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Commercial &
Residential Real Estate Law

Experienced Real Estate Counsel for Buyers, Sellers, Developers, Investors, Lenders, Businesses, and Property Owners

Real estate transactions and property disputes often involve significant financial investments and complex legal issues. Whether you are purchasing commercial property, developing a residential community, negotiating a commercial lease, financing an investment, resolving a boundary dispute, or protecting your ownership rights, experienced legal counsel can help minimize risk and protect your investment.

Pratt Law provides comprehensive legal representation in commercial and residential real estate matters throughout Middle Tennessee. We represent developers, investors, lenders, business owners, buyers, sellers, landlords, tenants, builders, homeowners, and property owners in every stage of a real estate matter—from planning and acquisition through financing, development, leasing, closing, and litigation.

Our approach is practical, responsive, and solutions-oriented. We work closely with our clients to identify potential issues early, negotiate favorable outcomes, and protect their long-term interests.

Commercial Real Estate Transactions

Commercial real estate transactions require careful planning, thorough due diligence, and strategic legal guidance. Pratt Law represents businesses, developers, investors, lenders, and commercial property owners in acquiring, selling, financing, leasing, and developing commercial real estate throughout Middle Tennessee.

Our commercial real estate services include:

  • Commercial purchase and sale agreements
  • Letters of intent
  • Due diligence review
  • Title review and title objection resolution
  • Commercial lease negotiation and drafting
  • Office, retail, industrial, and mixed-use developments
  • Multifamily and investment property transactions
  • Commercial closings
  • Easement and access agreements
  • Reciprocal easement agreements
  • Shared maintenance agreements
  • Development agreements
  • Real estate contract negotiations

Whether representing a purchaser, seller, lender, landlord, or investor, Pratt Law works to structure transactions that reduce risk and protect our clients’ investments.

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Residential Real Estate Transactions

Whether purchasing your first home, selling investment property, or transferring family real estate, experienced legal representation helps ensure a smooth transaction.

Pratt Law assists residential buyers, sellers, lenders, and property owners with:

  • Residential purchase and sale agreements
  • Contract review and negotiation
  • Deed preparation
  • Seller-financed transactions
  • Title issues
  • Closing representation
  • Easements
  • Boundary disputes
  • Quiet title actions
  • Partition actions
  • Residential real estate disputes

Our goal is to provide practical legal guidance while protecting your ownership rights throughout the transaction.

Residential Real Estate Transactions

Whether purchasing your first home, selling investment property, or transferring family real estate, experienced legal representation helps ensure a smooth transaction.

Pratt Law assists residential buyers, sellers, lenders, and property owners with:

  • Residential purchase and sale agreements
  • Contract review and negotiation
  • Deed preparation
  • Seller-financed transactions
  • Title issues
  • Closing representation
  • Easements
  • Boundary disputes
  • Quiet title actions
  • Partition actions
  • Residential real estate disputes

Our goal is to provide practical legal guidance while protecting your ownership rights throughout the transaction.

Real Estate Development

Successful developments begin with carefully drafted legal documents and thoughtful
planning. Pratt Law represents developers and builders in the creation of residential
subdivisions, planned unit developments (PUDs), condominium projects, horizontal property
regimes, and mixed-use developments.

Development services include:

  • Planned Unit Developments (PUDs)
  • Condominium creation
  • Horizontal Property Regime documentation
  • Homeowners association formation
  • Condominium association formation
  • Declaration drafting
  • Restrictive covenants
  • Bylaws and governing documents
  • Easement preparation
  • Utility and infrastructure agreements
  • Shared maintenance agreements
  • Common area ownership structures
  • Developer rights
  • Transition documents
  • Governing document amendments and restatements

Because Pratt Law regularly represents homeowners associations and condominium associations, we draft governing documents with long-term enforceability and practical community governance in mind.

Commercial and Residential Leasing

Well-drafted lease agreements reduce uncertainty and protect both landlords and tenants throughout the lease term.

Pratt Law prepares, reviews, and negotiates:

  • Commercial leases
  • Residential leases
  • Lease amendments
  • Lease assignments
  • Subleases
  • Estoppel certificates
  • Personal guaranties
  • Lease termination agreements
  • Default and remedy provisions
  • CAM and operating expense provisions
  • Tenant improvement provisions

We also represent landlords and tenants in lease negotiations, lease disputes, and lease enforcement matters.

