Real Estate

Witherspoon Kelley has represented a wide variety of buyers, sellers, lenders, and borrowers in every type of industrial, commercial and residential real estate transaction. As the largest real estate legal department in the Inland Northwest, we handle land use and zoning work for both developers and retailers.

The real estate group has a substantial real estate litigation practice representing builders, owners, sellers, purchasers, landlords, tenants, developers, realtors, title insurance companies and their insureds, citizens groups, and financial institutions. In addition, we represent more property owners in condemnation suits than any firm in Eastern Washington.

Real Estate Practice:

• Condemnation
• Condominium formation and conversion
• Easements, boundary disputes and real property covenants
• Environmental conditions and impact statements
• Land use planning
• Lease arrangements
• Platting and subdivision work
• Purchase and sales agreements
• Real estate and asset based financing
• Title insurance
• Water rights and transfers
• Zoning hearings

Representative Real Estate Work:

• Creation of several mixed use condominiums in urban areas
• Leasing for branch offices of large commercial bank and downtown Spokane shopping mall
• Negotiated ownership and transfer of water rights under a 100 year old pre-statute land and water right lease between client and municipality
• Organization, siting, leasing, construction, and operation of a juvenile detention facility by a consortium of nine Eastern Washington counties, 1995-present

Practitioners of Real Estate Law:

• Anson, Edward J.
  
• Barnes, Ned M.
  
• Beaudoin, Ryan M.
  
• Currin, Michael D.
• Davis, Dennis M.
  
• Dullanty, Jr., F.J.
• Ellingsen, Mark A.
• Embrey, M. Gregory
  
• Finney, Daniel E.
  
• Jensen, Ryan K.
  
• Johnson, Patricia L.
  
• Lamp, Robert H.
  
• Loft, Michael L.
  
• McCormick, Jody M.
  
• Riley, III, John M.
  
• Ripley, Shelley N.
  
• Schwartz, Stanley M.
  
• Simpson, Jennifer M.
  
• Smith, Nathan G.
  
• Swinton, Duane M.
  
• Varallo, Christopher G.
  
• Wessman, Joseph H.
  
• Wing, Jason S.