Real Estate

Real Estate Purchases and Sales

The law office of Neil H. Lebowitz represents buyers and sellers of residential and commercial real estate. Services provided include:

  • Negotiation of contracts of sale, purchase options, and rights of first refusal
  • Review of seller's title and any easements, licenses, and restrictive covenants, and zoning and land use restrictions
  • Survey reviews
  • Due diligence review of environmental conditions
  • Finance negotiations
  • Obtaining title insurance
  • Closing on title and related real estate financing

Real Estate Mortgages and Real Estate Finance

Glens Falls attorney Neil H. Lebowitz prepares real estate mortgages and other loan documentation for clients who provide purchase money mortgage financing to real estate buyers or who desire to secure a debtor’s obligation by obtaining a mortgage lien in real property owned by the debtor or a third party.

Real Estate Leases

Lebowitz represents residential and commercial landlords and commercial tenants in the preparation and negotiation of real estate leases. He has successfully assisted clients in the negotiation of long-term ground leases, retail shopping center leases, warehousing rental agreements, office building space leases, and residential rental property leases. The law office also represents clients in disputes that may arise out of the breach of a lease, including eviction proceedings.

Property Agreements

Neil H. Lebowitz assists property owners in the negotiation and preparation of real estate easements and license agreements, restrictive covenants, and with natural resource exploitation contracts for gravel and sand mining and timber cutting. He also represents property owners in disputes arising out of easements, licenses, and trespasses, and can help with the resolution of property line disputes through the negotiation of a boundary line agreement.

Land Use and Zoning Law; Environmental Law

In connection with land use and real estate development activities, Glens Falls lawyer Neil H. Lebowitz provides representation to property owners, developers, and adversely impacted parties in proceedings before planning boards, zoning boards of appeal, municipal legislative bodies, and other governmental agencies for subdivision approvals, site plan reviews, storm water management practices, area and use variances, rezonings, and building permits.

Lebowitz provides representation to clients involved in the registration and removal of liquid underground storage tanks, or who are under an obligation to clean up a petroleum product spill, or who are potentially responsible parties in litigation involving an oil spill. He also provides legal counsel and transaction assistance to property owners involved in asbestos abatement projects, including the negotiation of contracts with asbestos abatement and demolition contractors.

For More Information

Call or write the Glens Falls law office of Neil H. Lebowitz for more information on how he can help with your upstate New York real estate matter.