Real Estate Law Minnesota + Wisconsin
The Real Estate team at Lommen Abdo has dedicated attorneys with vast experience who focus on property rights and are committed to the best outcome for our clients. When you need someone to fight for your rights related to a real estate or title issue, or someone to help you get a deal done, contact Lommen Abdo.
MN + WI Real Estate Lawyers
Our Real Estate group offers significant experience in the purchase and sale and/or financing and leasing of commercial real estate properties including shopping centers, office buildings, medical buildings, office/warehouse, industrial and other developments. We tailor our legal services to the specific real estate needs the client presents. Our goal is to deliver efficient, cost effective and practical solutions to our clients’ real estate problems.
Our areas of focus include:
- Real estate transactions
- Purchases, sales and financing
- Lease negotiation and drafting
- Municipal approvals
- Subdivisions and leasing
- Permanent loans, construction loans, loan modifications and workouts
- Tax increment financing
- Real estate litigation
- Leasing and contract disputes, mortgage foreclosures, cancellation of contact for deed proceedings, and landlord/tenant disputes
- Real property tax disputes
- Zoning and land use disputes
- Eminent domain
- Partnerships and limited liability companies
- Corporate merger and acquisition work
- Boundary law
- Mortgage foreclosure and mortgage loan workout
Lommen Abdo’s Real Estate group is anchored by Bob Abdo in Minnesota and Brent Johnson in Wisconsin.
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Comprehensive Legal Services in Minnesota and Wisconsin Real Estate Matters
Commercial – Purchase and Lease
If you’re looking to purchase commercial property, we can help protect you from future liability – such as preexisting environmental hazards – which could become your responsibility once you own the property. If you’re looking to lease a commercial property, let one of our experienced attorneys look over the lease before you sign. We can help ensure you are protected from extra fees, losing your deposit, not having the ability to hang signage where you would like and a host of other potential pitfalls.
Property Tax Appeals
In the real estate world, property taxes are generally the largest expense for commercial property owners, landlords and even investors. Any of these groups, property owners and tenants have the right to appeal their property taxes and we can help.
We find the most common issues to be disagreement over the estimated fair market value of the property and ensuring the correct classification of the property. Lommen Abdo has worked with many clients who have appealed their property taxes and won, reducing their tax obligations significantly.
Real Estate and Title Litigation
We speak the language of real estate and title insurance.
Our attorneys know real estate and title insurance law. When litigation becomes necessary, our experienced trial attorneys will be your advocates in any type of related dispute. Our real estate and title insurance litigation team is headed by Keith Broady and includes Mike Moline, Reid Lindquist, Jamie Johnson, Brent Johnson, and Josh Feneis. We practice before the Minnesota and Wisconsin state and federal courts, both trial and appellate, as well as administrative hearings, arbitration, and mediation. Our clients include developers, investors, lenders, owners, commercial tenants, purchasers and sellers, lessors, lessees and title insurers.
Areas of focus:
- Disputes arising out of purchase agreements or options
- Commercial, industrial, and retail lease disputes
- Builder/developer disputes
- Zoning and land use disputes
- Property insurance coverage disputes, including title insurance
- Bankruptcy disputes
- Mechanic’s and other liens
- Adverse possession, encroachment, and trespass claims
- Eminent domain/taking actions
- Water rights
- Easement, boundary and title disputes
- Claims for injury to real property
- Construction litigation
- Title defect litigation
- Title conveyance issues
- Easement and access disputes
- Surveys and boundary disputes
- Quiet title actions
- Restrictive covenants
- Professional liability and agent error and omissions
- Validity and priority of liens
- Real property tax appeals
- Real estate lending
- Mortgage foreclosure
- Loan workouts
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News + Articles
Resurvey Issues
Land Surveys in Minnesota: Origins, Technological Changes and Implications While obtaining a new survey of farmland may appear on its face to be a simple process, it can result in confusion or dispute as to the true location of your property’s boundaries. This article...
Lauren Nuffort Receives 2018 President’s Award of the Minnesota Defense Lawyers Association
Lauren Nuffort was the joint recipient of the 2018 Minnesota Defense Lawyer’s Association (MDLA) President’s Award. Each year at the Association’s annual meeting, the MDLA President has the privilege of bestowing upon a member the President’s Award to recognize his...
Case Law Update
Farmers Were Not “Farmers” for Purposes of Conservation Easement Charitable Deduction Rutkoski v. Comissioner, 149 T.C. 6 (August 7, 2017). THE PARTIES: Mark Rutkoske and Felix Rutkoske are brothers who engaged in a farming operation through various business entities...
Homeowner associations must comply with new requirements
Townhome, condominium, and other homeowner associations are typically part of what is called a common interest community, or CIC. An association may be organized in the form of a profit, nonprofit, or cooperative organization, but CICs are generally controlled by the...
Lommen Abdo Prevails in Shorted Fringe Fund Claims Trial
Federal Judge Patrick Schiltz completely vindicated Lommen Abdo’s client, Frana Companies, in a decision filed in March 2017.* Keith Broady was the lead defense attorney for Frana, a general contractor, in a case that spanned over three and half years, including nine...
Clients Prevail on Damages in Encroachment Case: Remand to Decide Whether Building Must Be Removed
Lommen Abdo lawyers Kay Nord Hunt and Michael Moline recently won a real estate boundary dispute case that provides new precedent for analyzing trespass damages related to encroaching buildings. The Minnesota Court of Appeals clarified the relief available for...
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