Real estate law is one of the pillars of our practice at Thomsen Nybeck in Bloomington, Minnesota. Our real estate practice includes commercial and residential transactions, real estate brokerage law, litigation, bank representation, and counseling buyers, sellers and land developers.
Our clients include individuals and businesses, commercial and residential developers, contractors, closing companies, property managers, community associations, resorts, landlords, and real estate agents and brokerages.
Our lawyers provide comprehensive real property services in the following areas:
Real Estate Advice/Planning
- Advising and representing individuals in the purchase, sale, and lease of residential homes and apartments
- Advising and representing businesses in the lease, acquisition, and sale of commercial real estate
- Drafting, reviewing and negotiating purchase agreements, lease agreements, financing, construction contracts, contracts for deed, and title work, and other real estate documents
- Advising potential purchasers within a homeowners' association regarding governing documents and/or resale disclosure certificates
- Handling for sale-by-owner transactions and advising FSBO sellers
- Advising property owners on disclosure responsibilities
- Representing clients at closings or in pre-closing document review
- Advising property purchasers regarding acquiring title insurance
- Preparing, interpreting, drafting, or creating easement agreements
- Creating promissory notes, mortgages and other financing documents for real estate investments
- Transferring title to real estate in connection with estates and trusts
- Creating corporations, LLCs, and partnerships for real estate transactions
- Advising and assisting real estate agents and brokerages manage risk and create independent contractor agreements
- Representing state and local Realtor associations, and teaching continuing education courses for Realtor associations and real estate agents and brokerages
- Land acquisition for improved and unimproved property, and land use regulation, including planning and zoning, and environmental assessment
- Assisting clients in connection with 1031 Exchanges, including commercial property
- Representing associations and common interest communities (CICs) in townhome and condominium law matters, assisting with ongoing management, risk management efforts
- Advising clients on their rights and responsibilities in wind energy projects
- Drafting and reviewing leases for commercial and residential landlords
Real Estate Disputes/Lawsuits:
- Assisting with adverse possession claims, eminent domain, boundary disputes, partition actions, and clearing clouds on title
- Assisting with lien and lien foreclosure matters
- Advising clients regarding title and property ownership disputes, including representation in a Proceeding Subsequent or quiet title action
- Representing buyers and sellers in lawsuits or arbitrations addressing disclosure issues that arise post-closing
- Defending real estate agents in investigations initiated by the Department of Commerce or the Attorney General's office
- Representing clients in construction defect litigation and arbitration
- Representing Common Interest Communities (CIC/townhome association) in disputes with vendors/contractors or members of the association
- Insurance defense for claims against agents and brokers, appraisers, and closing companies in coordination with their Errors and Omissions real estate agents and brokerages (E and O) insurance
- General civil litigation related to mechanics' liens, transaction disputes and other real estate matters
- Counseling clients in mortgage foreclosure actions, cancellations, and mortgage foreclosure postponement
Knowledge, Experience and Leadership in Real Estate Law
Our staff includes lawyers who are certified by the Minnesota State Bar Association as real property law specialists. Our firm also represents major trade associations in the area of real estate. Many of our attorneys have published numerous articles on real estate law, taught continuing legal education (CLE) courses throughout the state, and appear regularly in courts both in and outside the Minneapolis/St. Paul metropolitan area.
Contact Our Commercial Real Estate Lawyers Serving St. Paul
For more information about our real estate law practice, contact the attorneys at Thomsen Nybeck. From our offices in Bloomington, we serve clients throughout the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, and greater Minnesota.