Eminent Domain & Property Rights

For decades, Gunster has been dedicated to providing legal counsel to clients seeking to protect their property and land use rights. Our attorneys handle a broad range of property rights matters, including direct condemnations involving the government’s exercise of the power of eminent domain, illegal development exactions that a local government seeks to place on an owner as a condition of a development approval, challenges to adverse land use and zoning decisions, inverse condemnations, regulatory takings, inordinate burdens as defined by the Bert J. Harris, Jr. Private Property Rights Protection Act, and land use related civil rights violations. The firm is also devoted to pursuing prompt resolution of land use barriers whenever possible for our clients, including the processing of claims under the Florida Land Use and Environmental Dispute Resolution Act. Whether our client is an individual property owner, corporation, developer, lender, business owner, buyer, seller, commercial landlord or tenant, Gunster attorneys have long been committed to preserving their real estate interests and property rights.