Real Estate Litigation - Litigation

Real Estate Litigation

SmithAmundsen offers the depth of legal service and extensive business and legal experience needed to successfully represent real estate clients in projects and transactions including regulatory challenges, public/private financing, title clearance, commercial leasing, closings, and much more.

Our attorneys represent public and private clients, including land developers, residential and commercial builders, developers specializing in new urbanism and mixed-use projects, investors in real estate, banks and financial institutions in real estate lending transactions, as well as special purpose taxing districts. Real estate dispute resolution, including litigation and arbitration of contract disputes, construction defect cases, zoning matters, eminent domain, and representation in title disputes arising from adverse possession claims and other title matters, are all part of the variety of litigation services offered to our real estate clients.

Our diverse and experienced real estate attorneys have represented clients in both traditional litigation and alternative dispute resolution proceedings including mediation and arbitration relating to the following types of real property disputes on behalf of commercial, residential, and public clients:

Breach of contract
Fraud and misrepresentation
Unlawful Merchandising Practices Act violations
Construction and property defect cases
Boundary disputes
Adverse possession and prescriptive easements
Title defects
Nuisance
Covenant violations
Eminent domain and valuation
Commercial lease disputes (rent, premises violation, maintenance disputes)
Brokerage commission disputes
Housing discrimination
Trespass
Abandonment
Environmental contamination
Zoning and subdivision disputes