Smith Elliott Smith & Garmey has provided high quality representation in all aspects in real estate and land use law for over 60 years. Whether it is representing a first time home buyer or an investor making a living developing large scale projects, our attorneys are known for providing timely, cost efficient and high quality representation. Our clients are individual property owners, developers, builders, and lenders.
Our representation includes contract preparation, purchase and sales issues, title work and insurance and comprehensive closing services. Our team of attorneys, paralegals and abstractors work closely together to assure that our clients receive the timely turnaround necessary to move forward with their transactions in a prompt and cost effective manner. Our attorneys also represent real estate and land use clients before Planning Boards, Zoning Boards of Appeals, City Councils and the Maine Courts on all types of permitting, variance and regulatory compliance issues.
In addition to doing all types of transactional land use work, our real estate attorneys have extensive experience litigating all types of disputes arising from real estate transactions. Our attorneys represent clients in litigation involving purchase and sale agreement issues, breaches of deed covenants and conditions, title disputes, mechanics liens, boundary claims, easement issues, quite title actions, title insurance coverage problems, foreclosures, evictions and condominium litigation. Our real estate litigation clients also benefit from our broad based litigation experience in construction law, business law and insurance law.
