Kotz, Sangster, Wysocki & Berg, P.C. lawyers represent participants on all sides of every type of real estate transaction. Our clients include tenants, landlords, developers, lenders, brokers, entrepreneurs, buyers, sellers and investors. We have counseled them in the acquisition, financing, planning, zoning, constructions, leasing and sale of real estate. Through our breadth of experience, we have gained the ability to streamline transactions and readily achieve our clients’ objectives.

Our real estate attorneys provide comprehensive real estate services, including:

Leasing
We draft commercial leases of all types for tenants and landlords. We also handle a variety of landlord-tenant issues, including dispute resolution and evictions. We understand the intricacies of subordinations, non-disturbance, attornment agreements, and all other facets of leasing work.

Financing
On behalf of lenders or borrowers, we handle foreclosures, bankruptcies, creditors’ issues, mechanics liens and workouts of defaulted loans. Our attorneys handle a wide range of financings and refinancings, including acquisitions and development loans, construction loans, permanent loans, synthetic lease and sale-lease transactions, secondary mortgage market mattes, participating loans, local development corporation and Small Business Administration loans.

Acquisitions/Dispositions
In addition to representing buyers and sellers of all kinds of real estate properties, shopping centers, office buildings and multi-family housing, we often handle the real estate aspects of larger transactions, such as acquisitions and dispositions of entire businesses.

Condominiums, Cooperatives and Time-Shares
Our lawyers are well versed in the various legal requirements existing in each jurisdiction in which we practice that relate to the establishment of and governance of condominium and "horizontal property" regimes, time-share and real estate cooperatives.

Construction and Development Contracts
We represent developers, project owners, contractors, subcontractors, architects, engineers and lenders on a host of issues related to construction and development issues, including construction contracts, architects, and other professional service contracts, environmental and other development consulting agreements.

Landlord Work
On an ongoing basis, we represent several clients who own and manage shopping centers, malls, office buildings, warehouse facilities, and office and industrial parks. We have streamlined leasing procedures for landlords who require identical forms for a particular mall or other development, relieving our clients from much of the burden of lease negotiation and administration.