Pugh Hagan Prahm’s real estate team help clients navigate the complexities that typically are involved in our clients’ transactions.
For over 30 years, our lawyers have been helping all types of organizations, including regional and national developers and builders, lenders, hotels, medical offices, places of worship, and non-profit organizations. Location, talent, experience, and strategic thinking are the key components to reaching a successful conclusion for your real estate projects.
Pugh Hagan Prahm is consistently recognized for its real estate practice in U.S. News & World Report’s Best Law Firms in Iowa for the Iowa City/Cedar Rapids market.
Pugh Hagan Prahm’s real estate attorneys handle the due diligence, document preparation and negotiation, and related legal services necessary to help our clients consummate sales, purchases, and leases. Our real estate attorneys also prepare documents related to the development of all types of real estate projects, with broad experience in mixed-use projects and the complexities they entail. These agreements include contracts between developers, contracts between our clients and municipalities, including complex public/private undertakings and development agreements, covenants establishing homeowner and condominium associations, and deeds and other instruments necessary to subdivide land.
In addition to helping negotiate the terms of purchase and sale contracts, our real estate attorneys have substantial experience in negotiating and structuring commercial finance transactions throughout the United States, and coordinate the actions of the many parties involved in closing a transaction, including the lender, borrower, consultants, title companies, surveyors, and others.
Our attorneys are working in the outlying growth areas of Johnson and Linn Counties, including Swisher, Shueyville, Hills, Fairfax, Mt. Vernon, Robins, Hiawatha, Washington, Riverside and Kalona, offering an expanding array of client-oriented capabilities, and ensuring that our firm is positioned to provide legal services in all of the Iowa City/Cedar Rapids metropolitan area markets – using the appropriate talent for a successful project.
We are always looking toward the future, and are closely watching areas of potential development while positioning ourselves to assist our clients in maximizing their investments. Since our inception, the firm has been recognized every year as a First-Tier Land Use & Zoning Law Firm by U.S. News & World Report’s Best Law Firms in Iowa for the Iowa City/Cedar Rapids market.
The firm’s land use & zoning practice group handles the processes of preparing, submitting, articulating, and defending our client’s applications before the appropriate local government staff, planning commissions, boards of adjustment, local legislative bodies, and concerned community members. Our team offers a superior understanding of the legislative approval process and the personalities that shape public policy.
Our zoning cases vary in complexity – from drive-through restaurants to master planned communities and large scale mixed use commercial projects. Almost all cases involve understanding various community concerns and frequently deal with environmental sustainability and historic preservation issues.
Our attorneys are recognized state-wide and in leading industry publications as some of the best in the industry.
Many of our attorneys have spent their entire professional careers in the Eastern Iowa community and are deeply involved in the leadership of business and civic organizations that make up the fabric of our region. Our established and proven relationships with city, town, and county authorities, coupled with our intimate knowledge of the region, help our clients achieve their visions.
The land use & zoning team focuses on facilitating meetings and presentations with neighborhood groups, staff representatives, and decision-makers. For those applications with substantial citizen opposition, our firm works to enhance communication and education about the project and build community consensus based upon an intimate understanding of the community and its leaders.
If you’re ready to work with experienced and trusted attorneys who will make you a priority, please give us a call.
425 E. Oakdale Blvd,
Suite 201
Coralville, IA 52241