Real Estate

KALIS, KLEIMAN & WOLFE has extensive knowledge in both State and Federal laws governing Real Estate. We regularly represent owners, developers, investors, lenders, borrowers, landlords, tenants, and other real estate professionals in every phase of their work, including acquisitions, financing, leasing, permitting, land use and zoning, development, creation and operation of property owners associations, and tax planning.

Our attorneys also have extensive experience in real estate finance and represent financial institutions and borrowers throughout South Florida. We have structured a variety of commercial lending transactions including corporate loans, real estate development loans, asset-based loans, construction loans agribusiness loans and home builder lines of credit. In addition, we assist clients with problem loans and complex loan workouts. Our firm advises financial institutions and their corporate counsel as well as borrowers on a daily basis with respect to general lending issues, including those relating to Florida documentary stamp tax and intangible taxes, and creditors’ rights.

A complicated real estate situation requires a law firm that will articulate the legal complexities in plain language so that you fully understand your options and are empowered to make well-informed choices. Clients come to us for knowledgeable and dedicated legal counsel in the following Real Estate matters:

Services:

• Acquisition and development financing
• Agricultural Classification Application
• Associations and Condominiums
• Attorney Mortgage Services
• Commercial Leases
• Condominium documentation and DCA registration
• Construction lending and negotiations
• Construction litigation
• Contract negotiations
• Development
• Easements and restrictions
• Eminent Domain
• Environmental regulation and litigation
• Financing Transactions
• Foreclosures and work-outs
• Issuance of letter of intent
• Land use planning/development regulation and litigation
• Mortgage Drafting
• Mortgage transactions
• Permit/Variance Applications
• Planning and Zoning Board Approvals
• Purchase and sale transactions
• Real estate tax appeals
• Real property litigation
• Refinancing
• Sales/leasebacks and exchanges
• Sale/Purchase Agreements
• Short sales transactions
• Tax Free Exchanges
• Title questions
• Zoning regulation and litigation

Projects:

• Affordable housing regulation compliance, development and litigation
• Apartment complexes
• Age restricted housing
• Commercial buildings and retail centers
• Condominiums and townhouses
• Health care facilities
• Hotels and resorts
• Mixed use buildings and facilities
• Office and industrial parks
• Office buildings
• Planned Unit Developments
• Residential developments and subdivisions
• Shopping malls and retail centers

Commercial and Real Estate Law attorneys Neal Kalis and M. Scott Kleiman pride themselves on not just being lawyers, but being lawyers and counselors. The firm’s personal attention to its clients’ needs and desired results produces a customized approach that this firm delivers to each case. In 1996, Neal Kalis and M. Scott Kleiman formed KALIS, KLEIMAN & WOLFE to better serve, advise and counsel their respective clients. They are both AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell. Together Neal and Scott have more than 70 years of combined experience and they have participated in thousands of transactions, settlements and trials. KALIS, KLEIMAN & WOLFE has earned a reputation of legal excellence and a history of successfully managing Real Estate Transactions and Real Estate Development cases.

For more information, contact us. We welcome your inquiries.