Practice Areas

Real Estate

Silver, Garvett & Henkel has a comprehensive real estate practice handling all types of real estate transactions and investments from the purchase of a first home to complex commercial property acquisitions and development. The firm also represents brokers in transactions to protect commission entitlements. Silver, Garvett & Henkel offers a wide range of residential and commercial real estate services and has the experience to apply creative approaches regardless of the complexity of the transaction. Scott Silver heads the firm’s real estate practice and is available for consultation on all real estate transactions.

The firm’s clients include: purchasers, sellers, brokerage firms, leasing companies, financiers, and developers regarding all types of real property. The firm’s real estate attorneys possess real world experience as both investors and developers and, thus, are able to provide unique and practical insights, whether the transaction involves the purchase or sale of property with an existing structure, or the development of commercial properties. SG&H’s real estate attorneys advise clients in commercial acquisitions of hotels and other residential buildings, retail shopping centers, office buildings, and manufacturing facilities. The firm represents clients in restructurings, complex commercial leases and sale\lease-back transactions, purchase contract negotiations, and in the structuring of financing options for both lenders and borrowers including convertible loans, joint ventures, and mezzanine loans.

The firm’s real estate attorneys are also able to issue title insurance issued for both residential and commercial properties through nationally recognized title insurance underwriters. Our title insurance clients include individual investors, corporations, brokers, investment companies, and financial advisors seeking to help maximize the value of their real estate holdings.

Silver, Garvett & Henkel also provides legal representation in eminent domain and inverse condemnation matters. The government may take private property for a public purpose or essentially take the property through over-regulation. A more recent trend is takings by community redevelopment agencies so that private, not-for-profit companies may redevelop an area. The firm can assist property owners in seeking adequate compensation for the constitutionally protected value of their property through eminent domain and inverse condemnation proceedings.

The complexity of certain real estate matters may also require legal assistance through business litigation and asset protection, both of which services Silver, Garvett & Henkel provide. Combining multifaceted real estate experience as attorneys, developers, and investors, and a multi-disciplinary approach to legal representation, the firm is able to provide assist its clients to succeed in an increasingly complex real estate market.

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