Clay & Associates Advocates is uniquely positioned to provide comprehensive and easy-to-understand legal counsel to clients engaged in all types of real estate transactions and disputes in Kenya and around East Africa.
Our lawyers have the skill and technical know-how to represent Chama groups, lenders, private real estate funds, developers, investors, entrepreneurs, and businesses in matters, transactions, and litigation related to acquiring, financing, developing, selling, leasing commercial properties, and any area around real estate.
Changing real estate and property global trends demand lawyers who understand your needs as well as the law. The way we construct, operate, invest in, and use property has been transformed. Modular construction, new investment models, and the rise of prop-tech are all opening up exciting new opportunities.
Whatever your real estate legal needs, Clay & Associates Advocates’ team is available to provide you with specifically tailored and client-focused legal service solutions at a predictable and agreeable fee.
Find out more about what Real Estate & Property legal services can be offered to you or your business, by contacting our law practice on +254 20 2100 999 or email us at [email protected].
Every real estate deal requires a document. As your real estate transactional lawyers, we will prepare the documents that make your deal go smoothly. Our real estate lawyers will negotiate the deal terms and makes sure that the document accurately reflects your individual or business needs.
After the contract is signed, we will you with due diligence: land registry search, title, environmental impact assessments, regulatory, change of user, financing, and the transfer of title.
Finally, our law firm will help you prepare the documents needed for closing: an opinion letter, land registry search, resolutions, assignments of leases and assignments of rent, and other documents.
Clay & Associates Advocates also helps you with other real estate documents: leases, easements, charges, mortgages, refinancings, and subdivision of land for development.
Our lawyers are available to assist clients with all types of development projects ranging from standalone retail, industrial, mixed-use, multi-family, and office properties to planned communities and larger mixed-use developments.
We are available to guide you through every stage of the development process, beginning with deal structure, capital procurement, and transaction negotiation, through physical, survey, and title-related due diligence and issues.
Following the closing of your commercial real estate transaction, we remain ready to assist throughout your ownership on leasing matters, future refinancing, and disposition.
We assist owners, operators, developers, lenders, tenants, and institutional investors and advisors with a wide variety of real estate & property-related transactions as well as litigation.
Buying a new home is an exciting life event but it can feel overwhelming when starting the process. Whatever process you choose, from mortgage or other real estate financing product, self-supervised construction, or upfront cash payments, our law firm is here to help you.
Our real estate & property lawyers are here to help you navigate the path to due diligence, exchanging contracts, and moving into your new home above and beyond your expectations including insurance advice for home insurance policies, contractor agreements, restructuring advice when dealing with lenders.
Accessing easily understood and straightforward legal advice has never been easier with Clay & Associates Advocates.
Not every real estate deal or real estate relationship goes perfectly. Sometimes you will need to go to court to protect your interests.
Our real estate litigators know Kenyan land laws and how a judge might understand property law.
Typical types of real estate litigation include beacon or boundary disputes, adverse possession, defects in title, disputes related to charges, tax including capital gains tax and stamp duty, lender disputes with banks or SACCOs, breach of contract cases, landlord-tenant matters, and commercial lease termination disputes.