Best Real Estate Attorneys in Seattle

2022

Ahlers Cressman & Sleight PLLC

Ahlers, Cressman & Sleight PLLC is an award-winning construction law firm based in Seattle, involved in real estate projects throughout the western United States and Alaska. The firm's typical clients include general contractors and subcontractors, investors, buyers, and sellers. Its attorneys are skilled in all aspects of real estate transactions and litigation, including reviewing and negotiating contracts, mediating in disputes between stakeholders and defending clients in state and federal courts.

Brettin Law Offices PLLC

Brettin Law Offices PLLC is a Seattle law firm that represents individuals, families, and companies locally and nationally in residential and commercial real estate, business, and franchise transactions. Lee Brettin has been an active real estate lawyer since 1992 and focuses on commercial and residential sales, property management, boundary disputes, commercial leasing, real estate financing, and easements. The franchise side of the business includes dealing with state compliance issues, representing franchisees with operational issues, and advising prospective franchisees on franchise disclosure documents. The firm offers a free 10-minute telephone or email case evaluation as well.

Cairncross & Hempelmann

Cairncross & Hempelmann has been a Seattle real estate law firm since 1987. The office's real estate group works with the firm's business, land use, and litigation teams and handles drafting and negotiations, tax structuring, financing issues, mergers and acquisitions, construction and design, development, bankruptcy and 1031 tax-deferred and Tenant-in-Common exchanges. The firm was on U.S. News & World Report's list of Best Law Firms 2015 and was Top Rated by Chambers USA in 2015.

Carney Badley Spellman

Carney Badley Spellman serves the Seattle area with real estate legal services. Practice areas of the firm cover purchases and sales, financing and capital formation, commercial leasing, development and land use, property management, condominiums, and tax planning. The full-service law firm has been recognized by Best Lawyers, Super Lawyers, and U.S. News & World Report's list of Best Law Firms.

Curran Law Firm

The Curran Law Firm has been serving Kent and the surrounding areas with real estate legal services since 1948. Clients hire the team for advise with purchases and sales, financing, title insurance, leases, easements, land use, liens, foreclosures, evictions, boundary disputes, and condemnation. Clients range from homeowners and professional property managers to contractors, developers, and school districts. The firm is a full-service law firm with a range of other practice areas.

Curtis & Casteel Law Group, LLC

Curtis & Casteel Law Group LLC serves the Seattle metro area. Offering transaction-focused real estate services, the firm consults clients on buy or sell agreements and represents them in lawsuits resulting from disputes or breaches of terms. It can help clients draft power of attorney in order to allow a representative to buy or sell real estate on their behalf. The firm also conducts property transfers via quitclaim deed or gift. Easements and joint maintenance agreements, leases, and evictions prosecutions and defense are other focus areas.

DAL Law Firm

DAL Law Firm provides real estate legal services to clients in the Seattle metro area. Consultation and assistance is available for the purchase and sale of real estate and the firm represents clients involved in contractual disputes regarding purchase agreements. It handles quit claim deeds and helps home owners to avoid foreclosure. Preparation assistance is offered for deeds, mortgages, promissory notes, and deeds of trust. DAL Law Firm also conducts title resolution and is experienced with loan and mortgage modification.

Demco Law Firm, P.S.

The Demco Law Firm PS is a Seattle-based practice dedicated to real estate, business law, and civil litigation. It represents a range of clients throughout the metro area, including real estate firms, brokers, buyers, and sellers. The firm also has offices in Portland, Oregon. Its attorneys are experienced practitioners of real estate law, assisting clients in purchasing and selling, as well as dealing with disputes between landlords and tenants, foreclosures, and disagreements involving condominium associations.

Dethlefs Sparwasser Reich Dickerson & Key

Dethlefs Sparwasser Reich Dickerson & Key is an Edmonds real estate legal practice. The firm advises buyers, sellers, lenders, landlords, tenants, developers, and builders in the financing and construction of residential and commercial properties and disputes. Attorneys Jody Reich and Athena Dickerson are on the approved counsel list for the ARAG network, and the firm is a member of the National Association of Professional Women.

