Practice Areas

Real Estate & Land Use

Our real estate and land use practice spans the full spectrum of residential and commercial transactions, including investment, sales, leasing, financing, construction, and land use permitting and development. We represent buyers and sellers, borrowers and lenders, builders and owners, and brokers and investors in completion of projects and settlement of disputes throughout the states of Oregon and Washington.

Construction & Development Support

We provide comprehensive legal services to real estate developers and contractors for projects of all sizes and scope, from single-unit residential homes to large-scale commercial developments.

Land Use

We handle matters ranging from complex comprehensive plan amendments with related zone changes and land divisions to simple partitions before local governments throughout Oregon and Washington.  We assist applicants with coordinating consultants, communicating with public officials, and obtaining approvals necessary to move forward with their project.

Real Estate Transactions

Our real estate attorneys negotiate and draft documentation for all types of real estate transactions. We have expertise with a wide variety of real estate, including agricultural, residential, commercial, retail, mixed-use, industrial and public lands.  We assist clients with all aspects of transactions, including:
 

• Contracts
• Due Diligence Investigations
• Easements
• Financing
• Leasing
• Litigation
• Permitting
• Purchases and Sales
• Taxation
• IRC 1031 Exchanges
• Title Matters, including title insurance and claims