The practice of commercial real estate litigation concerns income-producing real estate properties and a wide variety of projects, including office buildings, retail centers, apartment buildings and condominium developments, hotels, and industrial and specialty properties.
Our firm represents clients in all types of commercial real estate matters including, but not limited to
- Acquisition and development of commercial real property
- Negotiating, drafting, and reviewing purchase contracts
- Deeds and transfers of titles
- Title services
- Representation at closing
- Eminent domain and condemnation
- Zoning and land use
- Environmental and regulatory compliance
- Landlord-tenant issues
- Commercial lease agreements
- Condominiums and PUDs
- Homeowner’s associations
- Property management
- Real property disputes and litigation
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Highlights
- Handled various aspects of litigation for planned communities in Pennsylvania and New Jersey (condominium associations and homeowners associations) in connection with rules enforcement, document preparation, collections, discrimination claims, and contract disputes
- Handled numerous commercial eviction cases on behalf of landlords and tenants in Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas and Philadelphia Municipal Court, as well as in suburban counties, involving breach of leases and confessions of judgment
- Represented real estate title companies in connection with disputes relating to the handling of real estate transactions, including successfully obtaining orders dismissing claims for negligence in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, as well as in interpleader actions
- Successfully tried to verdict a claim on behalf of a limited partner in a real estate partnership and piercing the corporate veil, resulting in a verdict of over $780,000.00 in the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia Commerce Program
- Successfully handled numerous cases at trial or arbitration relating to real property, including quiet title (disputes about ownership or title to property), ejectment (removal of a party occupying property without any legal basis), specific performance (seeking an order directing the property to be sold), partition (seeking to determine rights to property when two or more owners cannot agree to its disposition), and claims for trespass/negligence against adjacent property owners who sustain damage due to construction activities
- Represented various owners, contractors, developers, and suppliers, in the prosecution and defense in connection with construction-related disputes, including mechanics lien claims
- Successfully handled construction disputes by owners against contractors for faulty construction or failure to perform
- Successfully represented three property owners in Philadelphia County against the City of Philadelphia resulting in a non-jury verdict of over $60,000,000.00 for all plaintiffs, one of the largest tax assessment challenges in the City’s history
- Successfully resolved a real estate partnership dispute filed in the Superior Court of New Jersey involving ten properties
- Tried to verdict a claim brought under the Pennsylvania Conservator Statute against a homeowner in the court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County
- Successfully represented Philadelphia property owners in challenges to real estate tax assessments
