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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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Apr
23
2014
Port Miami and Port Canaveral Undergoing Major Expansions Bilzin Sumberg
Jun
29
2021
Biden Administration Continues Fair Lending Efforts as HUD Announces Proposal to Restore the Discriminatory Effects Rule Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
May
1
2023
Restrictive Covenants in Real Estate: Next Antitrust Enforcement Target? Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Jan
22
2020
Final Regulations on Opportunity Zones Proskauer Rose LLP
Sep
22
2015
State Lands Commission Land Exchanges Not Exempt from CEQA Review Absent a Title or Boundary Dispute; Actual Notice Doesn’t Satisfy CEQA Notice Requirements Under Public Resources Code Section 21177(e) Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
May
2
2014
Important Trends and Factors to Consider as Empty Nesters Downsize Bilzin Sumberg
Jul
17
2012
Lender Entitled to Leases, Rents and Tax Refunds Accruing Prior to Default Under Michigan Law Barnes & Thornburg LLP
Jul
7
2021
Suffolk County Fair Housing Task Force Recommends Amendments to County Human Rights Law Jackson Lewis P.C.
Oct
12
2015
Illinois Appellate Court Upholds Foreclosure Judgment Despite Discrepancies Between Copies of the Note Attached to Foreclosure Complaint and Submitted into Evidence Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
May
15
2014
Signed, Sealed, Delivered, Rezoned: City of Raleigh to Begin City-Wide Rezoning and "Remapping" Process Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Jul
27
2012
Dower - An Old Law With New Headaches McBrayer, McGinnis, Leslie and Kirkland, PLLC
May
28
2023
Supreme Court Issues Decision in Sackett v. EPA Rolling Back Clean Water Act Jurisdiction Over Certain Wetlands ArentFox Schiff LLP
Apr
13
2018
IRS Expands Remedial Action for Nonqualified Use of Tax-Advantaged Bonds Mintz
Feb
12
2020
Newly Expanded CFIUS Jurisdiction Mintz
Oct
22
2015
West Virginia Supreme Court Clarifies Application of Landlords’ Homeowner’s Insurance Policy to Tenant’s Insurable Interest Steptoe & Johnson PLLC
May
28
2014
New 2-Year Statutory Extension for Certain Florida Environmental & Development Permits Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Jun
8
2023
Supreme Court Sustains High Bar to Diligent Prosecution Defense for Clean Water Act Citizen Suits Barnes & Thornburg LLP
Oct
31
2015
UK Housing and Development Consent Orders Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Jun
11
2014
Leading Markets Index Shows 56 Metros at or Above Normal Levels in June Bilzin Sumberg
Aug
28
2012
Possible Law Requiring Nonprofit Land Conservancies to Pay Property Taxes is a Bad idea Varnum LLP
Aug
8
2021
Withdrawal Liability – Real Property Presumed a Trade or Business Jackson Lewis P.C.
May
16
2018
Forget Parking Spaces, Developers: Tenants May Soon be Asking if Your Building Comes With an Aerial Gondola Terminal Mintz
Nov
23
2015
Colorado Court of Appeals Recognizes Implied Warranty of Suitability Between Master Developer and Later Purchasers Polsinelli PC
Jun
21
2014
SB 440, Chapter 2014-14 of Florida Laws, Nonresidential Condominium Bill Becomes Law Bilzin Sumberg
Aug
25
2021
GRATS — Grantor Retained Annuity Trusts Wiggin and Dana LLP
Jun
7
2018
Koprivec v. Rails-to-Trails of Wayne County: What Deed Drafters Need to Know Dickinson Wright PLLC
Dec
18
2015
FDIC Warns Banks About Risks of Marketplace Lending Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
Jul
1
2014
Office of Inspector General (OIG) Urges Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) To Sue Over Force-Placed Insurance Bilzin Sumberg
 

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