Real estate attorney in New Hampshire and Maine
The Law Office of Christopher E. Ratté provides complete legal services for real estate owners, investors and developers.
Our real estate and land use services include:
- Negotiate and draft commercial real estate sales agreements, closing documents, leases and construction agreements;
- Oversee due diligence, financing, environmental and property inspections;
- Obtain zoning, site plan and other local and state approvals.
- Litigate land use, zoning, property tax, boundary disputes and other real estate related matters at the municipal and state level.
In addition to our legal services, our affiliated title company, Beacon Title & Escrow Services, LLC, provides full service real estate title and closing services to banks and other mortgage lenders throughout New Hampshire and Maine.
Our title and closing services include:
- Examine real estate titles;
- Prepare closing and loan documents;
- Conduct closings of commercial and residential real estate transactions for mortgage lenders;
- Prepare title insurance policies for First American and Chicago Title Insurance Companies.
The Law Office of Christopher E. Ratté provides numerous other legal and consulting services such as civil litigation and estate planning. While these services are often integrally related to owning a small business or commercial real estate, these services are available to individual clients as well.
Some of these additional services include:
Civil Litigation:
- Litigate civil matters in state and federal court;
- Draft complaints and pretrial motions;
- Conduct discovery;
- Negotiate settlement and alternative dispute resolution;
- Litigate bench and jury trials;
- Prepare appeals.
Estate Planning:
- Prepare business succession, personal estate, and long-term care plans;
- Draft wills, trusts, living wills, powers of attorney and other estate planning documents;
- Administer estates in Probate Court.
