Real Estate

Vasallo Sloane’s real estate practice focuses on advising buyers, sellers, developers, contractors, management companies, landlords and tenants in a wide variety of both routine and complex real estate transactions. We counsel clients on purchases and sales, like-kind exchanges, development, planning and zoning, site planning, construction, leasing, property management, and real estate financing. We support our clients in acquisition due diligence activities, including review of environmental impact reports, recorded impairments, restrictive covenants and conditions, and tenant leases. Our Real Estate Group focuses on the following areas of emphasis:

Real Estate Acquisitions, Sales & Like-Kind Exchanges

• Represent buyers and sellers in a broad range of acquisitions and sales transactions, including the purchase and sale of raw land, multi-family residential complexes, office buildings and parks, retail strip centers, malls, warehouse and industrial buildings, and mixed use developments
• Section 1031 like-kind exchanges
• HUD governed properties
• Federal and state property liquidations and auctions
• Due Diligence support, including environmental, zoning, permitting, easement, restrictions, and negative covenant compliance
• Title insurance support

Real Estate Development

• Negotiation and documentation of real property acquisitions, sales and commercial leases
• Zoning, planning and permitting
• Negotiation of AIA, AGC and other form contracts for retention of architects, general contractors and sub-contractors
• Property management agreements
• Negotiation and documentation of construction and permanent financing agreements
• Review of environmental impact reporting
• Documentation of easement and permissive use agreements, covenants, conditions and restrictions
• Master association and condominium association agreements

Real Estate Finance

• Represent lenders and borrowers in real estate financing transactions
• Construction loans, bridge loans, and permanent financing
• Single borrower securitized loans
• Convertible and mezzanine loans
• Loans backed by credit leases and ground leases

Commercial Leasing

• Represent landlords and tenants on simple and complex leases
• Owner representation on leasing of entire office, warehouse, industrial, retail and mixed use projects
• Ground leases
• Build to Suit
• Sale-Leasebacks
• Listing and management agreements