Foster Garvey PC

Foster Garvey PC is a Seattle-based law firm practicing in most categories of real estate law. Its legal team can assist clients with commercial and real estate finance needs as well as construction inquiries, disputes, and legal issues. The firm is versed in environmental and natural resource policy as well as issues involving water and water rights. Litigation, land use, and zoning are other experience areas. Foster Garvey PC handles both commercial and residential cases and assists both local and national clients.

Gleam Law

Gleam Law is a Seattle-based full-service cannabis law firm staffed by experienced real estate attorneys, with additional offices in California and Oregon. The firm has an extensive background in representing clients involved with real estate who need attorneys proficient in state and local cannabis laws. Its clients include individuals and businesses. The firm has resolved a wide range of issues for its clients, including community support, issues surrounding water supply, and predatory leases from landlords and property owners.

Gordon Tilden Thomas Cordell LLP

Gordon, Tilden, Thomas, Cordell LLP is a law firm serving the Seattle metro area that practices real estate law. The firm assists with both residential and commercial property transactions and often helps to resolve disputes between landlords and tenants. It is experienced with large condemnation cases and also manages cases involving complex real estate transactions with a variety of challenges. Gordon, Tilden, Thomas, Cordell LLP typically represents clients in lawsuits seeking restitution and execution of agreed upon terms.

Hay & Swann PLLC

Hay & Swann PLLC has been a Tacoma real estate legal practice for almost 20 years. Services of the firm include commercial and residential purchase and sale agreements, buyer/seller disputes, leases and financing, environmental issues, construction defects, mortgage fraud, and foreclosures. Hay & Swann is a BBB Accredited Business with an A+ rating, and attorney Heather L. Swan was a Super Lawyers' Rising Star from 2014 to 2016.

Holmquist + Gardiner, PLLC

Founded in 2008, the Seattle-based law firm of Holmquist & Gardiner PLLC provides experienced representation in matters of real estate law throughout the metro area. The firm focuses on commercial real estate but also applies its skills to the acquisition and sale of residential properties. As well as providing counsel and support in all aspects of real estate transactions, the firm counsels clients on residential and commercial evictions, conversion and creation of condominiums, and property management issues.

Law Office of Catherine C. Clark PLLC

The Law Office of Catherine C. Clark PLLC is a Seattle real estate law firm. Services include commercial and residential real estate law, eminent domain, land use, deeds and liens, easements, and quiet title. Attorney Catherine C. Clark also serves as an expert witness and consultant and deals with personal injury, commercial litigation, mediation, and appeals as well. The firms hold an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell and was listed in Washington Super Lawyers in 2011 and 2012.

Law Office of William Willard, PLLC

Law Office of William Willard PLLC is active within the Seattle metro area and offers real estate related services. This practice handles cases of small and large scale and has experience with litigation involving residential disputes as well as problems involving large commercial projects. It is familiar with cases concerning hazardous waste, CERCLA, and general issues involving large re-development projects. In some cases the firm has helped clients to make formal claims against property developers and insurers.

Law Offices of Peter L. Maier P.C.

The Law Offices of Peter L. Maier represents all stakeholders in matters of real estate litigation. Attorney Peter Maier, a 1981 graduate of the Harvard School of Law, founded his private practice in Seattle to provide the metro area's communities with sophisticated counsel and support in a range of areas. The attorney applies his litigation skills to all disputes related to real estate, including breach of contract, landlord-tenant conflicts, and allegations of fraud and misrepresentation.

Levy | von Beck | Comstock | P.S.

Levy | von Beck | Comstock | P.S. brings 35 years of real estate legal experience to the Seattle area. Clients engage the firm for a range of construction and real estate issues such as construction defects and property loss claims, real estate disputes, credit and collection services, property insurance claims, condominium and homeowner associations, and lien claim services, including all aspects of litigation.

