Real Estate Litigation

This type of litigation arises from a variety of sources, some of which include buyer/seller disputes over failure to disclose defects as part of a residential real estate transaction, disputes among or between adjoining property owners regarding easements, boundary lines, water rights and water run off, and disputes among neighbors regarding illegal use of property.

Debra Valenti-Epstein and John Hagarty have extensive experience in a wide variety of real estate litigation. Their practice covers the following areas:

• Represent buyers in "failure to disclose" cases involving the purchase of residential real estate
• Represent landowners in cases involving boundary line disputes, prescriptive easements, land filling, water rights and water run off, and illegal use of real property
• Represent commercial landlords in litigation arising out of commercial leases
• Represent co-tenant in real estate partition actions
• Represent private mortgage holders in foreclosure actions
• Represent purchasers of new homes in actions against builder/developers
• Represent land owners in quiet title and ejectment actions
• Represent adjoining land owners in injunction and equity actions involving private nuisance, restrictive covenant, and property damage claims