Condominiums, Cooperatives, and Homeowners' Associations

For more than 30 years, Davis Malm has served the unique needs of the condominium market in eastern Massachusetts. We have built a reputation for handling the diverse ways that condominiums are created and used, including residential, commercial, industrial, and mixed-use properties. We represent developers, lenders, condominium associations, and individual unit owners in all aspects of condominium development, operation, and management, including preparation, interpretation, and amendment of condominium documents; the critical transition from developer to unit owner control; enforcement of condominium policies and bylaws; collection of condominium common expenses; negotiation of agreements with lenders, vendors, and suppliers; clarification of obligations of condominium boards; and environmental matters, employment issues, and other problems that confront condominium associations.

Our condominium attorneys are acknowledged experts in the intricacies of condominium law. Among our attorneys are active bar association leaders; attorneys who have drafted important provisions of the Commonwealth's condominium statute, Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 183A; authors of major condominium law treatises, including Massachusetts Condominium Law, Crocker's Notes on Common Forms, and Massachusetts Condominium Liens; attorneys who have litigated leading condominium cases in the Commonwealth; and speakers at numerous continuing legal education seminars. We have been actively involved in major cases in which condominium law precedent has been established. Recently, on behalf of the Real Estate Bar Association of Massachusetts and the Abstract Club, we participated in winning a landmark case in the U.S. Court of Appeals. In this case, the court upheld the use of phasing techniques by condominium developers. When it comes to condominiums, we know the lay of the land.

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