Real Estate Financing

Many real estate transactions involve sophisticated financing arrangements that require coordinated legal documentation.

Pratt Law represents lenders and borrowers in preparing and reviewing:

    • Commercial loan documents
    • Promissory notes
    • Deeds of trust
    • Assignments of rents and leases

Security agreements

Commercial guaranties

Construction loan documents

Loan modifications

Seller-financed transactions

Private lending transactions

Our financing experience allows us to efficiently coordinate with lenders, title companies, surveyors, and other professionals to facilitate successful closings.

Easements, Boundary Disputes, Property Rights, and Title Issues

Questions involving property boundaries, easements, ownership rights, and title frequently arise long after a transaction has closed. These disputes can significantly impact the use, value, and marketability of real property.

Pratt Law represents residential and commercial property owners in matters involving:

  • Boundary disputes
  • Survey disputes
  • Boundary line agreements
  • Fence and property line disputes
  • Easement preparation and interpretation
  • Access and ingress/egress disputes
  • Utility easements
  • Encroachment disputes
  • Restrictive covenant interpretation
  • Quiet title actions
  • Title defects and curative work
  • Adverse possession claims
  • Prescriptive easement claims
  • Declaratory judgment actions
  • Property ownership disputes

Whether the issue involves conflicting surveys, an encroaching structure, disputed access rights, or competing claims of ownership, Pratt Law works to protect our clients’ property rights while pursuing practical and cost-effective resolutions.

Partition Actions and Jointly Owned Property Disputes

Joint ownership of real estate can create significant legal challenges when co-owners disagree about the property’s use, management, or sale. If the owners cannot reach an agreement, Tennessee law may permit one or more owners to seek a partition action through the courts.

Pratt Law represents clients in partition actions involving residential, commercial, inherited, and investment properties throughout Middle Tennessee.

Our partition services include:

  • Partition by sale
  • Partition in kind
  • Inherited property disputes
  • Heir property litigation
  • Joint tenancy disputes
  • Tenancy in common disputes
  • Property valuation issues
  • Accounting for rents, taxes, expenses, and improvements
  • Contribution claims between co-owners
  • Negotiated buyouts
  • Court-ordered sale proceedings
  • Distribution of sale proceeds

Real Estate Litigation

Not every real estate matter ends at closing. When disputes arise, Pratt Law represents clients in state courts throughout Middle Tennessee.

Our real estate litigation practice includes:

  • Breach of purchase and sale agreements
  • Specific performance actions
  • Commercial lease disputes
  • Boundary line litigation
  • Survey disputes
  • Easement litigation
  • Quiet title actions
  • Partition actions
  • Property ownership disputes
  • Restrictive covenant disputes
  • Construction-related disputes
  • Title litigation
  • Foreclosure-related litigation
  • Declaratory judgment actions

We develop litigation strategies designed to protect our clients’ legal rights while pursuing efficient and cost-effective resolutions whenever possible.

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Why Clients Choose Pratt Law

Real estate law often intersects with business law, commercial lending, community association law, estate planning, and probate. Pratt Law offers comprehensive legal representation that considers every aspect of a transaction or dispute rather than focusing on a single document or isolated issue.

We are committed to responsive communication, practical legal advice, and carefully crafted legal solutions that protect our clients’ investments while helping them achieve their business and personal objectives.

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Serving Middle Tennessee

Pratt Law represents buyers, sellers, developers, investors, lenders, landlords, tenants, businesses, builders, homeowners, and property owners throughout Middle Tennessee, including Nashville, Franklin, Brentwood, Murfreesboro, Hendersonville, Clarksville, Lebanon, Gallatin, Columbia, and the surrounding communities.

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Whether you are purchasing commercial property, selling residential real estate, developing a planned community, negotiating a commercial lease, financing a real estate investment, resolving a boundary dispute, pursuing a partition action, or protecting your property rights, Pratt Law provides experienced legal representation tailored to your objectives.

Schedule a consultation regarding your commercial or residential real estate matter.

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