Real Estate, Banking & Finance

   

Our Commercial Property Practice is at the forefront of real estate acquisition, development and finance across the length and breadth of the country and successfully safeguards the interests of all industry role players, whether they be developers, landlords, lenders, property funds or tenants.

The firm provides legal advisory services for all aspects of real estate transactions including:

  • Acting for buyers and sellers in conveyancing transactions, preparation and registration of diverse documents relating to property including leases, licenses, easements, sectional property transactions, joint ventures for real estate development, construction projects, project structuring and financing, sub-division of land, change of user, extension of leasehold titles, amalgamation, rectification of titles, processing of new titles and grants and replacement of lost titles
  • Carrying out property searches
  • Providing due diligence for property-related matters
  • Application and procurement of various forms of consents for property matters and paying land rates and rents on behalf of clients
  • Preparation and registration of power of attorneys, prohibitions, restrictions, caveats and trusts relating to land.
  • Attending to stamping and registration formalities related to the aforesaid transactions and advise clients on land matters generally
  • Application for stamp duty exemptions on behalf of clients as required
  • Our real estate experts work with our specialist dispute resolution lawyers to offer a cost-effective, practical and solutions-based dispute resolution service in respect of real estate disputes.