Real Estate

Mele & Associates, LLC handles all aspects of residential and commercial real estate. With a combined 40 years of experience in residential and commercial real estate and business, the attorneys at Mele & Associates, LLC can provide you with effective, skillful representation in title, transactional, and litigation matters.

Our attorneys conduct all residential and commercial real estate transactions with meticulous, methodical detail. With our extensive preparation and knowledge supporting your real estate transactions, you can feel confident that your investment is secure. Some of the real estate issues we can handle for you include:

• Title Searches
• Clearing Title
• Property Liens
• Construction Issues
• Build-Outs
• Easement Restrictions
• Financing
• Mortgages

• Leasing Contracts
• Landlord-Tenant Disputes
• Land Use
• Zoning
• Sales Contract Drafting
• Contract Review
• Contract Negotiations
• Eminent Domain

More than just a place to live or conduct business, your real property is a significant asset. Disputes over real property can profoundly impact your life or affect your business by interrupting your operations and threatening the security of your business location. Our attorneys are commanding litigators and use our imposing courtroom presence and focused real property knowledge to protect your investment from such contentious disputes as title liens, easement conflicts, landlord-tenant disagreements, incorrect zoning decisions, and eminent domain.

Real estate contracts often include a clause that requires disputes to enter arbitration. Absent an arbitration clause, mediation can nonetheless effectively preserve relationships in a commercial setting. When mediating your dispute is most advantageous to you or required by contract, we direct negotiations toward equitable solutions.

Mele & Associates, LLC is located in Clark, New Jersey and New York, and represents clients throughout New Jersey, focusing primarily in Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris, Somerset, and Union Counties, as well as New York, Richmond, Orange, and Rockland Counties in New York State. Our attorneys are licensed to practice law in New Jersey and New York, and are familiar with the laws in each State.