Real Estate
Hopping Green & Sams has an active real estate practice with extensive experience in real estate projects in Florida. We assist our clients in every facet of the real estate practice from acquisition and permitting to development and sale. We represent developers and landowners in the acquisition, development, sale and leasing of major industrial and commercial projects, housing projects, hotels and motels, industrial parks, office complexes, shopping centers, condominiums, apartments, subdivisions, office parks, brownfield development and other developments. We are frequently involved with matters involving land use, water rights and water use. The firm also assists its clients with other real estate-related legal issues, including due diligence analysis, environmental clean-up compliance, title disputes and the drafting of easements.
The firm’s real estate practice focuses on the needs of clients such as sophisticated businesspeople, land owners, and developers. Our attorneys provide comprehensive representation through changing business cycles and at all levels, from managing the legal aspects of large land deals and construction projects, to assisting developers in meeting tough environmental regulations, to advising in all aspects of transactional work. We not only have represented land owners and developers before the agencies, but have also acted as counsel to counties, cities and special districts throughout Florida in their permitting processes.
The firm’s statewide practice provides our attorneys with invaluable “local knowledge” of Florida’s communities and regulators from Pensacola to Jacksonville and to the ends of the Keys. We have the contacts with and reputation among other practitioners, third-party consultants, experts and advisors that are critical to the successful resolution of a real estate transaction.
Our areas of focus include:
- Acquisitions and Sales
- Development
- Environmental Regulations, Due Diligence, and Compliance
- Financing
- Leasing
- Land Use and Zoning
- Workouts and Restructuring
Practicing Attorneys: Winston Borkowski, Katie S. Buchanan, Brian Crumbaker, Carl Eldred, Gary Hunter, Jr., and Doug Smith.