Our real estate attorneys offer comprehensive, full-service representation for individual buyers and sellers, business entities, developers, lenders, and title companies, in the acquisition, financing, insurance, use, development, and sale of residential and commercial real estate.

Our areas of practice include:

  • Commercial and residential transactions and title work
  • Financing and project planning
  • Land conservation
  • Environmental and land use planning, subdivision, and development
  • Regulatory and environmental court appeals, including tax appeals
  • Permitting, land use, and regulation issues
  • Land development
  • Common interest communities
  • Family succession planning
  • Condemnation
  • Commercial leases and lease disputes

We are agents for both Chicago Title Insurance Company and First American Title Insurance Company, and can assist with title insurance.

Our real estate and estate planning attorneys often collaborate in assisting clients to implement their estate and succession plans in order to streamline the administration of family trusts and estates and minimize tax consequences. Our broad real estate knowledge also informs our litigation and regulatory practices, including enforcement of judgments.

Working alongside our litigation practice, we represent individuals, municipalities, and businesses, including title insurance companies, in title and/or boundary disputes, condemnation award proceedings, tax appeals, partition actions, and other civil litigation related to real estate.

We have extensive experience with and knowledge of Vermont’s real estate laws and title concerns, and are able to provide prompt, professional, and pragmatic responses to the issues facing our clients. Because each client is different, we tailor our approach to each transaction to most efficiently meet our client’s needs.