Real Estate Transactions

Attorney Deirdre O'Brien can advise you on a full range of commercial and residential needs from purchases, leases and title issues to complex condemnation or construction litigation issues. She offers comprehensive commercial real estate services to meet the needs of commercial tenants, developers, businesses, investors, lenders, brokers and other professionals. Some of the legal issues she frequently handles for business and commercial clients include:

• Commercial property purchase and sale transactions

• Commercial development and leasing

• Advice for real estate brokerages and property management companies

• Commercial leasing and landlord/tenant issues

• Land use and zoning issues

• Oil and gas law

• Construction contracting and financing

• Eminent domain of commercial property

• Section 1031 like-kind exchanges of investment property

• Commercial real estate litigation, including defect disputes, contract disputes and other issues

Deirdre represents lenders, buyers, sellers, landlords, tenants and other clients across the spectrum of residential real estate issues, including:

• Negotiation, review and documentation of purchase and sale transactions

• Home mortgage refinancing and closing

• Landlord-tenant issues, including evictions

• Title examination, lien removal and quiet title actions

• Deed preparation, including transfer on death affidavits, survivorship deeds and land partitions

• Board of Revision and Tax Valuation complaints to reduce real estate taxes

• Construction warranty and defect litigation

• Mechanics' lien perfection and enforcement

• Eminent domain of residential property

• Section 1031 like-kind exchanges of investment property

• Foreclosures

• Residential real estate litigation concerning easements, boundaries, nuisance claims or breach of contract