Real estate disputes, commercial and residential.

Real estate disputes are typically procedural, document-driven, and time-sensitive. A purchase and sale contract is in dispute and the closing date is approaching. A boundary line is unclear and a buyer is threatening to walk. A landlord and tenant cannot agree on the meaning of a CAM clause and the lease year is ending. An HOA is in dispute with a homeowner over an architectural decision that's now blocking a sale.

Legion mediates real estate disputes with the procedural attention they require. The contract, the title commitment, the survey, the lease, the covenants, and the closing documents are all on the table. We read them carefully and we work with both parties' counsel to identify which specific provisions are operative.

The real estate matters we mediate

Purchase and sale contract disputes, including disputes over earnest money, contingency satisfaction, due diligence findings, financing failures, title objections, and the mechanics of closing extensions and assignments.

Boundary, easement, and title matters, including disputed surveys, prescriptive easement claims, encroachment disputes, and the title insurance coverage questions that often parallel them.

Commercial landlord-tenant disputes, particularly over CAM reconciliations, exclusive use clauses, percentage rent, holdover provisions, and lease-end matters (renewal, surrender, restoration). These mediations frequently produce a modified lease rather than a termination.

HOA and condo association disputes, including architectural review disputes, assessment disputes, and rule enforcement matters that are often emotionally charged out of proportion to the dollar amounts involved.

Construction-adjacent real estate matters, where the dispute crosses between the construction and real estate practice areas (for example, a developer-owner-contractor matter that also involves title and lien issues).

Broker and agent disputes, including commission disputes, dual-agency matters, and the range of disclosure-failure claims that arise after a transaction closes.

Time-sensitive matters

Real estate disputes often have a closing date or a lease deadline driving the urgency. Legion accommodates expedited engagements when the deadline is real. We've run intake, pre-mediation, and a successful joint session in under two weeks for matters where a closing was at stake. The investigative work compresses, but it doesn't disappear: we still read the documents before we open the joint session.

Coordinating with title insurers and lenders

Many real estate disputes involve a title insurer or a lender as a stakeholder, even if they aren't formally a party to the mediation. We coordinate with counsel to ensure that the resolution we reach is one the relevant insurer or lender can underwrite, particularly in matters that need to close immediately after settlement.

Coverage

Real estate mediation at Legion is available in Atlanta, throughout Georgia, and across the Southeast (FL, AL, SC, TN). For matters where the property is in one jurisdiction and the parties are in another, we accommodate hybrid sessions and travel.