30 Best Houston Real Estate Lawyers

Founded in 1945, the Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer, & Feld LLP is an international law firm with an office in Houston. The firm advises clients on real estate finance, transactions, leasing, and foreclosures. With experience assisting investment funds and individual investors, along with commercial and industrial developers, the firm counsels clients in matters of acquisitions, dispositions, and the development of office, medical, industrial, and technology facilities. Its integrated real estate team also addresses any tax, construction, environmental, and regulatory considerations.

Barsalou & Associates PLLC is a law firm that represents homeowners' associations and condominiums in Houston and the surrounding region. It handles general corporate matters, amendments to HOA documents, deed restriction enforcement, maintenance fee collection, and Texas Property Code compliance. The firm also assists clients with foreclosures, liens, and evictions. It provides representation for HOAs in court, drafts demand letters, and works with architectural committees. Its other area of practice is corporate securities.

Crain Caton & James is a law firm in Houston and The Woodlands that has been serving clients for over a century. The firm helps address real estate concerns like acquisition and disposition, development and financing, and operation of residential, commercial, and industrial properties. The firm also counsels on estate planning and marital property, probate, guardianship, and trust matters. The practice collaborates with other lawyers in related areas, such as bankruptcy, environmental law, and tax.

De Lange, Hudspeth, McConnel, & Tibbets LLP is a business litigation and real estate law firm in Houston. It was founded in 1916 and represents investors, developers, landlords, and tenants in real estate transactions. The legal team counsels clients on purchase and sales, financing, refinancing, and commercial leasing. The attorneys have experience representing plaintiffs and defendants in real estate litigation, including boundary disputes, earnest money contracts, leases, title insurance, and condemnation or adverse possession cases.

Deans & Lyons is a law firm in Houston and Dallas that handles judicial and non-judicial real estate matters, including commercial and residential foreclosure litigation. Some of the firm's areas of experience are lender liability, fraudulent real estate sales, municipal ordinance actions, and deed restriction enforcement. The firm also handles landlord-tenant disputes and evictions, condominium or homeowners association disputes, and non-profit association corporate governance. Clients can call the firm's toll-free number to discuss specific cases.

Dow, Golub, Remels, & Gilbreath PLLC is a Houston real estate law firm that represents buyers and sellers in a broad range of commercial and residential matters including the purchase and sale of developed and undeveloped real property. Its lawyers prepare letters of intent and act as liaisons with leasing brokers as well as assisting with drafting and negotiating leases and related documents. Additionally, Dow, Golub, Remels, & Gilbreath defends clients whose real property was seized through governmental eminent domain proceedings.

Frazier & Frazier in Houston assists businesses and people with sales and purchases of commercial and residential real estate. The firm prepares and reviews financing documents as well as deeds and contracts. Attorneys help with trust deeds, purchase and sale agreements, earnest money, notes, reviewing land title surveys and title commitments, and loan and lease agreements. They prefer negotiation in contractor disputes. The law firm also helps small business owners by reviewing lease and loan agreements and financing documents.

Kelley, Drye, & Warren LLP is a Houston real estate law firm that represents insurance companies, owners, and lenders in construction and permanent mortgage loan transactions, sale-leasebacks, and other forms of real estate financing. Its lawyers advise financial institutions and other investors in workouts and loan restructurings as well as in litigation involving distressed real estate. Additionally, Kelley, Drye, & Warren assists landlords and tenants in connection with commercial leasing, including office, retail and industrial space.

The Law Office of Philip W. Boyko is a law practice in Houston that assists individuals and companies with the sale or purchase of residential and commercial property. Focus areas include deeds, title issues, real estate notes, lien properties, earnest money contract, and construction disputes. The firm also deals with judicial and non-judicial foreclosures, estate planning and probate, corporate and commercial transactions, and general civil trial and business litigation.

The Law Offices of Steven Tuan Pham is a law practice in Houston that handles real estate transactions, litigation, and landlord-tenant issues. The firm provides services like drafting contracts and commercial lease agreements, advising on financing strategies to minimize tax liabilities in capital gain, and counseling on the right of redemption after property foreclosure. The firm also assists in the filing of eviction suits and represents clients in cases like wrongful eviction. Clients can request a free phone evaluation.

Lone Star Lawyers is a law firm in Houston and San Antonio that deals with commercial real estate law, collections law, and probate law. Areas of practice include purchase and sales agreements, real estate deeds, construction disputes, and litigation. The firm's website has a sales page for real estate property sellers and buyers.

Martin M. Hokanson is a real estate litigation attorney in Katy, who also handles probate law. The lawyer obtained his JD from the University of Houston, and he has been in practice for more than 35 years. Focus areas include construction contracts, breach of contract, foreclosure, business and commercial litigation, and business formation. The office accepts inquires by phone or via the website's live chat feature.

RB Bormaster & Associates is a law practice in Houston that practices in real estate law, criminal defense, civil trial, and catastrophic injury. The firm has attorneys and staff who are experienced in dealing with legal issues tied to land ownership. Areas of focus include clouds on title, mortgage fraud, boundary line disputes, ingress and egress rights, general insurance, and warranty issues. The firm also handles hurricane and storm damage claims. The firm offers a free consultation.

Strong Pipkin provides legal representation to homeowners, landlords, tenants, and developers in real property litigation and dispute matters in the Houston area. The firm assists with real estate contracts, and it helps banks enforce foreclosures, evictions, and other claims secured by real property. In practice since 1935, the law firm serves a wide range of clients, from small businesses to national corporations. Additional areas of practice include construction litigation, insurance coverage litigation, and premises liability.

Sutherland, Attorney & Counselor PLLC practices real estate law for large businesses and start-ups in Houston. Founded in 2014, the firm represents clients in every step of the commercial real estate process. Its services include drafting and reviewing contracts and other documents and negotiating the terms of property lease and purchase. Other practice areas are business estate planning, entrepreneurial law, hospitality law, business law, and litigation for real estate matters.

The Law Offices of Kennedy & Jackson in Houston is an estate planning law firm that assists clients with real estate transactions. Utilizing real estate trusts, the firm designs real estate transactions that satisfy clients' long-term interests, protect their assets, and provide orderly transfers of real property upon their deaths or when some other specified event occurs. The firm also handles business succession and transactions, probate and estate administration, and guardianship issues.

Wilson, Cribbs, & Goren in Houston focuses on commercial real estate law. The multi-attorney firm deals with matters involving retail, multi-family, industrial warehouse, land, and self-storage facilities. It also works with nonprofit organizations seeking housing solutions for seniors, and low to moderate-income families. Firm chairman Reid C. Wilson has more than 30 years of legal experience and is a fellow of the American College of Real Estate Attorneys. He holds an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell.