Real Estate Transactions

Whether as an independent investment or as part of your business, executives, entrepreneurs and professionals purchase, sell and lease real estate. Attorney Sean Byrne has handled scores of real estate transactions, including developing a hotel, condominiums and spec homes. Attorney Byrne has managed the business and legal work on more than $50,000,000 of construction projects, ranging from a nonprofit camp to tenant leasehold improvements.

Attorney Sean Byrne has extensive experience negotiating retail leases, and he can help you protect yourself against the common and unusual issues that arise in the retail context. What happens if the landlord is foreclosed by its lender? Is your lease subject to a non-disturbance agreement? Is the lease recorded? What if zoning is not proper? Whose responsibilities are certain systems or improvements if required during the lease, such as fire suppression or HVAC replacement? Does the landlord know of anticipated construction re-configuring traffic patterns to your detriment? Is there sufficient parking? What advertising and signage are allowed? Attorney Sean Byrne has both the legal training and the business experience to have helped clients address each of these issues and dozens more.

The breadth of real estate engagements Attorney Sean Byrne has handled include: commercial and residential leasing; fractional ownership transactions; property tax assessment challenges; representing developers, unit owners and directors of home owners associations; new build and remodel home construction; and acquisitions and sales of properties. If you need to navigate through these or other real estate transactions, Attorney Sean Byrne’s office in Grosse Pointe, Michigan can provide you with the legal counsel and commons sense approach to protecting his clients without losing the transaction.