Ownership and use of land is an integral part of everyone’s life, whether personal or business. Real estate transactions may be as simple as a deed to a home or as complex as a multi-state, multi-million dollar business deal. We have substantial hands-on experience in structuring, negotiating and closing real estate deals for clients located throughout the United States.
Our firm can bring you the collective knowledge of a group of lawyers who have seen and done the full spectrum of real estate transactions. We know how others have done similar transactions, and we know the types of problems they have encountered. Our experience becomes your asset, because we can save you time, delays and costs by helping you design a plan that avoids these problems.
We also handle a variety of litigation matters involving real estate, such as title insurance claims, mechanics’ liens, eminent domain proceedings and construction disputes. Our real estate attorneys work closely with members of our litigation practice to effectively prosecute and defend such claims.
We represent many diverse real estate clients including:
- Fortune 500 companies
- Multi-national corporations
- Small and large privately held companies
- Small businesses, such as farmers and one-store retailers
- Government agencies
- Individuals
- Banks
- Debtors in restructuring their debt
- Developers planning, building, and selling apartments, office space and other commercial real estate ventures
- Lenders that finance real estate transactions
We represent our clients in all types of real estate transactions, including:
- Acquisitions and sales of residential, commercial and mixed-use properties
- Leasing transactions on behalf of landlords or tenants, including negotiating, drafting, interpreting and enforcing residential and commercial leases
- Serving as lenders’ counsel in real estate loans and local counsel for out-of-state transactions
- Property development and construction
- Eminent domain proceedings
- Internal Revenue Code Section 1031 like-kind exchanges and reverse like-kind exchanges
- Licensing, zoning, planning, land use, annexation and subdivision
- Environmental due diligence, permitting and compliance issues and analysis of liability exposure
- Negotiating, structuring and documenting railroad and utility easements
- Oil, gas and other mineral interests, including drafting and reviewing mineral leases, and the creation and financing of pipelines
- Creation and implementation of time share projects and other inventive and unique real property arrangements
- Real estate based loans, including construction loans
- Low Income Housing Tax Credit and New Market Tax Credit projects
- Litigation involving real estate, including eminent domain, mechanics’ lien claims, quiet title actions, boundary disputes, construction disputes, and eviction actions
As one of our real estate clients noted in the 2019 Chambers USA survey:
The “responsiveness and thoroughness of the Rose Firm attorneys . . . reinforces the reputation the Rose Firm enjoys. . .Its culture and standards of practice should be emulated by all.”