Real Estate
We handle commercial and residential real estate transactions, representing financial institutions, portfolio and private lenders, buyers, sellers, lenders, borrowers, developers and brokers in real estate closings and financings, and regularly advise clients on how best to structure or restructure their real estate and mortgage assets. We handle transactions throughout the State of Florida and United States, serving as a full-service title and escrow company for First American National Title Insurance Company, Fidelity National Title Insurance Company, and Old Republic National Title Insurance Company. Our established record as title agent with all three of the largest title underwriters in the United States, permits us to better serve our clients.
We often assist our clients as closing agents, providing title insurance for acquisitions, loans, financings and refinancings, and we assist to convey property in the best manner possible to maintain title insurance coverage, consider privacy issues, minimize transfer taxes and achieve client objectives. Our advice on structuring requires proper tax planning before acquisition, during ownership, and upon sale or disposition, and we tailor our advice to each particular client and have extensive experience with foreign clients and families that are both foreign and domestic.
This includes:
- Structuring foreign investment, as well as entity formation and compliance
- Purchase of properties from developers (new developments) and review of developer contracts for purchase and sale and condominium documents
- Real estate financing
- Review and preparation of commercial and residential purchase and sale contracts
- Due diligence investigations
- Title review and examination, and resolution of title issues
- Acting as closing agent / title agent for residential and commercial transactions and financings
- Sale and purchase of real estate owned (REO) and mortgages from financial institutions and private investors
- Purchase of properties at foreclosure
- Property conveyancing
- Obtaining federal tax identification numbers (TIN) and IRS FIRPTA compliance
- Commercial leasing, including offices, retail and shopping centers.