Real Estate
2011 Gold Supporter of USGBC-Minnesota
From the most routine acquisition of property and leases to the most complex multi-party, mixed-use developments, Gray Plant Mooty’s Real Estate team helps you complete real estate transactions successfully and achieve your goals.
Our clients include developers, government agencies, lenders, public and private corporations, builders, contractors, and investors with legal needs of all types, in both commercial and residential real estate.
For example, some recent activities include:
- Assisting lenders and borrowers with loans involving both undeveloped and developed properties
- Conducting real estate tax protests on behalf of the owners of numerous hotel, shopping center, office, warehouse, and multiple residential buildings
- Obtaining financing and remediation of environmentally contaminated property on behalf of the owner
- 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
Our lawyers have years of experience in real estate matters, including:
- Acquisitions and sales
- Analysis and advice on tax consequences
- Condemnation/eminent domain
- Condominium development
- Design and architectural agreements
- Construction contracts
- Development/redevelopment projects
- Easements
- Environmental matters
- Land use, zoning, and related matters
- Lease negotiations
- Like-kind exchanges
- Mineral/mining law
- Options
- Project financing
- Property tax protests
- Real estate litigation
- Risk assessment
- Sale-leaseback transactions
- Syndications
- Title matters
- Workouts, mortgage foreclosure, and contract-for-deed cancellations
Gray Plant Mooty Real Estate attorneys are committed to providing informed legal consultation on the vast array of issues involved in sustainable 'green' real estate, including development, leasing, and renovation. Our attorneys guide clients through the risks and opportunities of the sustainability process. We also demonstrate our commitment to green building through our sponsorship of the U.S. Green Building Council/Mississippi Headwaters Chapter, an organization in which Gray Plant Mooty attorneys are actively involved.