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Real Estate Law

Minnesota Real Estate Law Attorneys

Real estate law is one of the pillars of our practice at Thomsen & Nybeck in Edina, Minnesota. Our real estate practice includes commercial and residential transactions, real estate brokerage law, litigation, and counseling buyers, sellers and land developers.

Our clients include commercial and residential developers, contractors, brokers and real estate agents, local and national banks and lending institutions, property managers, community associations, resorts, landlords, tenants, trade associations, individuals and businesses. For these clients, our lawyers provide a wide range of services, including:

  • Advising and representing commercial and residential buyers and sellers
  • Drafting, reviewing and reviewing purchase and sale agreements
  • Handling for sale-by-owner transactions and advising FSBO sellers
  • Advising property owners on disclosure responsibilities
  • Representation at closing or assistance with pre-closing document review
  • Advising clients regarding title and property ownership
  • Representing buyers and sellers in disclosure issues that arise post-closing
  • Financing for real estate investments
  • Land acquisition for improved and unimproved property
  • Land use regulation, including planning and zoning
  • Environmental site assessments
  • 1031 exchanges for commercial property
  • Insurance defense for claims against agents and brokers in coordination with their Errors and Omissions (E and O) insurance
  • Litigation representation for real estate agents, real estate companies, title companies and individuals
  • Boundary disputes and adverse possession claims
  • Construction contracts
  • Construction defect litigation
  • Townhome and condominium law
  • Drafting and reviewing lease agreements
  • Advising commercial or residential landlords and tenants
  • Mechanic's lien actions
  • Mortgage foreclosure actions and cancellations
  • Buyer and seller arbitration
  • Partition actions
  • Transaction disputes

For more than 20 years, our attorneys have represented the Minnesota Association of Realtors, which is a statewide trade association for REALTORS® with more than 24,000 members. Our lawyers staff the association's legal hotline and their professional standards process, including ethics and arbitration proceedings. We teach continuing real estate law education seminars to attorneys and brokers throughout Minnesota.

Our staff includes lawyers who are certified by the Minnesota State Bar Association as real property law specialists. Our lawyers have published numerous articles on real estate law in noteworthy publications and magazines.

For more information about our real estate law practice, contact the attorneys at Thomsen & Nybeck. From our offices in Edina, we serve clients throughout the Minneapolis-St. Paul area and greater Minnesota.