At Wofsey Rosen, our real estate lawyers routinely handle a wide variety of real estate and land use transactions for clients, and offer ongoing counseling to help them plan, acquire, finance, manage and develop their holdings. Our real estate lawyers have extensive experience in commercial and residential real estate transactions, including drafting and reviewing sale, purchase and lease documents, conducting title reviews, identifying and resolving easement issues, and conveying property. We deal with all types of properties, including office buildings, common interest communities such as condominiums, planned developments and co-operatives, multi-residential apartment complexes, retail establishments, shopping centers, strip malls, industrial properties, mixed-use properties and private residences.
We represent regional and local banks, financial institutions, and other entities and individuals with respect to acquisition and construction loans for offices, retail strip centers, warehouses, industrial properties, golf courses, multi-family residential properties and land development projects of all kinds. We also represent lenders, lessors and lessees in various types of lease financing transactions. When warranted, we assist financial institutions and developers in the formulation of creative financing strategies, including the establishment of commercial condominiums for the sole purpose of financing multiple-stage projects.
Providing sound representation for land use and real estate matters
In addition to handling transactions, our attorneys regularly represent clients before regulatory boards and agencies related to land use and real estate development issues, as well as in courts of law. Together with our litigation attorneys, we have litigated and negotiated a large variety of real estate matters, including zoning and land use issues, property line disputes, deed restrictions, workouts, loan restructurings, adverse possession, and tax and eminent domain appeals. Our attorneys have extensive experience in the defense and prosecution of commercial and residential foreclosures. Because of our firm’s prominent role in litigating before the Connecticut Housing Court, we also are well-equipped to assist our real estate clients in commercial and residential landlord-tenant law and litigation.
Land Use Matters
Wofsey Rosen’s experienced land use and zoning lawyers represent developers as well as individuals before boards and agencies such as planning & zoning commissions, harbor commissions, inland wetlands agencies and zoning boards of appeal. Many of our attorneys have served on municipal boards and commissions, including planning and zoning commissions, and have a comprehensive understanding of not just the process, but also the players, and can provide valuable guidance and advise as to the best strategy to accomplish our clients’ goals. Our land use attorneys work hand-in-hand with our real estate and business law attorneys to ensure a 360-degree approach is taken to serve our clients. When we are unable to resolve land use matters at the administrative level, we are adept at litigating these matters at all levels of court in Connecticut.
We are large enough that some of the biggest developers in Fairfield County and the State come to us for land use and zoning assistance; but we are small enough that many homeowners looking to obtain a variance or to raise or construct a home in a floodplain or near wetlands also call us for help.
We work with many of the premier surveyors, engineers, traffic engineers, soil and wetlands scientists, architects, and landscape architects in Connecticut so that our clients have a complete team on their side.
Helping Commercial and High-End Residential Property Owners Fight Excess Taxes
In Connecticut, municipalities revalue real estate once every five years for tax purposes. Challenging your assessment and taxes is a very technical process with tight deadlines and many traps for the unwary. Wofsey, Rosen regularly represents commercial property owners as well as high value residential property owners in contesting unreasonably high assessments. We work with many of the area’s best real estate appraisers in order to maximize potential outcomes. While we have tried many tax appeal cases to verdict, our strategy is to best position your appeal for a quick and fair resolution that maximizes your return and minimizes your cost. We regularly engage in informal and formal settlement conferences with Tax Assessors throughout the State and we prosecute appeals for clients statewide. We handle tax appeal cases on an hourly fee basis, on a flat fee basis, and on a contingency fee basis. If you believe your taxes and assessment is too high, please read this article and then reach out to us.
To learn more about resolving your residential and commercial real estate issues, please contact the firm or reach out to any of the attorneys below.
