For more than 70 years WAW has helped Virginia grow through our work with residential and commercial developers, government entities, and lending institutions. We can assist you in acquiring and developing land, getting necessary permits, zoning, financing, and more. Our expertise keeps you up-to-date on all you need to know about environmental matters, community activism, regulatory complexity, and government scrutiny. We help you prosper in highly competitive markets.

Our experience is the key to excellent service. Over the years, WAW has handled hundreds of zoning matters from drafting ordinances to winning variances, countless construction contracts and land transactions, financing transactions from negotiating loans to finding public financing, municipal annexations and acquisitions, property tax issues, real estate litigation, and more.

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Come to WAW for help with real estate and land use matters including:

• Zoning & land use regulation matters
• Rezoning for residential communities, office and retail developments
• Platting, variances, subdivisions, vacations of alleys and rights-of-way, commitment modifications
• Drafting of zoning ordinances and other municipal and county representation
• Drafting of construction contract documents
• Dispute resolution, liens, claims and payment issue
• Condominium development projects and related horizontal property regime documentation
• Joint ventures, partnerships, and LLCs for development projects
• Owners’ association and representation
• Purchase and sale transactions
• Purchase and financing (bridge financing and permanent financing) of warehouse, office, hotel, multi-family and retail facilities
• Commercial negotiation, documentation and closing of Section 1031 exchanges
• Easement and right-of-way acquisitions
• Drafting and negotiation of lease forms, and customized leases for anchor tenants and for landlords in all types of industrial, commercial and retail space
• Financing transactions
• Negotiation and documentation of numerous mortgage financings, corporate lines of credit and term loans
• Construction and development projects and related financings
• Public financing (tax exempt, tax credit projects)
• Municipal transactions
• Sale, leasing, acquisition and redevelopment (by eminent domain or voluntary sales) of real property by government entities
• Title disputes, boundary disputes and quiet title actions
• Real estate litigation
• Purchase and sale litigation
• Adverse possession
• Eminent domain matters