Real Estate & Land Use Practice Group
Overview
The goal of the Real Estate & Land Use Practice Group is to meet the real estate development needs of all our clients. Our Real Estate practice group has the experience to provide a full range of legal services, whether for a buyer or seller, landlord or tenant, lender or borrower, contractor or owner, major real estate developer, shopping center owner, national or local tenant or first time home buyer.
Attorneys within the firm’s Real Estate & Land Use Practice Group have a wide range of knowledge and skill in real estate and related matters, with backgrounds in leasing, development, title work, zoning, insurance, land use, environmental issues and municipal government laws and regulations. They work closely with all other practice areas within the firm to ensure that our clients’ needs are met.
As teachers and lecturers in real estate and ancillary fields, the members of the Real Estate Department remain at the forefront ready to assist our clients in all matters involving or related to real estate.
capabilities
The Real Estate & Land Use Practice Group’s broad areas of practice are as follows:
- Asset Based Lending
- Commercial and Residential Mortgage Lending
- Commercial Leasing
- Commercial Real Estate
- Conservation Easements
- Construction Law
- Land Use and Zoning Law
- Lender Liability Issues
- Loan Work Outs and Debt Restructuring
- Municipal LawReal Estate Development
- Residential Real Estate
- SBA and Grant Funding
- Tax Credit Financing
attorneys
- William B. Magnarelli, Chair | [email protected] | Biography
- Jerry Cosgrove | [email protected] | Biography
- Jeffrey M. Fetter | [email protected] | Biography
- Mark N. Levy | [email protected] | Biography
- R. Michael Shafer | [email protected] | Biography
publications
New Homeowners Must Register to Receive NYS STAR Exemption, by Kelly J. Graves
Solar Leases – Property Owners Beware, by Kelly J. Graves
resources
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- eTax Search – (All 5 NYC Boroughs)
- Recording Tracker – (All 62 NYS Counties)
- Property Search – (All 62 NYS Counties)
- Recording Data/Index (Mortgage, Deed, etc.) – (All 5 NYC Boroughs)
- Judgments and Liens (All 5 NYC Boroughs)
- NYC – Direct Link to Department of Finance – (All 5 NYC Boroughs)
- NYC – Direct Link to Department of Environmental Protection (Water Bills – All 5 NYC Boroughs)
- Recorded Documents (All 5 NYC Boroughs and Other Select Counties)
- Bankruptcy System
Client Alert
Solar Leases – Property Owners Beware, by Kelly J. Graves
The Real Estate Practice Group issues Frequently Asked Questions on Title Insurance