Real Estate Transactions
Real estate transactions can quickly become complex, especially for developers and investors managing multiple moving parts. From acquisition to disposition, each stage requires careful planning and legal oversight.
A typical transaction may involve site acquisition, land use and zoning considerations, tax implications, deal structuring, financing, and more. Having experienced legal guidance can help you navigate these steps and avoid costly delays or complications.
If you’re involved in a real estate transaction, our real estate attorneys serving Bucks, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia Counties can help you move forward with confidence.
Key Components of Real Estate Transactions
- Funding acquisition
- Deal underwriting
- Liability assessments
- Due diligence
- Title and survey review
- Zoning and permitting analysis
- Insurance history review
- Environmental assessments
- Wood-destroying insect inspections
- Financial analysis
- Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliance review
- Evaluation of additional costs and expenses
Real estate transactions often require coordination across multiple disciplines. Our attorneys provide practical, strategic guidance to help ensure your transaction is structured properly and completed efficiently.
A Real Estate Law Firm with Depth
Our real estate transaction attorneys have deep expertise. For instance, we've worked with clients on everything from real estate partnership arrangements to regulatory and operating agreements. Indeed, our extensive list of services includes:
- Drafting and negotiating real estate partnership arrangements
- Ground leases
- Sale/leaseback documentation for real estate financing
- Refinancing or developing healthcare facilities and affordable housing developments
- Development agreements
- Office and retail leases
- Contracts of purchase and sale
- Regulatory and operating agreements
- Conservation easements and restrictive covenants
- Access, utility, and construction easements
- Property management agreements
- Real estate brokerage and leasing agreements
- Loan documentation, including loan agreements, promissory notes, mortgages, and related security instruments, such as assignments of project documents
- Intercreditor agreements
- Partnership and limited liability company (LLC) operating agreements
As one of the best real estate law firms in Pennsylvania, you'll be hard-pressed to find a firm that can deliver more expertise.
Our Real Estate Transaction Attorneys Know Pennsylvania Laws and Regulations
We've honed our practice on Pennsylvania law. So that's allowed us to support PA clients with complex negotiations. Here are just a few of our success stories:
- The Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency (PHFA) and the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development for real estate loans and grants from the Commonwealth;
- Investors for low-income housing tax credit transactions relating to limited partnership agreements
- Unrelated not-for-profit and for-profit entities participating as members of general partners in affordable housing transactions
- Local redevelopment authorities and local economic development authorities throughout the Commonwealth for land purchases and "soft loans."
- Banks and other conventional lenders for construction and HUD-insured loans
- The Philadelphia regional office of HUD for HUD-insured loans
- Private sellers of properties scheduled for new development or rehabilitation
- Contractors and architects providing design and construction services
- Community organizations for community benefit agreements
Talk to our real estate transaction attorneys for your own success story.
Get Your Transaction Done Right with High Swartz
Our law firm offers more than real estate experience. For instance, we're versed in environmental, business, and municipal law, so we have the diverse expertise to handle even the most rigorous transactional demands.
We'll help structure, outline, and monitor all due diligence necessary to assure compliance with environmental laws and local permitting requirements. So, we'll cover you every step of the way.
If you're dealing with a complex real estate transaction, get in touch. Our real estate transaction attorneys work with clients throughout Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland, and other states.
We make deals happen. Call our law offices in Doylestown and Norristown now.
