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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
17
2012
Bay Mills Indian Community Gets Green Light to Reopen Vanderbilt Casino Varnum LLP
Mar
18
2020
Impact of Coronavirus on Commercial Real Estate Transactions – Remote Notarization and County Recording Office Closures Stark & Stark
Jul
13
2018
Massachusetts Court Rules on LIHTC Right of First Refusal Provisions Ballard Spahr LLP
Jun
18
2014
Michigan “Lakefront” Buyers Beware Varnum LLP
Feb
2
2016
Texas Supreme Court Examines Liability for Property Owners Steptoe & Johnson PLLC
Sep
13
2021
Property Insurance Claims and Loss Drafts: Mortgage Servicer Obligations Under the GSE Security Instrument Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
Sep
14
2012
“Slam Dunk” Liability Defense Does Not Abrogate Duty to Defend Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP
Aug
9
2018
UK Real Property Beneficial Ownership Register – Draft Legislation Published Katten
Jun
25
2014
P3s (Public-Private Partnerships) are a Viable Tool for Convention Center Development Bilzin Sumberg
Sep
23
2021
IRS Targeting Those Who “Relocated” To Puerto Rico in the Wake of Act 22 Oberheiden P.C.
Jun
30
2023
Buyers and Sellers Beware: Upcoming Transfer and Recordation Tax Changes in DC and Montgomery County ArentFox Schiff LLP
Mar
25
2020
COVID-19’s Impact on California Property Tax Deadlines and Planning Considerations Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Sep
6
2018
Petitions for Rehearing En Banc Filed in Fifth Circuit Decision Finding FHFA Is Unconstitutionally Structured Ballard Spahr LLP
Mar
8
2016
What Does Americold Realty Trust Have To Do With Rule 147? Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Oct
11
2021
Will Implicit Bias Training for Real Estate Industry Professionals Become a Trend? Jackson Lewis P.C.
Jul
11
2023
The Severability of Wind Rights from a Surface Estate Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Oct
16
2012
Michigan Supreme Court Remands Cherryland After Enactment of Legislation Deeming Solvency Covenants of Non-Recourse Loans Unenforceable Barnes & Thornburg LLP
Mar
27
2020
NYDFS Limits Mortgage Relief to Residential Borrowers Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Oct
4
2018
California Further Expands Protections to Servicemembers, Restricts Credit Reporting About Active Duty Status, Requires Written Responses to Requests for Relief under the Statute; and Enacts New Criminal Penalties Ballard Spahr LLP
Jul
21
2014
Raleigh's (North Carolina) Citywide Zoning Remapping Goes Interactive Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Mar
24
2016
North Carolina - The Ready-Made Suit of Standing Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Nov
3
2021
Infrastructure Spending’s Impact on Retail and Commercial Sites Stark & Stark
Jul
21
2023
Government Asserts the Defendants Lied and Cheated the IRS out of over $1.3 Billion: The Government’s Opening Statement of the United States v. Fisher Polsinelli PC
Nov
9
2012
Potential Property Tax Relief for Properties Effected By Hurricane Sandy Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla, P.C.
Oct
11
2018
Mortgage Industry Urges CFPB to Make Changes to Lo Comp Rule Ballard Spahr LLP
Aug
1
2014
Zillow Acquires Trulia: Real Estate Companies Bilzin Sumberg
Apr
10
2016
Negative Pledge Pros and Cons Murtha Cullina
Nov
17
2021
5 Trends in Office Space Utilization Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
 

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