Mary Anne Vance, P.S.

Mary Anne Vance, P.S. is a Seattle real estate law firm. Clients engage the practice for purchase and sale agreements, offers and closing papers, title issues, commercial and residential lease agreements, tenancy-in-common, and partnership agreements. Attorney Mary Anne Vance was a Top Attorney in Washington by Seattle Met Magazine 2015, holds an AV Preeminent rating from Martindale-Hubbell, and was named a Super Lawyer by the readers of Washington Law and Politics Magazine.

McNaul Ebel Nawrot & Helgren PLLC

McNaul, Ebel, Nawrot & Helgren PLLC is a Seattle-based firm of real estate and litigation attorneys that have delivered vigorous representation throughout the metro area since 1995. The firm's clients include debt and equity funds, developers, and portfolio purchasers. Its services include representing clients at every stage of acquisition, supporting the arrangement of financing and lending, counseling landlords and tenants on leasing matters, and representing all parties in the promotion and development of construction projects.

Moultray & McMahon PS

Moultray & McMahon, PS, helps individuals with legal concerns in Seattle and the neighboring areas. Its team represents clients in all types of residential and commercial real estate transactions, including easement claims, title issues, FSBO transactions, commercial leases, and purchase and sale agreements. The legal office also guides home buyers and sellers to avoid potential costly real estate disputes and disagreements. Wes McMahon, one of the firm's founders, previously worked for a national law firm where he focused on complex real estate and business transactions.

Paul Stephen Drayna, PLLC

Serving the Seattle metro area from its Redmond location, the Law Office of Paul Stephen Drayna PLLC represents clients in real estate and business transactions. Attorney Paul Drayna has focused on representing real estate professionals and related businesses since graduating from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1996. He has extensive experience in dealing with the purchase, sale and leasing of both residential and commercial property, as well as easements, covenants, boundary disputes and related matters.

Ryan, Swanson & Cleveland, PLLC

For nearly 125 years, Ryan, Swanson & Cleveland has been providing legal services to Seattle and the rest of the Pacific Northwest. It handles commercial real estate projects, mixed-use developments, student housing, and healthcare facilities. Its attorneys provide counsel for acquisitions and dispositions, community associations, joint ventures, leasing, easements, and construction defects. The firm also offers a wide variety of services in different practice areas, including immigration, business, estate planning, employment rights, financing, licensing, and litigation.

Schelemlein Fick & Franklin

• Property Easements & Restrictions
• Land-Use & Zoning

Schlemlein Fick & Franklin is a multi-practice firm that serves clients in Seattle and the surrounding communities. The firm represents individuals, corporations, and partnerships in dealing with several real estate issues, including lease disputes, title defects, adverse possession claims, and zoning and permits. It also handles concerns regarding construction and business law, as well as represents clients in litigation. This practice was established three decades ago by Dave Schiffrin and Bob Olson. Schiffrin now serves as the firm's senior counsel.

Stokes Lawrence

Stokes Lawrence is a Seattle-based law firm formed in 1981 that represents individuals and businesses across the state and the nation. The firm's real estate practice is staffed by experienced attorneys who can assist clients at every stage of transactions concerning commercial and residential real estate. Their particular areas of focus include acquisitions and dispositions, financing, managing and leasing property, and dealing with the development, design, and construction of a wide range of properties.

Thompson Howle Attorneys at Law, LLP

Thompson Howle Attorneys at Law, LLP has been a Seattle real estate firm for almost 30 years and focuses on elderly clients and those with special needs. Lawyers can review and draft real estate leases, purchase and sale agreements, and contracts and can assist buyers and sellers who choose not to use a real estate agent. The office also focuses on cases involving the elderly and people with disabilities regarding probate, guardianships, trusts, and other estate planning and care issues.