Real Estate

Whether purchasing, selling, financing, leasing, or developing real estate, individuals and businesses are faced with a complex array of structuring, title, regulatory, and tax issues. Many of these pressure points are not readily apparent to even the most discerning of clients. Most involve a combination of legal and “business-deal” considerations that need to be resolved in tandem to achieve maximum results.  Our real estate clients rely on MacDonald Illig’s strategic resources and collaborative approach to attain the best resolutions to their real estate issues.

However complex your real estate matter, our Real Estate Practice Group has the experience and insight to provide thoughtful and timely advice, skillful work, and exceptional advocacy to you or your business. You need to get a deal done. MacDonald Illig is here to help you make that happen.

The Resources to Help with Any Real Estate Matter

Our Real Estate attorneys represent residential and commercial sellers and purchasers of real estate, developers of subdivisions, condominiums, and commercial plazas, and title insurance companies faced with complex title issues.  MacDonald Illig has a particular focus in advising governmental and investor clients in matters related to upset and Erie County judicial tax sales.  Sophisticated lenders and borrowers regularly rely on our real estate finance team to prepare and negotiate real estate loan and collateral documentation.  We represent both landlords and tenants in structuring commercial leases and resolving landlord-tenant disputes in both the residential and commercial context.

Among the other types of matters with which our real estate lawyers regularly assist our clients are closings and settlements; property tax assessments, exemptions and appeals, land use, zoning, and subdivisions, distressed real estate, foreclosures, urban renewal, and land banking, nonprofit low income housing, commercial real estate transactions, construction financing, leasing of oil, gas and minerals, and insuring of real estate titles and curing of title defects.  MacDonald Illig is a licensed title insurance agent for First American Title Insurance Company and Fidelity National Title Insurance Company.

In addition to the members of our Real Estate Practice Group, our real estate clients have access to the wealth of legal resources available from MacDonald Illig’s other practice groups, including: Litigation, Environmental & Energy, Tax Planning & Representation, Banking & Finance, Construction Law, and Government Services.

Our Team is Your Team

With the bench strength to deliver high quality, timely service, our Real Estate lawyers and paralegals partner with you, our clients, to provide dependable and trustworthy representation in the handling of all of your real estate needs.  Whatever real estate matter you may be facing, the goal of our team at MacDonald Illig is to exceed your expectations.