One of the firm’s strongholds is our extensive real estate practice. Selzer Gurvitch represents clients in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia in all stages of acquiring, developing, financing, leasing and selling real property, including industrial, office, hotel, retail, multifamily and mixed-use properties.

We represent developer clients who acquire raw land and/or existing properties, take them through the entitlement and re-entitlement process with our assistance (including with respect to land use matters in certain jurisdictions) and then construct single family homes, townhomes and condominiums, commercial buildings, and mixed-use projects of all asset types and related infrastructure throughout the DC metropolitan area. Our assistance includes advising clients in the negotiation of the broad range of development and construction documents, joint venture documents, tax planning, as well as with contract administration, close out and enforcement.

We also have extensive experience representing landlords and tenants in negotiating and preparing commercial leases across the spectrum of property types, including commercial office buildings, shopping centers, retail space, medical offices and warehouses. We regularly appear in landlord/tenant court in disputed matters.

As an integral part of our real estate practice, we represent real estate lending institutions, including community, regional and national banks and credit unions. We work with our lending clients to structure and close their loans, whether asset-based or balance sheet-based transactions and to ensure that their loans are properly documented and secured.

In line with the firm’s comprehensive tax focus, our attorneys provide sophisticated tax analysis and planning for our real estate clients to ensure that deal structures are tax-efficient. Among other tax planning strategies, we design and implement sophisticated Internal Revenue Code §1031 like-kind exchange transactions and LLC, partnership and joint venture structures.