Real Estate

Bowditch provides comprehensive legal services across all phases of real estate development and investment, advising property owners, developers, investors, institutions, and public entities on complex projects from initial planning through long-term operation. The firm delivers practical, business-focused counsel that integrates real estate transactions, land use, environmental compliance, and community development.

Our real estate team assists clients with property acquisition, financing, and investment, structuring transactions that incorporate equity investment, conventional debt lending, public and private financing, tax credits, and incentives. We advise on ownership structuring, helping clients establish and manage entities, joint ventures, easements, and other arrangements that support efficient development and long-term asset management.

Our college, university, developer, and municipality clients look to Bowditch to play a key role in campus infrastructure and community development projects, such as large-scale mixed-use, institutional, and public-private developments.

Landlords and tenants turn to Bowditch for drafting and negotiating office, retail, industrial, and specialized leases aligned with their operational and financial objectives.

At Bowditch, we assist clients in navigating project permitting requirements to determine project needs and obtain permits and approvals from federal, state and local authorities for all types of real estate developments in Massachusetts including MEPA, NEPA and wetlands regulations. We advise clients on a range of environmental issues, including compliance and enforcement matters.

Our well-rounded Real Estate Practice enables us to provide end-to-end legal support for real estate assets, helping clients develop, finance, and manage projects efficiently, compliantly, and successfully.