Our Real Estate Group serves as counsel in connection with the transfer, finance and development of major commercial real estate projects, including:
- Shopping centers and freestanding retail sites
- Office buildings and parks
- Hospital/medical campuses
- Manufacturing and warehouse facilities
Our clients include owners, developers, retailers and business enterprises, including relocating companies. They rely on us to serve as advisors and lead negotiators to structure and document the acquisition, financing, leasing and sale of their projects.
We have significant experience in:
- Commercial leasing
- Zoning and land use
- Telecommunications (tower and rooftop antenna) sites
- Like-kind exchange transactions
- Reciprocal easements
- Use and development agreements
- Timberland acquisition and management
- Architectural, construction, management and related contracts
To address bankruptcy and environmental issues and real estate-related disputes, we work closely with attorneys from other practice areas throughout the firm to capitalize on their substantive legal knowledge and our practical real estate experience.
Also please see related Land Use practice area.
For more information, please contact any of the attorneys listed below.
Attorneys
News / Publications
News
- Willcox Savage Welcomes New Associates
- Attorneys Named in 2019 Virginia Super Lawyers & Rising Stars
- Willcox Savage Announces New Partner
- Willcox Savage Attorneys Recognized as Virginia's 2018 Legal Elite
- Willcox Savage Welcomes New Associate
- Chambers USA Recognizes Willcox Savage in 2018 Edition
- New communications tower to improve cellular coverage along Merrimac Trail
- Willcox Savage Welcomes Lisa M. Murphy
- Attorneys Named in 2018 Virginia Super Lawyers & Rising Stars
- Don't overlook stuff in the back of commercial lease
- Twenty-Five Attorneys Named as Virginia's "2017 Legal Elite"
- Willcox Savage Welcomes New Associates
- Chambers USA Recognizes Willcox Savage in 2017 Edition
- Attorneys Named in 2017 Virginia Super Lawyers & Rising Stars
- Twenty-Five Attorneys Named as Virginia's "2016 Legal Elite"
- Chambers USA Recognizes Willcox Savage in 2016 Edition
- Attorneys Named in 2016 Virginia Super Lawyers & Rising Stars
- Twenty-Nine Attorneys Named as Virginia's "2015 Legal Elite"
- Twenty-Five Attorneys Named Best Lawyers in America 2016
- Chambers USA Recognizes Willcox Savage in 2015 Edition
- Attorneys Named in 2015 Virginia Super Lawyers & Rising Stars
- Twenty-Four Attorneys Named as Virginia's "2014 Legal Elite"
- Willcox Savage Welcomes New Associates
- Willcox Savage Attorneys Recognized by Virginia Super Lawyers
- Willcox Savage Welcomes New Associates
- Chambers USA Recognizes Willcox Savage in 2014 Edition
- Twenty-One Attorneys Named as Virginia's "2013 Legal Elite"
- Twenty-Five Attorneys Named "Best Lawyers in America 2014"
- Willcox Savage Attorneys Recognized by Virginia Super Lawyers
- Chambers USA Recognizes Willcox Savage in 2013 Edition
- Twenty-Eight Attorneys Named as Virginia's "2012 Legal Elite"
- Twenty-Four Attorneys Named "Best Lawyers in America 2013"
- Willcox Savage Partners Recognized in "Virginia Top 100" by Super Lawyers
- Chambers USA Recognizes Willcox Savage in 2012 Edition
- Willcox Savage Announces New Partners
- Twenty-Seven Attorneys Named as Virginia's "2011 Legal Elite"
- Willcox Savage Lawyers Recognized as Virginia's "Top 50"
- Chambers USA Recognizes Willcox Savage in 2011 Edition
- Twenty-Six Attorneys Named as 2010 Legal Elite
- Twenty-Five Attorneys Named Best Lawyers in America 2011
- Willcox Savage Lawyers Named "Top 50" in Virginia
- Chambers USA Recognizes Willcox Savage in 2010 Edition
- Twenty Attorneys Named as 2009 Legal Elite
- Robert L. Dewey Named Norfolk Real Estate Lawyer of the Year
- Twenty-Seven Attorneys Named Best Lawyers in America 2010
- Chambers USA Recognizes Firm in 2009 Edition
- Thomas G. Johnson, Jr. Named "Lawyer of the Year"
- Willcox Savage Announces New Partner
Publications
- Slaying the Jurisprudential Beast: Virginia's Flawed Multi-Factor Approach to Differentiating "Ordinary Building Materials" from "Equipment" and "Machinery" Under Code § 8.01-250
- Virginia's Legal Elite 2014 - Robert L. Dewey Profiled in Real Estate/Land Use
- 2014 Outlook - What's Ahead in Commercial Real Estate
- Court hands developer property rights win
- Tree damage could put you out on a limb
- SBA offers relief to real estate borrowers
- Profits and pitfalls of promissory notes
- Local retailers see increase in ADA suits
- Guarantor Liability: 10 Things You Should Know
- Practical benefits of ‘baseball arbitration’
- Loans could be getting more expensive
- The closing was only the beginning
- Structuring a tax-exempt refinance transaction
- Let's do the math on price vs. assessed value
- Author of two chapters on commercial leases, Landlord/Tenant Law and Practice Handbook published by Virginia Law Foundation
- Property owner lacked vested rights to develop
- Be unambiguous about exemptions
- Look before you leap
- The good, the bad and the oh so ugly
- Enforcement ramps up