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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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Custom text Organization
Oct
16
2017
Your Foreclosure Hearing Just Got More Crowded Ward and Smith, P.A.
Aug
23
2019
Treatment Of Models Under HUD's Proposed Disparate Impact Rule: Our Thoughts Ballard Spahr LLP
Dec
30
2013
California Employers: What You Need to Know for 2014 – Everything Else Faegre Drinker
May
21
2015
Wells Fargo Accused of Profiting from Foreclosure Relief Program Bilzin Sumberg
Nov
22
2011
EPA Proposes Changes to Underground Storage Tank Regulations Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP
Feb
8
2021
Real Estate Debt and the UK Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 – The Moratorium Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Jul
23
2024
Treasury Department Moves to Expand CFIUS’s Real Estate Jurisdiction & Implement China-Bound Tech Investment Restrictions Proskauer Rose LLP
Jan
13
2023
New Tax Tribunal Ruling on Change-of-Residency Challenges Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
Jan
14
2014
Kiosk Licenses — Open Air Freedom? von Briesen & Roper, s.c.
Dec
28
2011
Payoff Statements and Short-Pay Statements Poyner Spruill LLP
Feb
18
2021
Delaware Court of Chancery Finds Oral Agreement to Form a Joint Venture Enforceable K&L Gates
Sep
20
2019
UPDATE: Mass. High Court Takes Plaintiff Out of Game, Upholds Boston’s Transfer to Red Sox of Easement Rights Next to Fenway Park Pierce Atwood LLP
Jan
30
2023
Court Affirms Judgment In Divorce Proceeding That Property Was Community Even Though It Was Purchased With Trust Assets Winstead
Jan
30
2014
Citing To Precedent, Nevada Federal Court Rejects FLSA (Fair Labor Standards Act) Tip Claim Asserted By Workers Receiving Minimum Wage Jackson Lewis P.C.
Feb
8
2023
THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO HMMMM! CFPB Circulated An Advisory Opinion On Digital Mortgage Comparison-Shopping Platforms Troutman Amin, LLP
Feb
12
2018
Saxton v. FHFA - Have FHFA and the Treasury Exceeded Their Limited Authority under HERA? Yale Law School
Mar
1
2012
Tax-Exempt Financing Opportunity for Private Sector Borrowers (Hurricane Ike Bonds) Bracewell LLP
Oct
10
2019
Treasury Identifies Oil and Gas, Petrochemical, Maritime, Financial Services, and Real Estate as CFIUS Focus Areas Jones Walker LLP
Feb
17
2023
CFPB’s RESPA Advisory Addresses Digital Mortgage Comparison-Shopping Platforms, Lead Generation Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Feb
22
2014
Must a Retail Business Allow an Individual to use its Property to Solicit Signatures for Elective Office? Sherin and Lodgen LLP
Mar
15
2012
New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection - NJDEP Rule Provides Relief from Environmental Regulatory Requirements Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Jan
11
2018
January 11, 2018 - Will Your Municipality Be Liable For Its Failure To Conduct Mandatory Property Inspections? Murtha Cullina
Mar
3
2023
Europe: Is Eltif 2.0 a More Viable Structure for Long-Term Investment in the EU? K&L Gates
Jul
23
2015
West Virginia Homeowners Associations Found to be Debt Collectors Steptoe & Johnson PLLC
Jan
30
2018
Update: Judge Denies Relator’s Attempt to Freeze Nursing Home’s Assets Pending Appeal McDermott Will & Emery
Oct
31
2019
Court Finds Animals Incapable of Vandalism or Malicious Mischief for Insurance Purposes (and all other purposes, too) Carlton Fields
Mar
16
2023
Ripple Effect of Recent Bank Insolvencies on Real Estate Foley & Lardner LLP
Mar
18
2014
Mortgagees Beware! – The Massachusetts Obsolete Mortgages Statute Revisited Sherin and Lodgen LLP
 

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