Real Estate Lawyers in Bellevue, WA

The client journey

From the corner lot to the multi-phase build.

Real estate moves through four chapters. Choose where you are.

▍ 01 / Acquiring

From letter of intent to recorded deed.

Site control is everything. We negotiate purchase agreements, structure the entity that will take title, and manage diligence — title, survey, environmental, zoning, leases — so the surprises happen before earnest money goes hard. Whether you’re buying a single building or assembling a parcel, we work to close cleanly and keep optionality where you want it.

→Purchase & sale agreements (single-asset and portfolio)
→Title, survey, and environmental due diligence
→Entity structuring and acquisition financing
→Tax-deferred exchanges (1031 / reverse / improvement)
→Letters of intent, option agreements, and rights of first refusal

▍ 02 / Entitling & Developing

Zoning, permits, and the team that builds it.

Once the dirt is yours, the project becomes a chain of agreements: architects, engineers, general contractors, lenders, and the jurisdiction itself. We draft and negotiate the construction documents, work through entitlements and SEPA review, and stand between you and the disputes that can stall a schedule.

→Land-use, zoning, and entitlement counsel
→AIA and custom owner-architect / owner-contractor agreements
→Construction lending & equity-side joint ventures
→Easements, CC&Rs, condominium declarations
→Subcontractor disputes, mechanic’s liens, and schedule claims

▍ 03 / Operating & Leasing

The lease, the tenant, and everything after.

A building’s value is the strength of its leases. We draft and negotiate commercial leases on both sides of the table, advise property owners on tenant relations and defaults, and handle the operational fixes — easements, encroachments, property-management agreements — that come up in every long-held asset.

→Office, retail, industrial, and ground leases
→Lease workouts, defaults, and unlawful detainer
→Property-management and brokerage agreements
→Easements, boundary disputes, and quiet-title actions
→Insurance coverage and risk-allocation review

▍ 04 / Disposing & Recapitalizing

Sales, refinances, and the next chapter.

When the asset has done its work — or the market is ready — we structure the exit. Sales to strategic and institutional buyers, refinancings, contributions into a larger portfolio, and 1031 exchanges into the next investment. The goal is the same: the value you built, in the form you want, on a schedule that holds.

→Sell-side counsel (single-asset and portfolio)
→Refinancings & permanent debt placements
→1031 exchanges and qualified-intermediary work
→Contributions to UPREITs and operating-partnership transactions
→Owner-side disputes with buyers, lenders, and partners

Counsel for the people moving dirt.

From the corner lot to the multi-phase build.

From letter of intent to recorded deed.

Zoning, permits, and the team that builds it.

The lease, the tenant, and everything after.

Sales, refinances, and the next chapter.

The attorneys you’ll actually work with.

William Hsu

Thomas Hansen

Thomas Lofton

Connor Rankin

James Clark

Paul Spencer

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Recent work.

Eastside infill project closes after a four-year entitlement.

A regional investor adds eight assets in a single transaction.

A family rolls a long-held office building into a multifamily asset.

Re-papered a 220,000-square-foot retail portfolio.

Working on a deal or a development? Let’s talk.