Our Florida real estate practice serves the clients our international work naturally brings us: foreign buyers and investors acquiring Florida property, and the businesses that transact around them. The focus is deliberately narrow — transactional protection and dispute response, integrated with our title and construction practices.
What We Handle
- Purchase and sale — contract review and negotiation, due-diligence coordination, and closings, including FIRPTA withholding mechanics that surprise foreign sellers
- Entity structuring for ownership — LLCs and holding structures for liability, privacy, and cross-border tax coordination (with tax specialists engaged where needed)
- Title issues — working alongside our title company representation practice on defects, claims, and escrow disputes
- Real-estate disputes — deposit fights, failed closings, broker-commission disputes, and partition actions, litigated through our business litigation team
- Construction interfaces — see our Florida construction practice for lien and defect matters
For Foreign Buyers Specifically
Florida also restricts certain foreign ownership of real property near military installations and, for some nationalities, more broadly under Chapter 692 — restrictions that carry real penalties and are frequently missed by out-of-state advisers. Screening the transaction against those rules is part of every foreign-buyer engagement we take.
Buying, selling, or fighting over Florida property? Contact our office before you sign or respond.
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