Our commercial real estate attorneys recognize that acquisitions of real estate are often a client's most significant financial investment and require organization, attention to detail and concentrated oversight. Our staff of closers and secretaries boast years of experience devoted exclusively to real estate work. Our technology is advanced. In complex transactions, our team coordinates the efforts of our clients' surveying, environmental, appraiser and title consultants. We take pride in the depth of our knowledge and experience, and in the quality of the service we provide to our clients.

Our Commercial Real Estate Services

Our Commercial Real Estate Team attorneys represent:

• Purchasers and sellers of commercial and residential real estate throughout the state (involving individual parcels of land, large tracts of land, apartment buildings, retail and industrial centers)
• Mortgage companies and institutional lenders on residential and commercial loan reviews, document preparation, and loan closings (purchase money financing, mortgage refinancing, mortgage modifications, construction financing)
• Borrowers on residential mortgage loans, commercial mortgage loans, construction financing, mortgage modifications and refinancing
• Developers in the procurement of project registration approvals from the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs in connection with the Planned Real Estate Development Full Disclosure Act (planned unit developments, age-restricted communities, residential condominiums) and reinstatements of builder registrations, including preparation of public offering statements, master deeds, declaration of covenants and restrictions, association by-laws, and PREDFDA applications
• Sponsors in the creation of residential, commercial and mixed-use condominium projects, co-op conversions, and in the incorporation of condominium and homeowner associations
• Developers in the turnover or transition of homeowners/condominium association control to homeowners
• Developers in connection with preparation of limited purpose (e.g., detention basin, landscaped islands) homeowners associations for residential subdivisions
• Developers and property owners in connection with preparation and negotiation of deeds of easements and deeds of dedication
• Assignors and assignees of riparian rights
• Landlords and tenants in negotiation and preparation of commercial leases
• Mortgagees with respect to acquisitions of real estate by foreclosure and deeds in lieu of foreclosure and the sale of real estate
• Title companies in defending and resolving title claims and property owners in making title insurance claims
• Property owners in connection with purchase option, boundary line, developer and reciprocal easement agreements
• Property owners with respect to site plan, subdivision, and variance applications to municipal planning and zoning boards
• Public authorities and property owners with respect to condemnations of land
• Property owners with respect to IRC Section 1031 tax-deferred exchanges of real estate
• Public bodies relative to the acquisition of open space land and conservation restrictions, and applications for Green Acres funding
• Purchasers and sellers of public watersheds and waterfront development rights
• New home warranty companies and home builders trade associations

Representative Clients

Our Commercial Real Estate Attorney Team represents large and small corporations and business entities; real estate developers; municipal, state, and county bodies; agencies and authorities; individuals; mortgage companies and institutional lenders with respect to acquisitions, sales, leasing and financing of commercial real estate.

Our Commercial Real Estate Attorneys

The Wilentz firm is a Master Sponsor of the New Jersey Builders Association (NJBA), the preeminent trade association of home builders and associated trades in the state of New Jersey.  We serve as special counsel to the NJBA and have appeared before the New Jersey Supreme Court on its behalf.  Many of our attorneys serve on the NJBA Legal Action, Legislative and Land Use committees, are active real estate seminar panelists and are featured authors in home builders periodicals.  We have served as general counsel to the Central Jersey Builders Association, a local chapter of the NJBA, for nearly 20 years.  We are proud of the recognition awards that our attorneys have earned from both the NJBA and the Central Jersey Builders Association.

Our commercial real estate attorneys are affiliated with the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP), Industrial and Commercial Real Estate Women (ICREW), the New Jersey League of Community Bankers, the New Jersey State Bar Association, Middlesex County Bar Association and the American Bar Association.