Real Estate & Construction

Real estate and construction matters involve substantial financial commitments, interconnected obligations, and decisions that can directly affect investment value and project timelines. We advise property owners, buyers, sellers, landlords, tenants, lenders, developers, and contractors on complex transactions, financing arrangements, and disputes. Our approach combines careful analysis of legal rights with an understanding of the financial and practical pressures facing each client.

Our real estate work centres on dispute resolution, mortgage-related matters, and transactions requiring strategic advice on legal and financial exposure. We assist with failed closings, deposit disputes, commercial leases, title and ownership issues, secured lending, mortgage enforcement, and priority disputes. When a transaction breaks down or a loan goes into default, we help clients evaluate their options and pursue appropriate relief through negotiation, enforcement proceedings, and litigation.

In construction matters, we advise on project agreements, payment obligations, changes in scope, delays, deficiencies, and completion issues. We represent clients in construction lien proceedings, adjudication, mediation, arbitration, and litigation. Our advice accounts for the interaction between contractual obligations, project relationships, financing, and available remedies, helping clients respond effectively as issues develop.

We have obtained favourable results for purchasers, sellers, and participants in construction disputes. Our experience includes securing the return of the majority of a purchaser’s deposit, together with mutual releases, following an aborted pre-construction home purchase, and obtaining judgment for a seller after a buyer failed to close. In a high-profile construction dispute, we successfully obtained the removal of opposing counsel and defended a motion for security for costs. Across these matters, our focus remains on protecting our clients’ positions and achieving proportionate, practical resolutions.