024
President Biden Announces New Price Fixing “Strike Force”: Government Continues Antitrust Crusade Proskauer Rose LLP
Sep
18
2020
With Retail Bankruptcies on the Rise, Opportunities for Distressed M&A Increase Hunton Andrews Kurth
Jul
5
2022
Hotel Revenues Are "Rents" Under New Michigan Law Miller Canfield
Aug
10
2013
Healthcare Real Estate Development: Sweat the Small Stuff Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
May
9
2017
Landlord Rights and Responsibilities in Commercial Tenant Bankruptcies Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP
Aug
24
2013
Doing The "One-Two" At the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla, P.C.
Jun
20
2019
Victorian Duty Reforms for "Economic Entitlements" – They are not Limited to Property Development Agreements K&L Gates
Apr
29
2011
EPA and Corps Issue Draft Guidance on Waterways and Wetlands That Fall Under Federal Jurisdiction as Part of Obama Administration’s Just Released Clean Water Framework Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
May
26
2017
Dubai: Memoranda of Understanding to Foster Institutional Real Estate Investment Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Oct
19
2020
Real Estate Development in the Time of Coronavirus: Massachusetts – Update 10/19/2020 Pierce Atwood LLP
Jul
29
2022
New Bill Will Tax Real Estate “Promote” as Carried Interest Subject to Three-Year Holding Period Goulston & Storrs
Sep
10
2013
New Disclosure Guidance for Non-Traded Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor & Reed, P.A.
Jul
2
2019
Court Of Chancery Grants Summary Judgment For Dissolution Of Limited Liability Company Where Two Minority Members Failed To Purchase The Majority Member’s Limited Liability Interest, As Required By The Operating Agreement K&L Gates
Jun
3
2011
China’s NDRC Delegates Powers to Lower Levels to Approve Overseas Investment Projects Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Jun
7
2017
Why Assumption Clauses in Amendments Matter von Briesen & Roper, s.c.
Feb
9
2015
California Court Decision Confirms Shopping Center's Right To Limit Expressive Activity to Designated Areas Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Nov
12
2020
Real Estate Employers Can Expect Uncertainty Following Election 2020 Jackson Lewis P.C.
Aug
9
2022
Developments in Employee Screening for Real Estate Industry Jackson Lewis P.C.
Sep
30
2013
Ninth Circuit Holds that a Properly Structured Voluntary Rental Program Offering Does Not Convert Hotel Condominium Units into Securities Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Jul
18
2019
U.S. Supreme Court Overturns State-Litigation Requirement For Takings Claims, Providing Landowners With A Direct Path To Federal Court Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Jul
2
2011
Finance : Financial Reform Watch “Go tell a Republican,” Rep. Frank says to complaints that Congress has failed to curb foreclosures Center for Public Integrity
May
6
2024
The Escalating Threat of Mortgage Fraud Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
Feb
23
2015
Ohio Supreme Court Invalidates Local Fracking Restrictions ArentFox Schiff LLP
Jul
30
2019
Shall We Cultivate Our Garden? Pierce Atwood LLP
May
15
2024
Florida’s Live Local Act Middle-Income Affordable Housing Exemption Has 2-Year No-Exemption Exit Trap Greenberg Traurig, LLP
 

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