Real Estate Disputes
We handle a wide array of real estate disputes for clients ranging from individuals to banking institutions.
Areas of Focus
- Adverse possession
- Boundary line disputes
- Easements and licenses
- Breach of contract
- Broker disputes
- Clouds on title
- Constructive trusts
- Contested estate and trust proceedings
- Contract deposit and escrow disputes
- Down-payment disputes
- Fraudulent conveyance and forgery
- Judgment execution
- Landlord-tenant disputes, including non-payment and holdover proceedings
- Lien priority disputes
- Management disputes
- Mechanic’s lien enforcement and defense
- Mortgage foreclosure
- Neighbor disputes
- Notice of pendency
- Ownership disputes
- Partition and sale
- Quiet title actions
- Tax lien foreclosure and redemption
- UCC lien enforcement and defense
Representative Matters
- Defeated a contract vendee’s summary judgment motion seeking to invalidate client’s ownership of commercial real estate
- Awarded summary judgment on behalf of cooperative corporation shareholder, defeating board’s attempt to cancel and rescind client’s shares and lease of apartment
- Obtained judgment of foreclosure and sale in private lender’s contested commercial mortgage foreclosure action
- Established priority of a $7 million mortgage lien over a competing $4 million mortgage lien
- Obtained favorable settlement for owner of New York City mixed-use building allegedly damaged by nearby demolition activity
- Obtained favorable settlement for lender in action seeking to set aside mortgage due to alleged fraud
- Negotiated favorable settlement in complex, multi-party partition action
- Obtained judgment after trial upholding purchase of apartment building from not-for-profit corporation whose board sought to rescind sale due to alleged fraud
We invite you to contact us for more information or to schedule a consultation.