Real Estate LawHelmsing, Leach, Herlong, Newman, & Rouse, P.C. has a broad real estate practice, representing clients engaged in all areas of the real estate industry. Our clients include residential and commercial buyers and sellers, shopping center owners and tenants, apartment complex and condominium owners and developers, brokerage companies, residential and commercial contractors, real estate investment trusts, title companies, and banks and other financial institutions who lend monies secured by real estate.Our real estate practice activities encompass negotiating, drafting, structuring of transactions and business relationships, advice in connection with federal, state and local laws and regulations. We routinely supply legal opinions to out-of-state lenders on real estate financing and other real estate matters. Often the Firm represents clients by appearing before planning agencies and boards of adjustment, and rendering tax advice on such issues as deferred exchanges and installment sales. We also have extensive experience in representing clients in court and arbitration proceedings involving real estate and construction law, as well as in representing owners, sureties, contractors and subcontractors in payment and performance bond claims. The Firm also has a substantial eminent domain and condemnation practice, representing both property owners and governmental agencies. |