Commercial and Residential Real Estate

We handle residential and commercial real estate transactions on behalf of buyers and sellers. We will work with you from beginning to end, from your agreement of sale to settlement and closing. We perform due diligence searches as appropriate. We determine whether the real estate title is good and marketable, and free of state and federal liens. We examine and analyze easements and restrictions. We verify the status of municipal approvals. We ensure that corporate buyers and sellers are authorized to do business in Pennsylvania and in good standing.

Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania Land Use Planning and Zoning

We have more than forty years of collective legal experience with local governing bodies and planning commissions, real estate developers, and citizen objectors, in connection with land development plans and zoning applications, including zoning permits, special exceptions, variances and conditional uses.

Our Pennsylvania law firm can assist you with all your zoning, subdivision and land use issues in all municipalities within Lehigh County, Bucks County, Monroe County and Northampton County. We have successfully represented clients before zoning hearing boards, planning commissions, boards of supervisors, city councils and borough councils in municipalities in Lehigh County, Northampton County, Monroe County, and Bucks County. Municipalities in which we have appeared include Easton, Bethlehem, Allentown, Bethlehem Township, Wilson Borough, Lower Nazareth Township, Stroud Township, Smithfield Township, Tinicum Township, and others.

We provide real estate and land use services in matters involving:

  • zoning permits

  • zoning ordinance amendments

  • rezoning

  • land use planning

  • planned residential development (PRD)

  • environmental impacts

  • variances

  • subdivision and site plan applications

  • court appeals of adverse land use decisions.

If you are buying real estate, you must know how zoning and planning laws will affect the property prior to purchase. We can evaluate property before you sign an agreement for sale.

Our significant experience with the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code and local municipal law enables us to provide precise guidance in these matters. We have acted as legal counsel or decisionmakers in hundreds of these matters.