McCormack Suny’s Commercial Real Estate Practice is results oriented and skilled at handling all types of real estate matters. Our clients look to us to provide advice and services on a full range of corporate real estate issues including leasing, permitting, development, use, acquisition, disposition, management, and construction and operation of commercial real estate. We have extensive experience in commercial real estate, and our practice of efficient, cost-effective, sound client tailored legal solutions coupled with strong business acumen means clients are in the best of hands.
Our clients include national and multinational companies with extensive real estate holdings and issues, commercial real estate development companies, real estate investors, entrepreneurs, property owners, commercial tenants.
Our attorneys have been involved in numerous real estate matters and bring unique practical business perspectives to each issue.
Bringing CRE Industry Experience to Your Transaction
For decades, we have been helping individuals and institutions of all sizes keep their projects moving forward with strong, cost-effective legal guidance.
Our attorneys assist investors, developers, property owners, contractors and tenants to expedite their important and complex real estate law matters, including:
- Commercial development
Including development plans, site acquisition and disposition transactions with governmental agencies
- Commercial leasing
Including office, retail, manufacturing, mixed use, and biotech and life sciences facilities
- Zoning and permitting
Including municipal, state and federal zoning and permitting matters, as well as environmental oversight
- Acquisitions and Dispositions
- Real estate disputes
Including damage claims, defense of permits and title disputes
Results
- obtained Judgment in Favor a Row-house owner (Bay Village, Boston) after three-day Land Court trial defeating claims of abandonment and expanding the rationale of 1959 SJC case to allow third-party invitees (Air BnB), contractors, tenants etc. to be included in a “Right of way” drafted in 1890 which traversed across neighboring back yards.
- Successfully handled variance and subsequent abutter litigation of Charlestown Row House (Monument Square) Owner for alleged trespass in property line dispute.
- Obtaining a preliminary injunction in ongoing specific performance action to enforce contract to sell $2.0 million beach house. Obtained a lis pendens, a TRO, and forced the defendants to sell to the plaintiffs, with the damages part of the case is still pending
Also, regularly prosecute and defend commercial summary process (eviction and rent lawsuits) on a highly cost effective basis to successful results including:
- Obtaining a judgment for a commercial landlord after a two-day trial for $217,000 in unpaid rent and attorneys fees and settling same for almost full value of the claim recovered;
- Obtaining a judgment for a commercial landlord after a three-day bench trial for unpaid use and occupancy of $330,000, including piercing the corporate veil, and using that to leverage a highly favorable buyout of minority owner’s interest in the premises.
- Obtaining a $148,000 judgment for unpaid accelerated rent (liquidated damages) and attorneys fees and successfully obtaining a substantial bond amount that was forfeited to the client when the appeal was dismissed for procedural reasons on our motion