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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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May
22
2014
Proposed Regulations Clarify Definition of “Real Property” for Real Estate Investment Trusts McDermott Will & Emery
Dec
3
2015
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Jul
28
2021
To Meet Zoning Frontage Requirement, “Linear Feet” Need Not be in a Straight Line Pierce Atwood LLP
Jun
11
2014
Leading Markets Index Shows 56 Metros at or Above Normal Levels in June Bilzin Sumberg
Dec
18
2015
California Supreme Court Rejects Mandatory "Reverse CEQA" Analysis Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Aug
8
2021
Withdrawal Liability – Real Property Presumed a Trade or Business Jackson Lewis P.C.
Aug
28
2012
Possible Law Requiring Nonprofit Land Conservancies to Pay Property Taxes is a Bad idea Varnum LLP
Jun
21
2014
SB 440, Chapter 2014-14 of Florida Laws, Nonresidential Condominium Bill Becomes Law Bilzin Sumberg
Jan
11
2016
CFPB Issues Letter on TRID Enforcement and Liability: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Aug
25
2021
GRATS — Grantor Retained Annuity Trusts Wiggin and Dana LLP
Jul
16
2018
A New Opportunity for Deferring and Reducing Capital Gains While Making Attractive Investments in America’s Distressed Areas Sills Cummis & Gross P.C.
Jul
1
2014
Office of Inspector General (OIG) Urges Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) To Sue Over Force-Placed Insurance Bilzin Sumberg
Sep
7
2021
Public Improvement Districts Texas Legislative Update Winstead
Jul
11
2023
Global Banking Regulators Plan to Develop Short-Term Climate Scenarios Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Oct
8
2012
Retail Did You Know? Court of Appeals Expands Inducement for Patent Infringeme​nt Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Feb
23
2016
UK Planning and Housing Bill 2015 – Starter Homes Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Sep
21
2021
Mass. High Court: Three-Year Clock for Wetlands Protection Act Enforcement Actions Re-Starts With Every Sale of Property Pierce Atwood LLP
Jul
19
2023
First Criminal Syndicated Conservation Easement Trial Begins this Week Polsinelli PC
Nov
1
2012
What Should Waterfront Property Owners Know About Plats? Varnum LLP
Mar
25
2020
Stay-At-Home and Safer At Home Orders Impose Restrictions on Residential Landlords and Rental Property Managers Davis|Kuelthau, s.c.
Sep
10
2018
Part 17 of “The Restricting Covenant” Series: Realtors, Real Estate Agents, and Restrictive Covenants Faegre Drinker
Jul
29
2014
Collateral Estoppel Bars Copy-Cat Environmental Plaintiff in New Case After Judgment Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Mar
10
2016
Aesthetics and Land Use Regulations in North Carolina Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Nov
19
2012
A Fool With a Pen Makes Good Law Dickinson Wright PLLC
Oct
4
2018
IRS Issues Proposed Regulations Providing Clarity for REIT Investors Bracewell LLP
Mar
25
2016
Texas Oncur Buyout Approved – With Reservations Lewis Roca Rothgerber LLP
Oct
28
2021
The Road Ahead – Four (4) “Mile Markers” to Watch in the Year Ahead Stark & Stark
Aug
8
2023
The Significance of Title Insurance in Real Estate Stark & Stark
 

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