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Real Estate Transactions
Every real estate transaction is handled by an experienced attorney who shepherds the matter from start to finish. From the challenging to the extraordinary, from the evident to the obscure, Buchalter Nemer’s real estate attorneys enjoy and regularly handle complex issues.
With its foundation firmly planted in the firm’s business and commercial finance expertise, the practice group’s attorneys are fluent in real estate financing, leasing, purchases and sales, development, zoning, land use, eminent domain, condemnation, tax-driven deals, and municipal housing.
At Buchalter Nemer, no deal is treated as standard. Its real estate attorneys pride themselves on understanding the nuances and the unique circumstances of every client’s transaction. When a client purchases a property, they not only pay attention to the details of the acquisition, but look at factors that might influence the sale of the property should the owner need or decide to sell at some future time. They consider the "what ifs" in every contract, always keeping the best interests of the client at the fore—at rates that are fair and reasonable.
Nationally, the firm represents banks, general businesses, developers, architects and contractors in deals for worldclass hotels, high-rises and hospitals. On any given day, our real estate attorneys are working on transactions involving shopping centers, office and industrial buildings, power
production facilities, residential subdivisions, residential and commercial condominiums, hotels, casinos, sports arenas, golf courses, time-share resorts, public use facilities, housing and historic properties.
Land Use And Zoning
The firm’s land use and zoning team includes experienced attorneys and planners who assist property owners and developers obtain the necessary entitlements for the development of their projects. Master planned communities, shopping centers, office parks, hotels, air parks and developments ranging from 8,800 acres to less than one acre, are among their most recent projects.
The team’s involvement extends from inception to completion. They are expert in matters involving subdivisions, conditional and special-use permits, variances, annexation, rezoning and general plan amendments, master plans, planned unit developments, nonconforming uses and eminent domain. They work in conjunction with local government attorneys, planning staff, planning commissioners and elected officials to lay the groundwork for clients and their projects. Their counsel may extend to assistance with public and government relations strategies or approaches to advocacy and lobbying.
The firm also represents homeowners, neighborhood associations and other community groups concerned about projects proposed for their neighborhoods.
Real Estate Litigation
The firm’s success is not limited to the transactional side of the practice. In litigation, the firm has achieved extraordinary results for its clients: a multimillion dollar confidential settlement for a New York investment banking firm on a sale-leaseback financing transaction; a multimillion dollar confidential settlement in a construction defect case; millions of dollars in judgments and settlements involving the valuation of property, leases and lost goodwill of business interests in cases of eminent domain, among the few.