Lane & Waterman is knowledgeable and experienced in real estate transactions, both routine and sophisticated, including:
- commercial
- residential
- property management
- leasing
- commercial and residential development, including subdividing property, establishing condominium regimes or cooperatives
- city and county planning and zoning and land use designations
- financing arrangements of all types, and
- various forms of tax increment financing and state and local incentives.
Lane & Waterman also routinely assists clients in obtaining property tax relief by appealing tax assessment values or property classifications.
With its broad depth of resources, the firm closes real estate transactions quickly and efficiently. Lane & Waterman routinely handles multi-million-dollar, multi-state transactions. The firm represents many of the largest businesses in the Iowa and Illinois Quad City area, assisting those businesses or their in-house counsel in the management, leasing, financing, purchase and sale of real estate.
The firm’s senior real estate partner, David Dettmann, has been recognized in The Best Lawyers in America in the field of real estate law. David Dettmann is a member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers, which includes only 14 attorneys in Iowa. He is also recognized in Chambers USA and Who’s Who In American Lawyers.
Lane & Waterman attorneys participate in and have taken leadership roles in the Real Estate Section of the Iowa State Bar Association and Iowa State Bar Association Title Standards Committee. Also, a Lane & Waterman attorney has been appointed by the Governor to the five-member Board of the Title Guaranty Division of the Iowa Finance Authority, which controls and directs Iowa Title Guaranty policies and practices. Lane & Waterman attorneys are licensed to issue both Iowa Title Guaranty certificates and Illinois Attorney Title Guaranty title insurance policies.