Real Estate & Affordable Housing
At RAINES, we move at the pace of the deal, combining legal precision with business fluency to support real estate clients across every stage of the asset lifecycle. Our attorneys are trusted by institutional investors, REITs, developers, lenders, and operators to deliver practical, deal-driven counsel on transactions ranging from high-value acquisitions to distressed asset strategies.
We work across sectors, office, industrial, retail, multifamily, hospitality, and mixed-use, and advise on purchases, sales, leasing, development, entity structuring, and note sales. With a reputation for responsiveness and results, our team partners closely with colleagues across tax, corporate, finance, and litigation to help clients unlock opportunity and navigate risk in today’s evolving market.
Accolades
- Super Lawyers (2025, 2024)
- Super Lawyers Los Angeles Rising Star (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016)
- US News Metropolitan Tier 3 Ranking: Real Estate, Labor, and Entertainment Law (2022)
- Leading Lawyers Network – Closely & Privately Held Business Law; Real Estate Law: Associations & Condominiums; Real Estate Law: Commercial; Real Estate Law: Finance (2017)
- California Super Lawyers, Real Estate (2013-2017)
- Super Lawyers Rising Star (2010 & 2011)
- Top Commercial Real Estate Lawyer, Midwest Real Estate News (2005)
- Illinois Super Lawyers (2005-2016)
- Real Estate Law: Commercial; Real Estate Law: Finance (2004-2017)
- Leading Lawyer: Public Finance, Commercial Real Estate, Real Estate Finance and Business Tax (2001-2017)
- Martindale-Subble AV Rated (1992-2015)
- Florence Wilson Merit Scholarship
- American Jurisprudence Award for the Study of Property