Real Estate

Silver & Freedman has an extensive and diverse commercial real estate practice that includes representing institutional and high net worth individual clients in all facets of buying, selling, exchanging, financing, developing, leasing, and operating real property. Silver & Freedman’s clients include office, industrial and shopping center owners and tenants, commercial brokerage firms, lender groups and real estate investors and syndicators. Silver & Freedman’s real estate attorneys have closed purchase and sale transactions for hundreds of millions of dollars of real estate, and have negotiated leases affecting millions of square feet of space. Our real estate attorneys have experience in buying, selling, leasing and operating all types of real property, including:

• Office Buildings 

• Mixed-Use Developments 

• Service Stations 

• Restaurants

• Shopping and Retail Centers 

• Industrial/Manufacturing Facilities

• Hospitals and Medical Clinics 

• Single Family Residences

• Condominiums 

• Apartment Buildings

Our attorneys also have substantial experience structuring business entities and organizations as well as syndicating interests in those entities. In addition, our attorneys are experienced in drafting the following types of business documents: 

• Limited and General Partnership Agreements 

• Construction Contracts

• Limited Liability Company Operating Agreements 

• Easements

• Co-ownership Agreements 

• Non-Disturbance Agreements 

• Real Property Purchase Options 

• Licenses 

Silver & Freedman’s strong corporate and tax department further enhances our ability to guide clients through the business considerations, regulatory constraints and tax implications of their transactions. When necessary, our real estate attorneys draw upon the firm’s litigation attorneys to handle: 

• Actions for Specific Performance 

• Commercial and Private Lease Disputes

• Unlawful Detainer 

• Construction Defect Litigation

• Breaches of Real Estate Covenants and Conditions 

• Mechanics’ Lien Suits and other Lien Rights

• Breach of Contract Actions for the Sale and Purchase of Real Property

• Cases of Adverse Possession and Perspective Easements

Silver & Freedman’s real estate attorneys understand our clients’ business objectives, and strive to help them achieve those objectives in an efficient and cost effective manner. We maintain a businesslike and deal oriented approach, focusing on what is important to our clients. Simply put, we strive to be “deal makers,” rather than “deal killers.”