Our firm performs real estate transactional work for a number of mortgage lenders, builders, real estate brokers, and private individuals. We assist with the purchase and sale of real estate, including negotiating and drafting purchase agreements and other documents, ensuring good title, and closings. Experienced attorneys also assist our clients with the legal aspects of financing, re-financing, and foreclosures.

In the course of our representation of these clients, the firm regularly handles matters encompassing:

• Real estate litigation
• Sales and acquisitions of real property and equity and debt interests
• Lender-borrower legal opinions
• Secondary market closings
• Title searches
• Iowa Title Guaranty Certificates
• Title insurance
• Mortgage originations and other real estate finance vehicles
• Mortgage foreclosures
• Equity and debt securitizations
• Property development and construction
• Brokerage and management arrangements
• Land use and zoning