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Multi-Family Housing
Multi-Faceted Experience for Multi-Family Housing
Spencer Fane boasts a wealth of experience in advising multi-family housing clients, providing comprehensive counsel across the full spectrum of their operational needs. The team offers strategic guidance on property management, regulatory compliance, financing, leasing, and dispute resolution, ensuring that clients receive holistic support that extends far beyond the closing of a deal.
Overview
Spencer Fane transactional, real estate, and litigation attorneys have a broad range of experience to assist multi-family housing owners, operators and developers in all aspects of their businesses including the financing, purchasing, development, operation and divestiture of both market-rate and affordable properties.
We help clients through the intricacies of development approval requirements and procedures and provide counsel in the day-to-day issues that arise in multi-family housing, as well as represent clients in any litigation related to the development or operation of these assets throughout the country. With decades of experience representing the multi-family housing industry, our attorneys frequently advise clients on:
- Fair Housing issues
- Reasonable accommodation requests
- Accessibility issues
- Rent control
- Affordable housing program compliance
- Residential lease documentation and the lease-up process
- Privacy rights
- Employment matters
- Retail leasing and other mixed-use issues
- Violence Against Women Act compliance
- Relocation rights
- State and Federal litigation arising from acquisitions, financing, and operations
- Complaints filed with state and local agencies
- Real estate licensing
- Strategic planning, due diligence, entity structure and formation
- Land acquisition
- Sales contracts
- Preparation, review and negotiation of development, design and construction agreements
- Project financing
- Zoning and land use planning
- Environmental regulatory compliance and permitting
- Condominium and subdivision documents
- Property owner association documents