Stuart M Saft

Practice Areas

Stuart M. Saft, practice group leader of Holland & Knight's New York Real Estate Practice Group, co-chair of the firm's global Condominium Development and Conversion Team, and former co-chair of the firm's Hospitality, Resort and Timeshare Group, has extensive experience in the development, financing, leasing, conversion-to-condominium and cooperative ownership, exchange, syndication, sale-leaseback, timeshare, restructuring, acquisition and sale of residential, commercial and hospitality property throughout the United States.

Mr. Saft also represents borrowers and lending institutions in mortgage lending and workouts.

Mr. Saft is the former chair of the board of directors of the National Cooperative Bank and the New York City Workforce Investment Board. Mr. Saft has written 44 books on Commercial Real Estate and more than 100 articles on real estate, economics and finance. Mr. Saft also is the author of the three-volume "Commercial Real Estate Workouts," which is in its third edition and published by Thomson Reuters Westlaw, and chaired four webinars on the impact of Russian sanctions on New York City Real Estate and lessons learned from the Surfside collapse.

In addition, Mr. Saft has extensive experience with matters involving the New York State Attorney General, foreign investors, leasehold condominiums and planned unit developments.

Professional Memberships

American College of Real Estate Lawyers, 2002-Present

National Consumer Cooperative Bank, Board Member, Board Chairman, Board Vice Chairman, Audit Committee Chairman, 2002-2012

NCB, FSB, Board Member, Board Vice Chairman, Audit Committee Chairman, Loan Committee Chairman, 2002-2012

Council of New York Cooperatives and Condominiums, Board Member, 1981-Present, Chairman, 1987-Present

The Real Estate Finance Journal, Contributing Editor, 1988-2010

New York City Workforce Investment Board, Board Chairman, 1998-2010, Chairman Emeritus, 2010-Present

Member, Thomson Reuters Real Estate Advisory Board, 2018-Present

New York State Attorney General's Task Force on the Martin Act, 1995-1999, 2002-2007

Lawyers Alliance, Board Member, 2007-2012

United States Army Reserve, Captain (Ret.)