PRACTICE AREAS
Commercial Real Estate Lending

N. Walter Graff
Attorney | 612.349.5644
ngraff@bestlaw.com

Walt Graff is a member of the firm's Commercial Real Estate Lending and Real Estate Law practice areas. His practice emphasizes purchase and sale transactions, commercial leasing, commercial lending, complex easements and condominium/townhouse/ cooperative projects. Walt has represented all possible parties to real estate transactions, including builders, developers, investors, owners of commercial and apartment properties, lenders, homeowner associations, individual buyers and sellers, and municipalities.

Recently, he has worked on a diverse range of condominium projects, including a manufacturing facility being converted to housing, an office park, a 78-unit apartment building, and a hotel-to-residential conversion. He also prepared documents for a nonprofit organization dedicated to building affordable housing.

Walt lectures frequently for continuing legal education and has taught courses in real estate law at the University of Minnesota Law School.

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS & MEMBERSHIPS

American Bar Association

Minnesota State Bar Association

Massachusetts Bar Association

Hennepin County Bar Association (Former Chair, Real Property Section)

Builders Association of the Twin Cities

CIVIC & COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

Chancellor for the Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota

Treasurer and Member of the Board of Trustees for Northwestern Health Sciences University

Member of the Board of Directors for the US-China Peoples Friendship Association-Minnesota

He offerers pro bono services to clients through the Volunteer Lawyers Network

PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS

“What's Wrong with Homeowner Associations?” Hennepin Lawyer, June, 2003

“Condominium Conversions: Notes on the Process” and “Creation of the Home Owner Association - Basic Documentation”, Chapter 4, Home Owner Associations and Planned Unit Developments in the Real Estate Transactions Series published by Matthew Bender & Co

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