Practice Areas

Real Estate Transactions

Real estate transactions customarily involve the rights to own, purchase, sell, lease, possess, use, and enjoy land and its improvements. SSHW has extensive experience in Virginia real property law. SSHW represents buyers, sellers, lenders, landlords and tenants in residential and commercial transactions. Our legal experience includes the purchase, sale, development, construction, financing, and leasing of commercial and residential real estate as well as foreclosure, condominium and property owner association matters, including:

  • landlord and tenant relations
  • interests in real property
  • title examinations
  • title insurance policy review and analysis
  • quiet title actions
  • title defects
  • conveyance of real property
  • encumbrances and liens
  • easements
  • judicial and non judicial foreclosure
  • short sales
  • deed in lieu of foreclosure
  • deeds
  • deeds of trust
  • partition actions
  • adverse possession actions
  • real estate closings
  • development and entitlement disputes
  • boundary and easement disputes
  • escrow and earnest money disputes
  • mechanics' lien enforcement
  • realtor commission disputes
  • condemnation and eminent domain actions
  • trespass and nuisance claims
  • disclosure disputes
  • restrictive covenants
  • homeowner's and condominium association