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REAL ESTATE

The Real Estate group at Moss & Barnett is composed of seasoned, pragmatic and responsive practitioners who are pledged to protecting the legal rights of clients while working collaboratively with opposing parties to achieve ultimate closure. This practice group works regularly with developers, lenders, buyers, sellers, landlords and tenants, business owners and property management companies. We also work with title companies, surveyors, brokers, environmental consultants, appraisers and governmental entities.

The services offered by our real estate group include:

  • Buying and selling real estate
  • Retail, industrial and residential development
  • Communications and power transmission infrastructure development
  • Commercial leasing
  • Environmental compliance and assessment
  • National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
  • Use of tribal lands and non-tribal lands with religious or cultural significance
  • Land use regulation and zoning
  • Representing borrowers and lenders in local and national financing and refinancing
  • Government-assisted housing programs
  • Condemnation
  • Real estate tax protests and appeals
  • Boundary line disputes
  • Title to registered lands (Torrens proceedings)
  • Title insurance matters
  • Identification and resolution of title and survey problems
  • Receiverships
  • Real Estate
  • Tax deferred exchanges
  • Tenants in common investments and ownership structures

Financing Transactions

Several of our real estate practitioners routinely represent lenders in a wide range of financing transactions for a variety of real estate projects, including construction loans, forward commitments, bridge and term loans, permanent loans, and revolving lines of credit. These transactions may include a single property or consist of a complex multiple-property pool transaction in multiple jurisdictions.

Multifamily Housing Finance

Our attorneys are recognized nationally for their work in multifamily housing finance involving the closing and delivery of loans secured by multifamily projects to secondary market investors such as Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. They have developed relationships with these investors and expertise in understanding evolving program requirements and documentation. These practitioners have a diverse experience in closing loans secured by multifamily product, whether it is market-rate or affordable, senior housing or assisted-living facilities, condominiums or cooperatives, new construction or rehabilitation. Clients include some of the nation’s largest real estate investment banks, national and state banking associations, and life insurance companies.

National Wireless Communication Providers

Many of our real estate lawyers work with national wireless communications providers in the acquisition and development of wireless network infrastructure, including the related electrical, fiber optic and wireline facilities to support those systems in a number of states throughout the Upper Midwest.

This group also handles the acquisition, development and zoning of regional switching centers and cell site zoning, as well as the acquisition of a multitude of various real property interests acquired from other carriers. These projects include a number of issues that all developers should consider, including:

  • The environmental condition of the real estate
  • The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
  • Issues related to Native Tribal lands and non-Tribal lands with cultural or religious significance
  • Title to real estate
  • Standardizing agreements with current landowners for the conveyance of lands that need not be condemned
  • Analyzing the business risks attendant to acquiring below-par property

To this end, our lawyers work directly with the client’s outside environmental and acquisition consultants as well as the client’s non-lawyer employees.

Extranet

In order to perform our work efficiently, we have refined a system that uses a secure, web-based Extranet to track project status and manage document flow, without compromising confidential information. This system is available to clients on a selective basis.
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Waterfront/Shoreland Zoning Variances - As Clear as Mud
(April 2010)
The Deadline to File An Appeal of the Value Used to Establish 2010 Property Taxes is April 30, 2010
(March, 2010)
The Return of Seller Financing: Contacts for Deed As An Option in Today's Struggling Real Estate Market
(Fall 2009 Firm Newsletter)
The Return of Securitized Lending: Freddie Mac Launches CMBS Loan Product
(September, 2009)
Moss & Barnett Congratulates Its Attorneys Listed in 2009 Rising Stars
(Summer 2009 Firm Newsletter)
Skyrocketing Property Values Return to Earth - Property Taxes May Not: What You Can Do to Make Sure You Are Not Overtaxed
(Spring 2009 Firm Newsletter)
The Deadline to File An Appeal of the Value Used to Establish 2009 Property Taxes is April 30, 2009
(April, 2009)
Brian Grogan Elected to Moss & Barnett Board of Directors and Glen Schumann and Betsy Kiernat Appointed as Adjunct Directors
(January, 2009)
Moss & Barnett Congratulates Its Attorneys Listed in The Best Lawyers in America for 2009
(August 2008)
Moss & Barnett and Saint Paul College Team Up to Present The People's Law School
(September, 2008)
Charles A. Parsons, Jr., and Moss & Barnett Once Again Named to Chambers USA for 2008
(July 2008)
Four New Attorneys Have Joined the Firm
(June 2008 Firm Newsletter)
Moss & Barnett Announces New Shareholders for 2008
(January, 2008)
Charles A. Parsons, Jr., and Moss & Barnett Named to Chambers USA for 2007
(July, 2007)
Charles A. Parsons, Jr., Honored With Distinguished Service Award
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[01/25] Otay Mesa Property, L.P. v. US
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