Cuddy & McCarthy provides a full range of legal real estate services with a result-oriented approach.  Our experienced real estate attorneys are dedicated to designing and implementing the strategy and choosing the entity best suited to meet our clients’ objectives.  Our clients include individuals, businesses, investors, landlords and tenants whose properties include residences, undeveloped land, ranches, subdivisions, and office, retail, industrial, multi-family and mixed-use sites.  Our attorneys regularly represent owners through each stage of their real estate transactions: acquisition; zoning and land use; financing; site development; construction; leasing; refinancing and sale.

We understand the time sensitive nature of real estate transactions and are equipped to accommodate our clients’ needs.  We regularly help our clients with:

• Simple and complex transactions
• Purchases and sales of residential, commercial and undeveloped properties
• Commercial projects, whether existing or to be developed, including commercial leasing
• Ranch properties
• Title, survey, and title insurance review for purchasers, owners and lenders
• Condominium formations and conversions
• Protective covenant preparation and homeowners’ associations
• Loan document preparation, review and negotiation in simple or sophisticated lending arrangements
• Mortgage loan opinions and banking issues
• Zoning and land use
• Landlord-tenant matters
• Obtaining entitlements
• Master planned communities
• Subdivisions
• Conservation easements
• Easements and rights of way
• Special use permits
• Related taxation issues (including 1031 exchanges)
• Development incentives
• Private and public infrastructure
• Architectural design and construction agreements
• Property management
• Entity choice and formation
• Road maintenance and well-sharing agreements
• Co-owner agreements
• Covenant enforcement
• Water rights

Recent and current representations include the following commercial projects:  acquisition, zoning and construction of the national offices of Santa Fe Film and Media Studios and Outside Magazine; La Pradera and Suerte del Sur subdivisions; numerous hotels; The Home Depot (Santa Fe); Plaza Santa Fe, Plaza Farmington, Plaza @ San Mateo (Albuquerque) and  Enchanted Hills Shopping Center (Rio Rancho) (all with “national” anchor tenants); shopping centers in other states; the Verde Realty development and subdivisions at the Santa Teresa border crossing; Summit office building complex (Rio Rancho); and numerous acquisition, development and bond projects for public schools.

We welcome the opportunity to discuss potential representation.