Real estate law

The buyer of a property pays for what they see, but acquires what the deed, the Public Registry of Property, the land-use designation and the contract say, and it is in those sources that the problems discovered months after signing are usually found.

An encumbrance (a charge recorded against the property, such as a mortgage) that nobody reviewed, a poorly documented assignment of rights, a land-use designation that does not allow the project, or a lease that made no provision for one party's exit are all problems that cost more to resolve after signing than before it, and the deed alone does not reveal them, so the work consists of reviewing those sources before payment and drafting a contract that establishes what happens if any of them fails.