For many of our oldest clients, Bellevue and Eastside real estate is where they built their wealth and where they plan to spend the next forty years. Our real estate attorneys have sat at every kind of closing table, from a corner lot to a multi-phase mixed-use development. The work is detail-heavy. Our job is to make sure detail-heavy doesn't become a problem.
Talk to a real estate attorneyReal estate has been a foundation of Oseran Hahn's practice almost since the firm opened in Bellevue in 1965. Our real estate lawyers close acquisitions, paper commercial and residential leases, structure financings, run 1031 exchanges, and clear title, easement, and boundary questions before they reach a closing table. We stay involved long after the deed records, through tenant disputes, refis, and the next deal a few years down the road. Most of our clients are owners and developers who hold Bellevue and greater Puget Sound property across decades, not quarters, and we also handle individual purchases and sales when the stakes call for a lawyer at the table.
Buy-side and sell-side drafting for single assets and portfolios: LOIs, purchase and sale agreements, diligence coordination, and the closing binder for commercial owners, developers, and individual buyers and sellers.
Construction loans, permanent debt, acquisition financing, AIA owner-architect and owner-contractor agreements, and land-use / entitlement counsel for projects under development.
Declaration drafting, plat work, governing documents, and the early structural decisions that set a condominium community up for the long term.
Office, retail, industrial, ground, and mixed-use lease drafting and negotiation, with the renewals, amendments, and assignments that follow.
Access, utility, view, and reciprocal easements: drafting, recording, modification, and the property-line cleanup that older parcels often need.
Boundary line adjustments, encroachment matters, quiet-title actions, and the survey-and-record work that resolves them cleanly.
Cross-border acquisition structures, FIRPTA withholding, treaty analysis, and the U.S. tax coordination foreign owners and family offices need.
Clients searching for a real estate attorney in Bellevue usually find plenty of options. Long-tenured clients return to us for the same three reasons, and none of them is the deal at hand. It's the deal after it.
You meet the partner who will draft your closing documents. They’re the one who will pick up your call about the lease amendment two years from now.
Most real estate matters touch tax, estate planning, business, and sometimes litigation. We coordinate across the firm so you don’t pay four lawyers to talk to each other.
We’ve seen this market in five cycles. That matters when an LOI lands and the question is how much give the other side actually has.
A working conversation about the asset, the counterparty, the timeline, and the owner’s real goals. The deal follows the strategy, not the other way around.
Letter of intent or term sheet drafted to control the next ninety days, plus the entity structure that will hold the asset after closing.
Title, survey, environmental, lease, and financial review. Structured to surface real risk early and avoid late-stage re-trades.
Purchase agreement, leases, loan documents, and the ancillary schedules. Senior attorney drafting from the first version.
Funds flow, signature pages, recording, and the closing binder. Uneventful when the prior weeks have been thorough.
Working-capital trues, lease assignments, and the years of operational counsel that come after a clean closing.
We negotiate the purchase agreement, run title and lease diligence on the tenants in place, coordinate the financing, and close on schedule, with the operating agreement for the new ownership entity already in place.
We structure the joint venture between landowner and developer, secure the construction loan, and negotiate the GMP contract with the general contractor, with the legal questions that outlast the deal answered before ground breaks.
We re-paper a tired set of leases, clean up an easement issue from the original plat, and stage diligence materials so the buyer’s counsel finds what they need in week one, not week six.
Owner-side litigation that settles in mediation within four months. Tenant stays. Landlord recovers most of the abatement and emerges with a sharper disruption clause for the rest of the portfolio.
Structured the joint venture between landowner and developer, secured the construction loan, and negotiated the GMP contract with the general contractor. Project broke ground on schedule despite a mid-cycle change in jurisdictional review.
Negotiated the portfolio purchase agreement, coordinated parallel diligence across eight properties, and handled assumption financing on three of the loans. Closed within the contract’s ninety-day window.
Sold an aging office property and identified, diligenced, and acquired a stabilized apartment building within the 180-day window. Preserved the family’s deferred basis and reset their hold period for the next generation.
Earlier than most people think. Bring in a real estate lawyer before you sign — when you're negotiating an LOI or purchase and sale agreement, structuring the entity that will hold the property, or reviewing a lease, loan, or easement. Waiting until a title problem or a dispute surfaces narrows your options and raises the cost. For most Bellevue transactions, an hour of counsel up front is the cheapest part of the deal.
It depends on the matter. Straightforward transactional work such as reviewing a purchase and sale agreement, drafting a deed or easement is often a flat fee or a few hours of time. Ongoing development, financing, and litigation are billed hourly, and Washington real estate rates generally run well below the headline numbers you see quoted for big-firm corporate work. We'll give you a clear scope and estimate before you engage us, so the cost is a decision you make up front, not a surprise at the end.
Generally no, on the same deal. We can, with informed consent, represent multiple parties on related transactions where their interests are clearly aligned. We’ll be direct about it in the engagement letter.
Yes, both are regular work for us. On 1031 exchanges we coordinate with the qualified intermediary, structure the replacement-property entity, and align the exchange with your estate plan; forward, reverse, and improvement exchanges are all in scope. For out-of-state and foreign owners, a meaningful part of our practice is cross-border, and we handle the FIRPTA withholding, treaty, and structuring work that comes with holding U.S. real estate from abroad.
Our litigation team sits in the same office, on the same client matters — so if a transaction turns into a dispute, you don't go find new counsel. We handle boundary and easement disputes, quiet-title actions, title and lien issues, commercial landlord-tenant matters, construction defect and lien claims, and HOA and condominium disputes across Bellevue and the greater Seattle area.
Clean closings, careful drafting, and the steady counsel a long-held property deserves from a Bellevue real estate law firm that's been at the table since 1965.
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