We provide a comprehensive range of real estate legal services designed to protect your property investments and facilitate successful transactions. Whether you're buying, selling, developing, or managing real estate, our experienced attorneys guide you through every aspect of your property journey.
Navigating the purchasing, selling, financing, and development of real property requires a deep understanding of the legal landscape. We assist with residential, commercial, office, industrial, restaurant, and shopping center properties.
Our real estate transactional services include drafting and negotiating purchase agreements, conducting title examinations, managing due diligence processes, and facilitating smooth closings. We structure complex financing arrangements including traditional mortgages, mezzanine loans, construction financing, and sale-leaseback transactions. Our attorneys guide developers through zoning applications, land use permits, environmental compliance, and subdivision approvals, while also negotiating construction contracts and architect agreements. We represent buyers, sellers, landlords, tenants, lenders, and investors in lease negotiations, joint venture agreements, and 1031 tax-deferred exchanges. From resolving title defects and boundary disputes to establishing condominium associations and drafting CC&Rs, we provide the full spectrum of real estate legal services to ensure our clients’ transactions are legally sound and strategically advantageous.
As authorized agents for Old Republic and First American Title Insurance Company, we provide comprehensive services for seamless transactions for buyers, sellers, borrowers, and lenders throughout Florida.
Our title services include conducting thorough title searches, preparing title commitments, clearing liens and encumbrances, issuing owner’s and lender’s title insurance policies, and resolving complex title defects such as boundary disputes, missing heirs, and fraudulent conveyances. We coordinate and conduct residential and commercial closings, manage escrow accounts, prepare settlement statements and closing documents, ensure proper disbursement of funds, and handle post-closing recording of deeds, mortgages, and other instruments with county clerks throughout the state. Our experienced team also facilitates remote and mail-away closings, coordinates simultaneous closings for 1031 exchanges, and provides specialized services for REO properties, short sales, and bulk transactions. Whether addressing mechanic’s liens, negotiating subordination agreements, or curing breaks in the chain of title, we ensure each transaction closes efficiently while protecting all parties’ interests.
Our firm provides legal services to private lenders, banks, and financial institutions. We represent lenders across a wide range of transactions, from commercial real estate loans and construction financing to private lending and portfolio acquisitions.
Our lender services encompass drafting and negotiating loan documents, promissory notes, mortgages, security agreements, and personal guaranties, while ensuring compliance with federal and state lending regulations and Florida usury laws. We conduct thorough due diligence reviews of borrowers, property appraisals, environmental assessments, and title reports, and prepare UCC financing statements to perfect security interests in deal specific collateral. Our attorneys’ structure and document complex transactions. When challenges arise, we guide lenders through loan workouts, modifications, forbearance agreements, deed-in-lieu negotiations, foreclosures, and the appointment of receivers. We also assist with loan portfolio purchases and sales, performing comprehensive due diligence on loan pools, drafting loan sale agreements, and coordinating the assignment and assumption of multiple loans simultaneously, ensuring our lender clients’ interests are protected at every stage of the lending relationship.
Representing single-family, multi-family, and condominium developers requires a comprehensive understanding of the development process. We offer support for project permits, contract negotiation, and more.
Our development practice guides clients from initial land acquisition and assemblage through final unit sales, including negotiating purchase option agreements, drafting joint venture and partnership agreements, securing construction and permanent financing, and preparing development agreements with municipalities. We navigate the complex regulatory landscape by obtaining zoning changes, variances, special exceptions, comprehensive plan amendments, development orders, and site plan approvals, while ensuring compliance with environmental regulations, impact fee requirements, and concurrency standards. Our attorneys draft and negotiate construction contracts, architect agreements, engineering contracts, and subcontractor agreements, and establish protective covenants, HOA/COA governing documents, and association budgets for new communities. We handle all aspects of condominium development including preparing declarations, creating sales programs, drafting purchase contracts with appropriate disclosures, managing bulk sales to investors, and ensuring compliance with Florida’s Condominium Act. From addressing construction defect claims and mechanic's liens to coordinating with title companies for simultaneous closings, we provide end-to-end legal support that keeps development projects on schedule and within budget.
