Are you searching for experienced California real estate attorneys with the proven experience to resolve your real estate dispute?  The Watkins Firm is one of the oldest real estate and business law firms in Southern California.  We work to accomplish our client’s goals and objectives efficiently and in a cost-effective manner.

San Diego and California real estate disputes can disrupt an otherwise profitable transaction for both the buyer and seller.  The ability to resolve your real dispute is rooted in our experience, legal skill and dispute resolution strategies.  Is it possible to develop a work-around to resolve the legal issues which stand between the parties while preserving the quality of the anticipated transaction? Will a partition action or other form of property settlement be required to resolve the matter and allow you to move forward?

The experienced real estate attorneys at the Watkins Firm have more than four decades of experience in these issues, and work to achieve your goals and objectives.  There are many ways to resolve your real estate dispute including negotiation, mediation, arbitration, or litigation.  We work with our clients to resolve these disputes as quickly as possible and in a cost-effective manner.  You should be pleased to learn the Watkins Firm is able to resolve the vast majority of our real estate disputes through effective, leveraged negotiation.  This is the fastest and least expensive path to resolve your real estate dispute in California.

Real estate disputes are governed by a different set of laws than and provide different forms of relief than typical business litigation cases.  This includes “specific performance” where the seller is forced to complete the transaction of real property, as well as “rescission” which returns the buyer to the financial point they enjoyed before entering into the contract (as if the transaction had never occurred).  Was there a failure to disclose critical information about the property?  Is there some material issue with the property, the neighborhood or other factors that substantially reduces the value of the property or your ability to enjoy it?

Pro-Tip: “Real estate in California and everywhere else is unique. And I say that on purpose. It’s unique, meaning a Rembrandt is unique. And according to the law, art and residential real estate is unique. Meaning you can’t just give somebody a bunch of money saying, I’m sorry, I’m keeping your property, or I’m not selling the property because here’s the money, it’s irreplaceable. It’s unique.

So if you have a contract with somebody to buy their property and you performed all the obligations, you can get something called specific performance. You can get a judge to tell (order) the seller ‘you can’t buy your way out of this. You have to give them the property.’ This kind of thing happens. Let’s say you have this real estate, you’re at escrow to sell it. You got 10 acres and then you find out before close that, oh my gosh, they’re changing where the road’s going now there’s going to be a freeway here and half of yours commercial, and then it’s worth 10 times as much.

So you don’t want to sell. It’s unique. You do have to sell, but you’re going to fight like heck, to change the price and switch it. It’s not even that dramatic. It happens all the time. You have people in escrow, I get them five, 10 times a year, you’re in escrow to buy a piece of property and that the seller says, ‘I’m not selling to you.’ And it turns out they had another offer for a hundred thousand dollars more and they just say, ‘Nope, Sue me.’ And we do, and win.” – Dan Watkins, Founding Partner

If you are you searching for a San Diego real estate attorney with proven experience to resolve your real estate dispute we invite you to review our podcast Episode 43 – Real Estate Disputes as well as the strong recommendations of our clients and contact the Watkins Firm or call 858-535-1511 for a complimentary consultation today.