Real Estate Litigation

GJB has one of Florida's leading real estate litigation practices. Our attorneys, from offices in Miami and Fort Lauderdale, have represented developers, general contractors, subcontractors, and professionals for over twenty years, including Minto Communities, Inc., one of South Florida's largest developers. Other prominent real estate clients have included KB Home, Bendersen Development, Capital Realty Services, and Affiniti Architects.

We have achieved excellent results for our real estate clients through all stages of litigation, trial, and appeal. These include successful defense at trial of a construction defect suit involving a 322-unit condominium community, and recovery of hundreds of thousands of dollars in professional fees incurred to defend the action. Our attorneys achieved early dismissal of a highly publicized class action lawsuit brought by 2,000 homeowners in Western Broward against more than two dozen developers and contractors seeking significant damages from dynamite blasting utilized to excavate large tracts of land for development. The lawyers have successfully litigated against local governments on concurrency issues arising in planned communities of more than 4,000 homes.

Our real estate litigation attorneys have expertise in a number of areas relating to land development, including the following:

• Contract disputes involving developers, contractors, subcontractors and purchasers of real property
• Construction defect litigation
• Consulting and litigation with local governments involving traffic and school concurrency issues;
• Creation of planned unit developments, including declarations and public offerings used in condominium and non-condominium communities
• Defending Department of Professional Regulation against architects
• Environmental litigation, including clean-up of hazardous wastes, compliance with consent decrees, and defense against government allegations of destruction of environmentally sensitive lands
• Litigation of zoning and development rights in the context of bankruptcy proceedings
• Quiet title actions
• Wrongful death actions
• Zoning litigation involving planned unit developments, developments of regional impact, and smaller communities

If you would like to speak with a member of the firm to discuss representation in real estate litigation, or have any other question, please contact our Miami or Fort Lauderdale office. We will respond promptly.