REAL ESTATE

Acquisitions/Dispositions

Affordable Housing

Banking & Finance

Bankruptcy

Business Entity Formations

Commercial Development

Commercial Leasing

Common Interest Developments

Conservation Easements

Construction

Distressed Assets, Loan Workout and Creditor's Rights

Employment/
Fair Housing Act

Environmental

Land Use

Litigation

Redevelopment

Residential Developments

Tax/1031 Exchange

Water

Business Services

Construction

Employment

Health Care

Litigation

Public Law

Real Estate Practice Group

Real estate. Do it right.

Real estate—the financing, purchase, development, use and sale of property for business and investment purposes—is key to success in today’s business economy.

To do real estate right, you need a legal team with broad and deep experience within this industry—a legal team that knows the law and knows your business.

At McDonough Holland & Allen PC, a quarter of our lawyers made the professional decision to focus their careers on the law and the business of real estate.

With more than 100 attorneys, our firm is the second-largest in Sacramento. Our real estate group is among the largest and most comprehensive in Northern California.

“Much of the skyline of Sacramento and its region is due to the efforts of our real estate clients,” said Patricia D. Elliott, chair of the Real Estate practice group.

“It is very satisfying—personally and professionally—to look out my Capitol Mall window and see the actual brick-and-mortar results of the legal work that we do every day,” she said. “It is satisfying to drive around California, see a project under way or completed, and know that we have helped make a difference.”

Because of our broad and deep focus on real estate, we can be your sole legal source for advice, planning, transactions and dispute resolution in these areas:

• Acquisitions and dispositions
• Affordable housing
• Banking and financial services
• Bankruptcy
• Business entity formations
• Commercial developments
• Commercial leasing
• Common interest developments
• Construction
• Employment and Fair Housing Act
• Environmental
• Homebuyer disclosures
• Land use
• Litigation
• Redevelopment
• Residential developments
• Tax and 1031 Exchanges

The Real Estate practice group is proud to represent the individuals and the public and private entities involved in the successful development of real estate in Northern California. We get great satisfaction from the fact that some of these well-known individuals and entities have been our clients for more than a quarter-century.

Quite often, our lawyers serve as general counsel to public and private entities that do not have an in-house legal department. This kind of long-term relationship is our goal.

We approach our representations with prevention in mind—with the goal of helping our clients anticipate legal difficulties, avoid them as far as possible and mitigate them should they occur. This approach leads to major cost savings on projects of all types and sizes.

Our clients include:

• Commercial developers
• Residential developers
• Mixed-use developers
• Construction companies
• Property owners
• Commercial brokers
• Title insurance companies
• Financial institutions, lenders and pension funds
• Property management companies
• Property owner associations
• Colleges and universities
• Military base re-use entities
• Public agencies
• Landlords and tenants
• Governmental Agencies
• Tax and 1031 Exchanges

When it comes to real estate law and the success of your business—whether advice, planning, transactions or dispute resolution—the lawyers at McDonough Holland & Allen PC will do what it takes to help you “Do it right."