Commercial and Residential Real Estate

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The firm has a diverse New York real estate practice which includes representing international and U.S. individuals, real estate investment trusts, buyers/sellers and landlords/tenants in all stages of real estate transactions:

• Residential Real Estate (including coops, condominiums, houses and townhouses)
  • As the seller's and the buyer's residential real estate attorney, our firm handles all aspects of the real estate transaction from negotiating and drafting the contract of sale and related documents (for buyers, this includes among other items, reviewing financing materials, appraisals, surveys, title abstracts and engineers reports), through completing the real estate closing; and
  • Draft and negotiate real estate broker agreements.
    


• Commercial Real Estate (including, office buildings, mixed-use, parking garages, and shopping centers)
  • Form and advise corporations, special purpose entities, partnerships and joint ventures regarding acquisitions, sales, development and financing of real estate projects (including 1031 exchanges);
  • Negotiate and draft purchase and sale agreements;
  • Condominium / cooperative apartment building conversion and development;
  • Conduct due diligence;
  • Draft and negotiate real estate broker agreements;
  • Represent institutional lenders, mortgage banks and mortgage brokers in financing of real estate loans (negotiate and draft credit agreements/notes, security agreements, mortgages, and fixture filings);
  • Structure real estate transactions involving foreign purchasers (which may involve international or cross-border transactions) in a way to avoid U.S. estate and gift taxes with respect to such real estate (and minimize income taxes in connection with such real estate as well);
  • Represent owners, landlords, and tenants in negotiating, drafting, interpreting and enforcing leases and subleases; and
  • Negotiate and draft telecommunication equipment co-location agreements.