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
- 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