Real Estate
Think of all the factors that come into play in modern commercial, industrial and residential real estate transactions or development projects. At Howard & Howard, we've assembled experts from all legal disciplines who have the sound judgment, creativity and vision to shepherd your project from concept to completion. We work as a team – and win for you.
Real Estate services include:
- Entity selection and formation
- Acquisition, disposition and tax-deferred exchanges
- Development, architectural and construction contracts
- Title defects and irregularities
- Financing and syndication
- Leasing, licensing and temporary uses
- Planning, zoning and other government entitlements
- Environmental regulation
- Development incentives including TIF, DDA loans and Brownfield Redevelopment
- Easements and boundary issues
- Residential and commercial condominium development and conversion
- Retail development
- Condemnation/eminent domain
- Brokerage and property management
- Foreclosure, bankruptcy and workouts
- Federal, state and local taxation and appeals
- Litigation
Fortune 500 companies with extensive national real estate portfolios are not too big for Howard & Howard's real estate experts and the single commercial parcel is not too small.
Regardless of the size of your deal–or the complexity of the issues–we deliver high-quality, on- time work product at a lower price than most law firms providing comparable real estate services.
We're proud of the broad range of work we've done on behalf of our clients:
- Counsel for over $500 million in real property acquisition, development, leasing and disposition for a major automobile manufacturer.
- Real estate counsel to the largest oil company in the U.S.
- Foreclosure, management and sale of the second largest office building in Detroit.
- Real estate and environmental counsel to one of the largest fast-food chains in America.
- Counsel to the largest full-service real estate company in the nation.
- Landlord-tenant related litigation and tenant workout strategies for national upscale shopping mall developer and manager.
- Preparation and negotiation of international leases in North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Australia.
- As litigation counsel to one of the largest construction companies in the U.S., handled litigation on projects in excess of $1 billion.
- Counsel to a Midwest banking corporation, with multi-state operations of more than 600 building facilities in eight states.
- TIF structure for various large retail development projects.
- Preparation of RFP and structure for sale of large professional sports stadium.
How we work for you
- Howard & Howard conducts a national and international real estate practice, with attorneys who have handled deals in almost every major U.S. city and more than nine foreign countries.
- The attorneys in this practice area handle all facets of real estate law including acquisitions, land use, zoning, development issues, landlord/tenant issues, contractor disputes and financing, with additional services provided as needed.
- Howard & Howard handles a higher volume of real estate transactions with greater dollar value attached than almost any other law firm in Michigan.
- Howard & Howard attorneys monitor current real estate issues in the courts and draft contracts for clients so that their agreements evolve to anticipate and reflect changes in the law.
- Howard & Howard's real estate group has played an integral role in helping to establish law for the industry at the appellate level.
Howard & Howard's real estate attorneys approach every project with this philosophy:
- Facilitate client objectives.
- Find creative solutions.
- Produce top-quality work, quickly and efficiently.
- Help clients achieve their next level of success with maximum profitability.
Howard & Howard attorneys are members and participants in a number of national organizations including:
- ICSC
- BOMA
- Michigan Downtown Association
- Main Street Advisory Committee
