The real estate and construction sector in Colombia has grown significantly in recent years due to incentives for the purchase of residential properties, the arrival of international players, and the growth of intermediate-sized cities around the country.
When looking to invest in the real estate sector in Colombia or when the investment involves the participation of complex investment structures, rely on the Real Estate & Construction team at CMS Rodríguez-Azuero who will provide you with strategic, efficient, and innovative solutions to structure businesses.
We provide advice in the structuring of projects in all stages, with the premise of achieving legal efficiency, mitigation of risk, and contractual agility, as well as in matters of assets and property, investor linkage, community management and relations with neighbors, insurance management, support in all types of real estate transactions, administration of property portfolios, execution of contracts, property leases, horizontal property and litigation related to the operation of the project.
Additionally, the firm offers advice, regarding license management, management of partial plans, and advice in sanction processes before local, district, and national authorities. We offer comparative legal concepts of urban actions for the identification of generative events, advice on the determination, settlement, and calculation of participation in the added value tax, and the structuration of systems for equitable distribution of charges and benefits.
We also have significant experience advising clients on the review and analysis of concession, construction, design, sales, auditing, and management, among other types of contracts.
Services in the area
Real Estate Law
- Studies of titles
- Clearance of encumbrances
- Contracts for the acquisition of real estate
- Contracts for the development of real estate projects
- Contracts for the linking of capital to the development of real estate projects
- Contracts for hotel, tourism, and commercial management and operation
- Obtaining and renewing the national tourism registry
- Fiduciary structuring of real estate projects
- Horizontal property regulations
- Reform of horizontal property regulations
- Manuals of window dressing, coexistence, use, use of common goods, reserve zones, etc.
- Advice on horizontal property conflicts
- Rectifications of boundaries and boundaries
- Real estate leasing contracts
- Real estate concession contracts
- Participation account contracts
- Legal diagnoses on any real estate issue
- Envelopes, disenglobes, lots, and material divisions
- Partial sales and purchases
- Transactions and acquisitions of real estate assets
- Structuring of real estate guarantees
- Commodatum contracts
- Constitution and cancellation of easements
- Constitution and cancellation of usufruct
- Dations in payment
- Exchanges
Urban Law
- Land use concepts
- Concepts for the application of urban regulations
- Legal advice on urban development licensing procedures in all its classes and modalities
- Filing of appeals for reconsideration and appeals against administrative acts that decide urban development license applications
- Formulation of opposition in urban development licensing procedures
- Processing of preliminary drafts on properties of cultural interest
- Legal advice in the formulation of partial urban renewal and development plans
Police Law
- Defense in abbreviated verbal police proceedings for urban infractions
- Filing of police complaints for urban infractions and/or disturbance of possession.
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