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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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Jul
3
2020
Court Holds That Decedent’s Residence Was Homestead That Was Exempt From Claims Against Her Estate Winstead
Dec
4
2014
Kentucky Tenant Absence During the Lease Term: Protecting Your Property McBrayer, McGinnis, Leslie and Kirkland, PLLC
Jan
4
2024
HOME BUYERS BEWARE: Court Cracks Down on Unsolicited Texts Offering to Buy Homes for Cash Troutman Amin, LLP
Jul
5
2013
IRS Work Group to Explore Definition of Real Estate for Taxation McBrayer, McGinnis, Leslie and Kirkland, PLLC
Sep
15
2010
Survey of State Laws Regarding Foreclosure Related Issues: The State Law Impact Project - Part 3 Hunton Andrews Kurth
Mar
6
2017
Pay When Paid Clauses in Construction Contracts Stark & Stark
Apr
4
2019
Revenue Procedure 2019-17 – The IRS Issues Helpful Guidance on Qualified Residential Rental Projects Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Dec
12
2014
Great Lakes Ag-Tech Business Incubator Helps Entrepreneurial Farmers Varnum LLP
Jan
9
2024
Boston Adds Updated Inclusionary Development Policy to the Zoning Code—What Questions Remain? Goulston & Storrs
Jul
11
2013
The Supreme Court Gets It Right On Takings - And Wrong - A View from "Inside the Curtilage": The Property Owner's Perspective Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Nov
8
2010
Next Wave of MBS Litigation Focuses on Issuers, Underwriters Hunton Andrews Kurth
Jul
23
2020
New Florida Receivership Statute Gives Commercial Mortgage Lenders Potential Leverage Foley & Lardner LLP
Mar
17
2017
The Importance of Recordkeeping in Commercial Lease Administration Sherin and Lodgen LLP
Jan
17
2024
Deferring Reality on Tax Relief Jones Walker LLP
Jul
18
2013
Florida's New Fast Track Foreclosure Law Creates Additional Requirements for Lenders and Mortgage Servicers Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Aug
3
2020
Master in Chancery Dismissive of Fiduciary Seek Dismissal, Applies familiar 12(B)(6) Standard K&L Gates
Apr
30
2019
The Second Set of Proposed Opportunity Zone Regulations Proskauer Rose LLP
Jul
30
2013
Big Changes For Monmouth Property Tax Assessments Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla, P.C.
Feb
24
2011
Brokers - Thou Shalt Not Accept Payments From More Than One Source In Connection With a Mortgage Loan Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Aug
17
2020
IRS Issues REIT-Favorable Ruling for Taxable REIT Subsidiary in Private Equity International Healthcare Acquisition McDermott Will & Emery
Apr
20
2017
UK Proposal for Register of Foreign Beneficial Ownership of Real Estate Continues Global Trend Toward Transparency Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
May
7
2019
Executive Summary: IRS Issues Second Installment of Qualified Opportunity Zone Fund (QOF) Proposed Regulations Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Jan
5
2015
GAO Reaffirms Protest Jurisdiction Over “Mixed Transaction” Leases, But Questions Remain Covington & Burling LLP
Feb
5
2024
Florida Housing to Reopen Portal for Additional Multifamily Middle Market Certification Requests Nelson Mullins
Aug
6
2013
Checking the "Landscape" of the North Carolina General Assembly's Just-Concluded Session Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Mar
20
2011
Dancing with Danger: Who is at Fault When Concertgoers and Bar Patrons are Injured? Risk and Insurance Management Society, Inc. (RIMS)
Sep
4
2020
COVID-19 Update: CDC Order Temporarily Halts Residential Evictions Nationwide until December 31, 2020 Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
May
9
2017
North Carolina Supreme Court Adopts "Substantial Competent Evidence" Requirement for Borrowers Asserting "True Value" Defense in Foreclosure Deficiency Actions Ward and Smith, P.A.
 

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