Real Estate and Horizontal Property Law

In situations of prolonged possession without an updated registry, we evaluate whether the conditions for property acquisition through adverse possession (usucapião) are met or for the defense against actions brought by third parties. We analyze the factual and documentary situation, gather appropriate evidence—whether registries, documents, witnesses, or technical elements; design the procedural strategy, and handle lawsuits aimed at the recognition of property rights.

Once the process is concluded, we handle the update of the real estate registry and the regularization of potential liens or discrepancies between the factual situation and the registration status, providing legal certainty to ownership and facilitating future transactions such as transfers, financing, or asset divisions.

Advisory services to private, institutional, and corporate investors in real estate investment transactions, from preliminary analysis to asset exit. We conduct due diligence, namely legal and zoning checks, verifying ownership, liens and encumbrances, licenses, active contracts, including leases, potential disputes, or other relevant contingencies. We evaluate the tax framing of the transaction and future exploitation - whether leasing, accommodation, or development—in coordination with the tax team.

We support the negotiation and drafting of promissory contracts and purchase and sale agreements, as well as financing instruments and guarantees, ensuring coherence with the business model and the requirements of banks, investors, and partners.

We prepare and assist with public deeds and authenticated private documents related to purchase and sale, the creation and alteration of horizontal property, barters, donations, and other real estate transactions. We previously verify compliance between the physical reality, the property description, and the tax registry (matriz), coordinating, when necessary, with municipalities, land registries, and tax offices.

We handle the real estate and commercial registrations required to ensure the opposability of transactions against third parties and monitor compliance with associated tax obligations such as IMT and Stamp Duty, coordinating with the tax department to optimize the framework within legal limits.

When conflicts arise, whether regarding property boundaries, the execution or breach of contracts, construction defects, improper use of common areas, or discrepancies between condominium owners, among others, we analyze the client's legal position and available evidence, evaluating the most appropriate avenue: negotiation, mediation, arbitration, or judicial action. We represent owners, investors, condominium owners, developers, or condominium administrators before courts and administrative entities.

Integration with leasing, taxation, corporate, and litigation practices allows us to frame each dispute within a broader perspective, considering economic and reputational impacts, alongside the continuity of other projects and contractual relationships.

Whenever you buy, sell, rebuild, or change the use of units (frações), or when the title is old and no longer reflects the building's reality. We help create or amend horizontal property, define autonomous units and common parts, condominium quotas, and administration rules, preventing future conflicts between co-owners.

When someone has possessed a property for many years, pays taxes, and performs works as if they were the owner, but the registry is not in their name or there are old discrepancies. We evaluate whether adverse possession requirements are met, define the procedural strategy, handle the lawsuit, and subsequently update the real estate registry.

In real estate investment, we conduct legal and zoning due diligence, verify ownership, liens, licenses, existing leases, and potential disputes. We analyze the tax framing of the purchase and future exploitation, and we prepare promissory contracts, purchase and sale agreements, financing, and guarantees aligned with the business model.

We confirm whether the physical reality matches the tax registry (matriz) and property description, and we check liens, encumbrances, licenses, and the property's tax status. Before the public deed, we adjust contracts and drafts, coordinating with land registries, municipalities, and tax offices to ensure the transaction can be properly registered.

Yes. We prepare and assist with real estate and commercial registrations linked to purchases, donations, barters, horizontal property, and mortgages, guaranteeing the opposability of transactions against third parties. We coordinate these notary acts with compliance regarding tax obligations such as IMT and stamp duty.

We analyze the horizontal property title, regulations, and resolutions, evaluate works, noise, improper use of common areas or units, and determine whether negotiation, mediation, arbitration, or a lawsuit is preferable. We represent co-owners or the administration, focusing on protecting property and the viability of cohabitation.

Disputes over property boundaries, default on promissory contracts, construction defects, contractor and developer liability, contract termination, property claims (reivindicação de propriedade), or challenging adverse possession, among others. The procedural strategy is always devised alongside tax, corporate, and leasing impacts.

Before signing the first document: reservation, letter of intent, or promissory contract. In this phase, it is still possible to identify risks, negotiate essential clauses, design an efficient tax and registration structure, and prevent the purchase, sale, or investment from getting blocked at the deed or registration stage.