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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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Nov
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2020
Michigan’s Receivership Act: No Longer Just for Commercial Real Estate Miller Canfield
Mar
3
2015
MetLife Home Loans LLC Agrees to Pay U.S. Government $123.5 Million for Alleged Unqualified Government-Backed Mortgages Tycko & Zavareei LLP
Sep
28
2022
The House We Bought Has Undisclosed Defects – Now What? Norris McLaughlin P.A.
Jul
19
2011
Is this a Security? Tamer Salameh, et al, Plaintiffs v. Tarsadia Hotels Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Jul
24
2019
Maryland High Court Finds State Authority to Approve Renewable Energy Projects Preempts Local Zoning Authority Beveridge & Diamond PC
Oct
7
2022
USFWS Tries Again to Make Eagle Take Permitting Process Work for Stakeholders and Wildlife Hunton Andrews Kurth
Oct
29
2013
South Carolina High Court Finds Odors and Intangibles Do Not Constitute Trespass Beveridge & Diamond PC
Aug
22
2017
Faceoff with Federal Government Possibly Looming Following California Supreme Court CEQA Ruling; Cal High Speed Rail Project Also Vulnerable Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Dec
9
2020
Developers Beware – Restrictive Covenants Update K&L Gates
Aug
12
2011
Avoid Unnecessary Real Property Taxes Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
Mar
30
2015
North Carolina Court of Appeals Reminds of Factual Findings Required for Award of "Reasonable" Attorney Fees Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Oct
27
2022
CFPB Annual Report: End to Mortgage Refinancing Boom, Increase in Home Purchase Loans Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Nov
6
2013
Notable Virginia Supreme Court Rulings Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Sep
5
2017
Regulatory Commission Must Decide Reasonableness of Municipal Ordinance Barnes & Thornburg LLP
Aug
28
2011
IRS Issues Final Regulations on Solid Waste Disposal Facilities Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Apr
9
2015
Tenants are Left in the Cold after the Sunset of the Protecting Tenants in Foreclosure Act McBrayer, McGinnis, Leslie and Kirkland, PLLC
Aug
19
2019
EPA Issues Updated Guidance on “Common Elements” of Superfund Innocent Landowner Defenses Beveridge & Diamond PC
Nov
28
2022
New Los Angeles City Documentary Transfer Tax Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP
Nov
18
2013
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Recent Developments: November 4, 2013 – November 8, 2013 Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Sep
20
2017
Litigation After Devastation: The Legal Storm Surge IMS Legal Strategies
Jan
15
2021
Are Tenant-Landlord Disputes Arbitrable? Supreme Court of India Overturns its Own Judgement  Nishith Desai Associates
Sep
27
2011
Mortgage Industry to Face Centralized Repository for State Regulatory Enforcement Actions - Deadline for Comments is September 20, 2011 Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Aug
23
2019
Treatment Of Models Under HUD's Proposed Disparate Impact Rule: Our Thoughts Ballard Spahr LLP
Dec
3
2013
Garden State Growth Zones Under The Economic Opportunity Act of 2013 Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla, P.C.
Feb
8
2021
Real Estate Debt and the UK Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 – The Moratorium Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Oct
18
2011
Inside Countrywide, a ‘Counseling Meeting’ Then Termination Center for Public Integrity
Jan
5
2023
The Register of Overseas Entities From a Restructuring and Insolvency Perspective Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Dec
23
2013
Disaster Losses Down From 2012 Risk and Insurance Management Society, Inc. (RIMS)
 

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