Attorneys in our national real estate practice advise clients in acquisition, financing, leasing, sale, and restructuring transactions. The practice is exceptionally diversified, represents clients nationwide, and offers fully integrated legal services.
Our services include:
- Acquisitions and equity participations
- Commercial leasing, development, and finance
- Condominiums and planned communities
- Construction and design contracts
- High-rise office development and leasing
- Industrial and warehouse development
- Military base re-use
- Mixed-use development, including office, retail, hotel and parking facilities, medical office condominiums, and golf course/residential
- Multifamily housing development and financing (including FHA, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, and GNMA programs)
- Port, airport, transit, and industrial development projects
- Public/private ventures
- Real estate taxation, including appeals and exemptions
- Resort, hotel, and fractional interest projects, including ski and golf facilities
- Restructurings, workouts, and foreclosures
- Shopping center development and leasing
OUR APPROACH
Client service is paramount. We continuously augment and refine our skills to meet the needs of our clients.
Our attorneys are leaders in bar and industry organizations, including, among others, the American Bar Association, American College of Real Estate Lawyers, American College of Mortgage Attorneys, American Resort Development Association, and Urban Land Institute. We value collaboration—among our own team members and with our clients—and believe it to be at the core of the client focus that is central to Ballard Spahr's real estate practice.
OUR CLIENTS
- Apartment owners
- Developers
- Financial institutions in loan restructurings and workouts
- Housing authorities
- International science and technology centers
- Institutional lenders
- Investors
- Lenders
- National brand hotel companies in resorts and fractional interest projects
- National and regional institutional lenders in office building, convention center, hotel, shopping center, parking, mixed-use, and residential projects
- National and regional shopping center developers
- National retail companies
- Office, industrial, and multifamily developers
- Owners
- Receivers
- Redevelopment and economic development agencies
- Regional real estate brokerage companies
- Regional transportation authorities
- REITs
- Residential developers and home builders
- Special servicers
- Sports, cultural, and civic enterprises
- Universities
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