Our Real Estate Practice Group offers extensive experience handling residential and commercial real estate matters. We represent buyers, sellers, borrowers, lenders, landlords, tenants and property owners. We regularly handle matters relating to retail, office, commercial, industrial, agricultural, and residential property and development, including sales, purchases, exchanges, leasing and financing.
We also defend clients in Building Court or Administrative cases. We assist clients in prosecuting or defending mechanics lien claims. We are experienced in complex land use and zoning law issues, as well as construction and title concerns. Various partners have taught real estate law and drafting at Chicago law schools.
Our real estate tax lawyers advise clients in selecting and setting up the most appropriate entities to hold or develop property, including land trusts, partnerships, corporations and limited liability companies. We frequently structure and complete 1031 tax-deferred exchanges, employing Starker Trusts, qualified intermediaries, reverse exchanges, parking arrangements and other sophisticated tax strategies.
Specific Areas of Focus:
- Residential and commercial real estate transactions
- Leasing
- Land use and zoning
- Construction law, including prosecuting and defending mechanics liens
- Defending in Building Court or in City of Chicago Administrative Hearings
- Tax planning
- Landlord-tenant matters
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