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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
25
2023
Primer on Fines and Suspension in Covenant Enforcement Varnum LLP
Mar
27
2020
Governor Wolf Approves Temporary and Limited Suspension of Rule Requiring Physical Presence of Notaries for Real Estate Transactions Norris McLaughlin P.A.
Sep
10
2018
Part 17 of “The Restricting Covenant” Series: Realtors, Real Estate Agents, and Restrictive Covenants Faegre Drinker
Mar
10
2016
Aesthetics and Land Use Regulations in North Carolina Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Jan
2
2013
Beware the Boilerplate: Issue Two Hunton Andrews Kurth
Aug
4
2023
Subject Matter Matters in Land Court Goulston & Storrs
Mar
31
2020
Real Estate Provisions of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) Greenberg Traurig, LLP
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
Jan
13
2013
The Supreme Judicial Court Declares that Inexpensive Market-Rate Housing May Not Be Counted in Determining a Town’s Compliance with Chapter 40B Mintz
Nov
18
2021
The New ASTM E1527-21 Standard Practice for Phase I Environmental Site Assessments (ESA) von Briesen & Roper, s.c.
Aug
15
2023
BTR Series Part 4: Affordable Housing And Key Worker Housing—What Role Do These Play in the BTR Solution? K&L Gates
Apr
3
2020
Cares Act Provides Significant Benefits to Real Estate Industry McDermott Will & Emery
Apr
8
2016
Percentage Rent: How Calculated and When to Collect Sherin and Lodgen LLP
Sep
24
2014
Are Landlords and Tenants “Jointly and Severally Liable” Under the Industrial Site Recovery Act (“ISRA”)? Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla, P.C.
Jan
28
2013
Good News for Lenders! Minor Errors in Deeds of Trust Less Costly As Result of New Bankruptcy Court Opinion Poyner Spruill LLP
Dec
8
2021
Freddie Mac Addresses Cryptocurrency in Mortgage Lending Criteria Hunton Andrews Kurth
Oct
24
2018
FTC Settles Fair Credit Reporting Act Action with Tenant Background Screening Company Faegre Drinker
Apr
20
2016
San Francisco Mandates Solar Power on New Buildings Holland & Hart LLP
Feb
11
2013
Apartments Are Hottest Development In the Triangle. Get It? - Apartment Transactions Are on Way Up Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Sep
5
2023
California Expands Liability Under the FEHA to Business-Entity Agents Foley & Lardner LLP
Apr
10
2020
Client Alert: What Landlords and Tenants Need to Know About Massachusetts House Bill 4615 and Senate Bill 2631 Sherin and Lodgen LLP
May
9
2016
Senate Republicans Hope ‘Third Time is Charm’ on Energy-Water Bill; House Budget Unlikely, Will Start Appropriations Floor Consideration After May 15 Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Feb
28
2013
Illinois Supreme Court Issues New Procedural Rules for Foreclosures Katten
Sep
15
2023
IRS Rules Transferable Development Rights Are Real Property for Section 1031 Purposes Greenberg Traurig, LLP
May
28
2016
Good News on “Bad Boy” Guarantees – IRS Reverts to Prior Position in Recent Legal Advice Memorandum Mintz
Oct
14
2014
Regulators Increase Scrutiny of Wall Street Lending Bilzin Sumberg
Mar
13
2013
The Lender as Successor Developer Revisited Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor & Reed, P.A.
 

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