Real Estate

Ellis & Winters offers comprehensive services in commercial and residential real estate development. Our attorneys represent local, national, and regional institutions in transactions throughout North Carolina and region. The firm's real estate development practice includes land use planning, entity formation, acquisition, leasing, and financing. Our lawyers have significant experience with many of the "smart growth" tools currently advocated by state and municipal governments and have had the opportunity to assist our clients in dealing with these land use and development challenges. We have represented buyers and sellers of real estate ranging from owners of farm tracts for raw land development to shopping center and office park developers.

The scope of our practice encompasses all types of projects, including residential, retail, office, warehouse, hotel, mixed-use, and manufacturing developments. Experience in representation of lenders and borrowers in sophisticated real estate financing projects has provided us with the ability to assist our clients in understanding all sides of a financial transaction. 

Our transactional attorneys represent banks and other financial institutions in a wide variety of secured and unsecured commercial and corporate lending transactions. Our loan experience includes a wide variety of transactions, including real estate construction loans, revolving credit facilities, term loans, and complex syndicated facilities.