These transactions are critical components of real estate, requiring legal guidance. We assist clients who need to draft contracts for multiple parties in a shared real estate project.
Our multi-party transaction practice includes structuring joint venture agreements that define capital contributions, profit distributions, management rights, and exit strategies, while drafting operating agreements that establish voting protocols, decision-making hierarchies, and dispute resolution mechanisms. We draft buy-sell agreements with valuation formulas, rights of first refusal, and tag-along/drag-along provisions to protect minority investors, while also preparing contribution agreements that address non-cash property contributions, capital calls, and dilution provisions. Whether coordinating simultaneous closings among multiple buyers, structuring seller financing with multiple guarantors, or documenting complex ground lease arrangements with multiple tenants and subtenants, we ensure all parties’ interests are properly documented and protected throughout the transaction lifecycle.
We are experienced in drafting, negotiating, and enforcing all types of real property covenants, contracts, and agreements. You can trust a real estate law attorney from Nunez & Fleischer to put your interests first.
Our practice encompasses residential and commercial purchase and sale agreements, lease agreements ranging from simple residential leases to complex triple-net commercial leases with percentage rent clauses, easement agreements for access, utilities, and conservation purposes, and license agreements for temporary property use. We draft and enforce restrictive covenants including CC&Rs (Covenants, Conditions & Restrictions) for planned communities, architectural review standards, use restrictions, maintenance obligations, and amendment procedures that balance community standards with property rights. Our attorneys prepare sophisticated real estate contracts such as build-to-suit agreements, ground leases with reversionary interests, reciprocal easement agreements (REAs) for shopping centers, property management agreements, brokerage and listing agreements, and option contracts with specific performance provisions. We also handle enforcement actions including covenant violation proceedings, lease default notices and evictions, specific performance lawsuits, declaratory judgment actions to interpret ambiguous provisions, and injunction proceedings to prevent covenant violations.”
Landlord and Tenant representations in connection with lease negotiations, enforcing terms and conditions in Leases, and disputes between Landlord and Tenant for both residential and commercial properties.
Our representation includes drafting and reviewing base rent structures, percentage rent calculations, CAM (common area maintenance) provisions, tenant improvement allowances, exclusive use clauses, co-tenancy requirements, assignment and subletting restrictions, renewal options, and expansion rights. We assist landlords with lease enforcement relating to violations of lease terms and conditions, eviction proceedings, commercial lockouts, collection actions for unpaid rent, and seizure of personal property under landlord’s liens. For tenants, we negotiate lease terms and conditions relating to notice and cure periods, protect against wrongful eviction, enforce quiet enjoyment rights, and pursue constructive eviction claims. Our dispute resolution practice handles security deposit disagreements, maintenance and repair obligations, ADA compliance issues, mold and habitability claims, lease interpretation disputes, abandonment issues, and holdover tenancy matters.
Effective property management is essential for maintaining and enhancing the value of real estate assets. We draft and negotiate property management agreements to ensure properties are managed efficiently and compliantly.
Our representation in connection with property management agreements seek to clearly define the scope of services including rent collection, tenant screening, maintenance coordination, vendor management, financial reporting, and emergency response protocols, while establishing management fees, leasing commissions, markup limitations on repairs, and expense reimbursement procedures. We structure agreements with detailed performance standards, insurance requirements, indemnification provisions, and segregated trust account protocols to protect property owners’ interests (if and as applicable). We negotiate specialized clauses for different property types. Our agreements include termination triggers for poor performance, breach provisions with cure periods, transition procedures for management changes, and requirements for delivering owner records, tenant files, and account reconciliations upon termination. Whether representing institutional owners requiring standardized reporting or individual investors needing hands-on local management, we ensure management agreements align with ownership objectives while maintaining operational flexibility and appropriate oversight controls.