The Real Estate Practice Group provides advice and counsel to clients with respect to the acquisition, development, financing, leasing, and sale of real property and improvements and on issues that are associated with those activities.  The legal services we provide include negotiating, drafting, and reviewing purchase and sale contracts for buyers and sellers; examining real estate titles; representing buyers and sellers in real estate purchase and sale transactions; and negotiating, drafting, and reviewing financing and loan documents, leases, management agreements, and construction contracts.

Attorneys within the Real Estate Practice Group appear frequently before governmental bodies to represent clients on a variety of issues including those related to subdivision of property, zoning, land use, the environment, and taxation.  Our knowledge of the regulations affecting those matters coupled with our years of related experience allow us to advise our clients regarding regulatory compliance.

Recognizing that many issues affect the acquisition, financing, development, ownership, and use of real property, we believe that the team approach is critical to providing our clients the best representation.   Attorneys in the Real Estate Practice Group work closely with attorneys in the Business, Environmental, Litigation, and Trusts and Estates Practice Groups of the firm.  Additionally, Community Associations Practice Group attorneys provide assistance and services to developers of community associations such as townhouses and condominiums, frequently seek counsel and advice from Real Estate Practice Group attorneys. 

When the client's transaction involves states other than North Carolina, we have the ability to associate counsel in the geographical area involved to ensure proper representation.  The attorneys in the Real Estate Practice Group have a broad range of experience.  Two have chaired the Real Property Section of the North Carolina Bar Association; one has served as a research assistant to Associate Justice (later Chief Justice) Susie Sharpe of the North Carolina Supreme Court; and two are listed in The Best Lawyers in America.  Additionally, several have been lecturers and panelists in continuing education seminars sponsored by the North Carolina Bar Association and other professional organizations and at programs sponsored by private and civic groups.  Several attorneys in the Real Estate Practice Group have extensive experience with the federal Interstate Land Sales Full Disclosure Act, the North Carolina Condominium Act, and the Planned Community Act.  As part of their continuing legal education, our attorneys are members of and are active in various real property-oriented organizations including the Real Property Section of the North Carolina Bar Association and the North Carolina Land Title Association.

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