Real Estate

 
Debra Valenti-Epstein and John Hagarty have extensive experience in a wide variety of real estate transactions and related litigation. Their practice covers the transaction from the negotiation stage, drafting an Agreement of
Sale, assisting with inclusion of contingencies to protect the client, review of mortgage and financing documents, interpretation of title reports, and representation at settlement.

The attorneys also provide legal services to assist clients in private transactions between family members, business partners, close friends, and non-traditional couples, tailoring the sale and purchase to meet their individual needs.

The attorneys are also experienced in litigation arising from 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.

Recent cases include:

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, zoning appeal, and property damage claims