Real Estate

Real Estate transactions range from the routine to the complex, from basic acquisition of property and leases to multi-party, mixed-use developments. Gray Plant Mooty's Real Estate Team brings experience and expertise to legal needs along the continuum.

We take a practical, results-oriented approach to real estate matters. We know that every transaction -- however big or small -- is vitally important to our clients, and that, typically, time is of the essence. Our lawyers are vitally involved in each phase, from structuring the deal to the final closing.

Expertise to Fit the Need

Our clients include developers, governmental agencies, lenders, public and private corporations, builders, contractors and investors. Their needs involve transactions of all types in both commercial and residential real estate matters.

Our team's recent activities include:

assisting lenders and borrowers with real-estate-based loans involving both undeveloped and developed properties.
representing 27 affiliated companies in the simultaneous refinancing of approximately 125 properties in seven states.
representing developers of significant suburban retail, office, industrial and residential developments.
obtaining financing and remediation of environmentally contaminated property on behalf of the owner.
conducting real estate tax protests on behalf of the owners of numerous hotel, shopping center, office, warehouse and multiple residential buildings.

A Wide Range of Real Estate Experience

Our lawyers bring years of experience to bear in real estate areas including:

land use, zoning and related matters
design agreements
acquisitions and sales
lease negotiations
analysis and advice on tax consequences
options
project financing
easements
sale-leaseback transactions
syndications
risk assessment
real estate litigation
title matters
workouts, mortgage foreclosure, contract-for-deed cancellations
environmental matters
condemnation/eminent domain
development/redevelopment projects
property tax protests