Real Estate
Section Chair: Lynn David Bird
Lawyers Serving Boulder, Denver, Fort Collins & all of Northern Colorado
Since Caplan and Earnest's inception in 1969, real estate and land-use issues have been a cornerstone of the firm's practice. Since that time, Caplan and Earnest LLC has helped many clients negotiate land-use issues and all types of real estate transactions. Our real estate group assists with projects from residential sales and purchases to major developments. Clients include Fortune 500 companies, state and local companies, foundations, real estate companies, Realtor® associations, landowners, developers, brokers, title companies, banks and financial institutions, as well as individuals. Caplan and Earnest's expertise includes:
- Administrative hearings
- Broker defense litigation
- Choice of ownership and entity formation
- Commercial leasing and management
- Commercial real estate purchases and sales
- Common community interest associations
- Conservation easements
- Construction financing
- Construction law and construction litigation
- Creation of commercial condominium units, declarations and associations
- Declarations of covenants, conditions and restrictions
- Easements, licenses and rights-of-way
- Eminent domain
- Environmental matters affecting real estate
- General real estate litigation
- Homeowners' associations
- Landlord issues
- Lease/purchase agreements
- Mechanic's lien issues
- Mediation
- Negotiation and preparation of construction documents
- Planning, zoning and annexation
- Property management
- Real estate brokerage law
- Real estate development
- Real estate financing and loan documentation
- Real estate trade associations
- Residential real estate purchases and sales
- Subdivisions
Caplan and Earnest assists clients in a comprehensive range of transactional, governmental and permitting issues, land-use and urban development approvals as well as mediations, arbitrations, administrative hearings, and litigation related to real property. Representation also includes planned developments, historic preservation projects, development agreements and vested rights agreements, annexation agreements, initiative and referendum elections, urban renewal projects, public financing and subsidy arrangements, and public/private partnerships and transactions.
Our team represents landowners and developers when they appear before planning commissions and municipal boards on applications for annexation, rezoning, planned developments, and subdivision approvals. In addition, the firm has extensive experience preparing and enforcing covenants for property owners' associations, commercial condominiums, and construction of all types of projects.