Experience

 

Selected homebuilder, commercial real estate, development and financing matters handled by our attorneys. Individual attorney admissions vary. We provide services only as permitted by applicable law and work with locally admitted counsel where required.

 

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Homebuilder Acquisitions & Residential Development

 

Land and Residential Acquisitions

 

• Represented a national homebuilder in a three-stage acquisition exceeding $47.5 million for 310 residential units in Loudoun County, Virginia.

   

• Represented a national homebuilder in connection with a $30.6 million conveyance involving 598 residential lots in Chesterfield County, Virginia.

   

• Represented a national homebuilder in connection with a $26.6 million acquisition involving 126 townhouse condominium units in Manassas, Virginia.

   

• Represented a national homebuilder in connection with a $26.45 million acquisition of approximately 172 acres planned for 552 residential lots in Greene County, Virginia.

   

• Represented a national homebuilder in connection with an acquisition involving 186 residential units in Laurel, Anne Arundel County, Maryland.

   

• Represented a national homebuilder in connection with an acquisition involving townhome lots in Fredericksburg, Virginia.

   

• Represented a national homebuilder in connection with an acquisition involving 194 homesites in Henrico County, Virginia.

   

• Represented a national homebuilder in connection with an acquisition involving 72 townhome lots in Albemarle County, Virginia.

   

• Represented a national homebuilder in connection with an acquisition involving 52 age-restricted villa lots in Baltimore County, Maryland.

   

• Represented a national homebuilder in connection with an acquisition involving single-family lots in Baltimore County, Maryland.

   

• Represented a national homebuilder in connection with an acquisition involving a 136-lot residential community in Frederick County, Virginia.

   

• Represented a national homebuilder in connection with a $4.7 million acquisition involving 130 townhome homesites in Richmond, Virginia.

   

• Represented a national homebuilder in the $7 million acquisition of approximately 42 acres for 100 single-family lots in Fauquier County, Virginia.

   

• Represented a national homebuilder in connection with an acquisition involving a waterfront townhome community in Baltimore County, Maryland.

   

 

Finished-Lot Transactions

 

• Represented a national homebuilder in connection with a $27.56 million acquisition involving 112 finished homesites in Ashburn, Virginia.

   

• Represented a national homebuilder in the acquisition of 36 finished lots in Frederick County, Virginia, for an aggregate $4.14 million.

   

• Represented a national homebuilder in a $3.58 million finished-lot transaction in Salisbury, Maryland.

   

• Represented a national homebuilder in an initial finished-lot acquisition in a townhome community in Harford County, Maryland.

   

• Represented a national homebuilder in the $1.1 million acquisition of 20 finished lots in Baltimore County, Maryland.

   

 

Community Associations and Documents

 

• Represented a national homebuilder on community association documents for a 651-lot master-planned resort community in Dorchester County, Maryland.

   

• Represented a national homebuilder on the declaration and community pier covenants for a waterfront community in Baltimore County, Maryland.

   

• Represented a national homebuilder in preparing disclosure and sales documents for two adjoining community associations in Loudoun County, Virginia.

   

 

 

Land Development and Lot Sales

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• Represented the seller in the $22.5 million sale of a 27-acre industrial development site in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, as part of a Section 1031 exchange involving a development agreement, lease terminations and infrastructure and environmental obligations.

   

• Negotiated a land condominium structure and the sale of a land unit to a national franchise.

   

• Advised on the proposed conversion of office and hotel development sites to residential use, addressing prior approvals, infrastructure capacity and site plan requirements.

   

• Provided local zoning analysis supporting national affordable housing developers' applications and projects.

 

 

Commercial Acquisitions and Dispositions

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• Represented purchasers in the $22.5 million acquisition of a five-parcel commercial portfolio in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, involving tenancy-in-common ownership, acquisition financing and two Section 1031 exchanges.
   

• Represented a purchaser in the $17.5 million acquisition of a retail property in Edgewater, Maryland.

   

• Represented the buyer in the $7 million acquisition of an approximately 21,000-square-foot, fully leased mixed-use building in downtown Annapolis, Maryland.

   

• Represented the seller in the $6 million sale of an approximately nine-acre industrial outdoor storage property subject to a ground lease.

   

• Assisted a regional REIT in the acquisition of a $4.75 million, fully leased commercial property in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.

   

• Represented the seller in the $4.25 million sale of a retail and warehouse building in Annapolis, Maryland, including Section 1031 exchange and replacement-property structuring.

   

• Represented a regional developer in simultaneous acquisitions in Morris County, New Jersey, and Prince George County, Virginia.

 

 

Real Estate Finance

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• Represented a Maryland real estate partnership in a $17 million first-lien refinancing of a three-property commercial portfolio, consolidating existing loans into a regional bank facility.

   

• Negotiated and closed a $7.5 million refinancing of a debt facility secured by a retail shopping center, with a life insurance company lender.