Bayard has a diverse real estate practice, representing clients engaged in all aspects of the real estate industry throughout Delaware and its surrounding states. Bayard’s clients include owners and developers of apartment complexes, office buildings, shopping centers, and residential subdivisions; homebuilders; financial institutions; and landlords and tenants leasing office, condominium, industrial, retail, and residential space.

The firm routinely handles acquisitions and sales of commercial real estate, including all types of purchase financing, including securitized conduit financing and seller financing structures. Bayard attorneys are frequently called upon to creatively structure acquisition entities and agreements among transaction principles.

Bayard routinely represents lenders in financings secured by commercial real estate in Delaware and Pennsylvania, including acquisition, construction, permanent, and leasehold mortgage loans. With the assistance of Bayard’s Meritas affiliates, the firm’s attorneys have represented lenders in financing projects throughout the nation. The firm’s experience, and business-sense, permits Bayard to both protect its lender-clients and work efficiently for the benefit of the lender’s customers.

In addition to commercial real estate, Bayard maintains a large residential practice, which includes acquisition of residential real estate and the refinancing of mortgage debt. Bayard’s residential real estate team helps make the process easy for the client by offering effective solutions to the difficult issues that sometimes arise prior to closing.

The firm also has expertise in land use and real estate litigation representing both commercial and residential developers with matters before various governmental bodies and in all Delaware Courts. Bayard offers experienced counseling to its clients in matters ranging from obtaining subdivision approvals, representation before governmental boards and agencies, appeals of administrative decisions and filing and defending litigation.

Bayard handles all aspects of title insurance business in Delaware and acts as agent for several national title insurance companies.