The attorneys at Brown & Kelly understand the real estate industry and real estate transactions. We have extensive experience in real estate transactions involving commercial, industrial and residential properties. Our clients include investors, property owners, landlords, tenants, developers, builders, financial institutions, construction companies and contractors. Our clients also include condominium and homeowners associations, property managers and municipal housing authorities.
Our attorneys assist clients in negotiations for the purchase, sale and leasing of properties, as well as the preparation of contracts and other documents. Our attorneys are experienced in financing and mortgage transactions, restructuring and workouts, real property valuation and tax-exempt status, zoning, historic districts and structures, tax-deferred exchanges, mortgage transactions, liens and foreclosures.
We are a recognized leader in real property tax assessment review and the valuation of real property. We have a practice dedicated to real property tax assessment proceedings and have broad experience in utility properties and generation facilities, complex industrial and commercial properties and multi-unit and residential properties. Our leadership in the field has been established through several appearances before the New York State Court of Appeals creating law with respect to seminal issues in tax assessment proceedings. We were also counsel in a tax assessment challenge involving one of the largest assessments in Erie County. Our attorneys assist clients in the proper valuation of properties and litigation of assessments in administrative and court proceedings. Our representation also includes negotiations in advance of litigation which often results in tangible benefits to our clients.
Brown & Kelly attorneys are also well experienced in real estate litigation involving claims such as breach of purchase, sale and lease agreements, easement and title disputes, tax assessment proceedings, condemnation and eminent domain proceedings, eviction proceedings and environmental claims.
- Boundary Disputes
- Foreclosures
- Historic Preservation Law
- Home Owners' Associations
- Mortgages
- Real Property Tax Assessment Disputes
- Real Estate Closings
- Surveys
- Title Disputes
- Variances