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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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Dec
3
2021
Under the Sea: Congress Amends OCSLA to Provide for Offshore CCS Bracewell LLP
Apr
8
2016
Percentage Rent: How Calculated and When to Collect Sherin and Lodgen LLP
Apr
7
2020
Lender Perspectives: UK Coronavirus Act 2020, Impact on LMA Real Estate Form Facility Agreement Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Jan
6
2013
Healthcare Real Estate and the Affordable Care Act Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Aug
1
2023
Fine Art in Not-So-Fine Weather Hunton Andrews Kurth
Oct
24
2018
FTC Settles Fair Credit Reporting Act Action with Tenant Background Screening Company Faegre Drinker
Dec
17
2021
CFPB Published Reg. Z Amendments to Facilitate Libor Transition Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Apr
20
2016
San Francisco Mandates Solar Power on New Buildings Holland & Hart LLP
Mar
27
2020
COVID-19: City of Portland, Maine Issues Stay at Home Emergency Order Pierce Atwood LLP
Sep
15
2014
Banks May Be Required to Increase Reserves Bilzin Sumberg
Jan
17
2013
Lozman v. Riviera Beach: When is a floating structure a “vessel”? Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Aug
10
2023
UK Real Estate Ownership and The Implications of The Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act K&L Gates
Jan
6
2022
Selling a Building That Has a Cell Antenna Lease: How to Proceed Varnum LLP
May
9
2016
Senate Republicans Hope ‘Third Time is Charm’ on Energy-Water Bill; House Budget Unlikely, Will Start Appropriations Floor Consideration After May 15 Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Apr
14
2020
New IRS Guidance on Forbearances and Modifications of Mortgage Loans as a Result of COVID-19 Katten
Feb
1
2013
Baby It’s Cold Outside – and Slippery, Too! Property Owners - Beware! Dickinson Wright PLLC
Aug
24
2023
Building Distinction in Architectural Trade Dress Foley & Lardner LLP
Jan
21
2022
In the Wake of the Surfside Tragedy Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Issue “Temporary” Requirements for Condominiums and Cooperatives Stark & Stark
May
28
2016
Good News on “Bad Boy” Guarantees – IRS Reverts to Prior Position in Recent Legal Advice Memorandum Mintz
Apr
17
2020
COVID-19 Update: Banking Agencies Issue Temporary Deferral of Appraisals and Evaluations for Real Estate Transactions Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Feb
13
2013
Restrictive Covenants and Home Businesses (or Working from Home) Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Sep
5
2023
NY AG and FTC Secure $1.6m from Online Apartment Finder for Allegedly Defrauding Renters Hinch Newman LLP
Dec
7
2018
Lenders’ Discretion and the Limitation of the Braganza Duty Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Feb
4
2022
Community Association Building Blocks: Community Drainage and Flooding and Architectural Control Parameters Ward and Smith, P.A.
Jun
14
2016
Death of Defendant During Pendency of Connecticut Foreclosure Action – Appellate Case Update Murtha Cullina
Apr
21
2020
COVID-19: Massachusetts Legislature Stays Evictions and Foreclosures Pierce Atwood LLP
Oct
8
2014
St. Jude’s Church Loses Historic Designation Bilzin Sumberg
Mar
4
2013
Are You Paying Too Much For Property Taxes? Lewis Roca Rothgerber LLP
 

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