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Our firm has always been well known for its real estate
practice. Our real estate practice is quite diverse,
ranging from transactions involving the construction,
acquisition and sale of large commercial properties
(including office buildings, hotels and shopping centers)
to those involving smaller businesses and residential
real estate. One of our lawyers (Peter S. Title) is a
frequent lecturer, and the author of a widely used and
recognized multi-volume treatise on Louisiana real estate
transaction (with forms). The following are just some of the things
our real estate lawyers do:
- Handling purchase, sale, lease, and sale-leaseback
transactions.
- Handling real estate developments.
- Preparing commercial and residential
mortgages.
- Negotiating and documenting interim and permanent
financing.
- Performing title examinations, providing title
opinions and issuing title insurance policies.
- Handling commercial and residential loan closings.
- Advising about zoning, construction, environmental
and land use requirements.
Our real estate clients include financial
institutions, insurance companies, corporations,
shopping center developers and lessees, local
universities, title insurance companies, landowners and developers. Here are just some of
the things we have helped our real estate clients do:
- Develop and finance of one of the largest residential
subdivisions in the New Orleans area.
- Form condominiums and luxury apartments.
- Sell central business district property to a large
national hotel chain.
- Lease property to a national cinema operator for
the construction and operation of a nine-theater cinema.
- Transfer more than 18,000 acres to the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service to help create Bayou Sauvage
National Wildlife Refuge, one of the largest urban
wildlife refuges in the nation.
- Purchase and sell various shopping centers, office
buildings, hotels and mixed-use developments.
- Negotiate and enter into commercial leases for shopping
centers, office buildings and mixed-use developments.
- Obtain zoning and other land-use changes and approvals
to facilitate land development projects.
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