Real estate

We provide advice on all aspects of real estate and within all sectors, whether private, public or social housing. Our advisory services are based on our extensive insight into the industry, longstanding experience and commercial acumen.

We provide advice on all aspects of real estate and within all sectors, whether private, public or social housing. Our advisory services are based on our extensive insight into the industry, longstanding experience and commercial acumen.

The property market has undergone a major transformation over the years. In addition, the area is characterised by increasingly complex regulation, which places great demands on specialist knowledge, whether with respect to purchasing, selling, building, renting or leasing of real estate. We have composed a dedicated real estate team offering highly specialised advisory services centred around the client’s needs and requirements.

Real estate specialists with extensive experience

Our team of real estate specialists have extensive experience in advising Danish and international real estate investors, public authorities and the social housing sector. We work closely together with the many other specialists at Poul Schmith to offer our clients full-range assistance.

We ensure a smooth process by investing the required time, dedication and resources in all phases in order to achieve a process tailored specifically to the needs and requirements of each individual client.

We believe that the combination of our extensive industry insight, longstanding experience and commercial acumen creates value for our clients.

International rankings

LEGAL 500 REAL ESTATE AND CONSTRUCTION 2024

Tier 2

"Very skilled, professional and focused on solutions. Quick response. Broad experience – and competences."

Chambers Europe Real Estate 2024

Band 2

"Poul Schmith has an array of experts with broad experience regarding all kind of legal matters, giving them the ability to handle very complex and sophisticated matters."

LEGAL 500 REAL ESTATE AND CONSTRUCTION 2023

Tier 2

"Highly skilled and professional team with a pragmatic and friendly approach. The team is very talented and has an excellent understanding of the public sector. They are structured and thorough and deliver high quality. They are outstanding."

Chambers Europe Real Estate 2023

"Poul Schmith is a team of extremely well-skilled lawyers with a solid understanding of the commercial aspects to transactions."

Our advisory services

We provide assistance in a wide range of areas related to real estate, including:

  • Real estate transactions (M&A Real Estate)
  • Legal due diligence investigations
  • Property development and real estate projects
  • Planning of processes and structuring of purchase and sale of property portfolios or property companies
  • Construction and procurement law
  • Social housing, including tenant participation
  • Residential lease law, including the special legislation governing social housing
  • Commercial lease law
  • Financing of real estate
  • Environmental and planning issues
  • Land registration

How we work

It is important to us to understand our clients’ businesses so that we may tailor our advisory services to their specific legal and commercial requirements and challenges. By knowing our clients’ risk profiles, investment horizons, etc., we provide value-adding advice and act not just as attorneys, but as our clients’ trusted advisor.

We make sure that we have the right team of experienced advisors early in the process in order to look after the individual client’s interests. In our experience, a small team of experienced specialists are able to offer a client the highest level of commercial and value-adding legal assistance. In short, we provide legal assistance focused on cost-effective advice and high professional standards.

Contact our real estate specialists

Do you need advice on purchasing, selling or financing real estate, social housing or any other legal assistance related to real estate? Contact our team of experienced advisors and let us help you.

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