Dallas Real Estate Litigation Attorney
The Dallas real estate litigation attorneys at Roquemore Skierski PLLC represent buyers, sellers, developers, contractors, landlords, tenants, and property-owning businesses across Dallas, Collin, Denton, and Tarrant Counties, with a focus on the commercial real estate that drives the Dallas-Fort Worth market. A real estate dispute rarely stays contained. A commercial lease, a development schedule, a financing arrangement, or a partnership inside a property-owning entity can each turn a single disagreement into a threat to the deal, and the pressure from lenders, tenants, and the cost of delay usually forces a decision before the law does.
We litigate these disputes for the business result, not for their own sake, and the same attorneys handle the contract, fraud, fiduciary, and construction claims a real estate fight tends to pull in with it.
What Real Estate Litigation Covers in Dallas
Real estate litigation covers disputes tied to real property and the deals built on it, and in the commercial context that means income-producing property: office buildings, retail centers, industrial sites, multi-family properties, hotels, and mixed-use developments. A dispute can surface at any stage of the property’s life, during acquisition, financing, development, construction, management, or leasing, and the claims change with the stage. What looks like a single broken deal often carries several distinct claims, which is why the analysis starts with the documents rather than the grievance.
The recurring matters we handle include:
- Purchase and sale disputes, including specific performance, earnest money and escrow fights, and breach of representations and warranties
- Commercial lease disputes, from unpaid rent and holdover to build-out, maintenance, and eviction remedies
- Title disputes, boundary and easement conflicts, and disputes over restrictive covenants
- Construction and project-delivery disputes, including change orders, delay claims, and defective work
- Mechanic’s and materialman’s lien claims, including filing, foreclosure, and removal
- Lender and financing disputes, including construction draws, guaranty enforcement, and lien-priority fights
- Deceptive Trade Practices Act claims tied to a real estate transaction under the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act, Chapter 17 of the Texas Business and Commerce Code
- Breach of fiduciary duty in real estate partnerships and joint ventures
How Commercial Real Estate Disputes Arise in Dallas
Commercial real estate disputes in Dallas usually arise where money, time, and control intersect. For developers and investors, the trigger is often a purchase and sale agreement that breaks down over due diligence, a title defect, or a missed closing milestone, and in a market where time-to-market drives value, those disputes reward fast action to preserve the deal or cut the loss.
Leasing conflicts escalate quickly because the property is an operating asset on both sides. A landlord facing unpaid rent, abandonment, or property damage needs possession and payment remedies; a tenant facing a broken build-out obligation or an interruption that cuts revenue needs the lease enforced. When the dispute involves financing, lenders and borrowers fight over draws, collateral, and guaranties, and lien-priority contests pull in mechanic’s lienholders and junior or mezzanine lenders on a compressed timeline. Because Dallas construction and development move on tight schedules, these disputes often surface as a project is underway rather than after it closes, which raises the stakes on early injunctive relief.
How a Dallas Real Estate Litigation Attorney Builds the Case
A real estate case is won or lost before the pleadings, in the early moves that set up everything after. We begin each matter by reading the contracts, the timelines, and the notice and cure provisions immediately, because a missed notice deadline can decide a case that the facts would otherwise win. From there we identify the leverage the documents and the statutes actually provide, preserve the evidence and build a clean factual record, and press for resolution through negotiation, mediation, or arbitration where that serves the client’s business.
Where the property or the deal is at immediate risk, speed is the remedy that matters. We move for temporary restraining orders and temporary injunctions under Texas Rules of Civil Procedure 680 through 689 when a party is proceeding with a wrongful foreclosure, breaching a lease in real time, or diverting the funds of a property-owning venture. A larger commercial real estate dispute may fall within the jurisdiction of the Texas Business Court, the specialized court the Legislature created in 2024 for high-value business cases, where the amount in controversy meets that court’s threshold.
Why Dallas Real Estate Clients Choose Roquemore Skierski PLLC
Real estate disputes rarely involve only real estate, and our firm handles the whole of the conflict rather than a slice of it. We bring decades of Texas practice across construction litigation, business litigation, partnership and shareholder disputes, breach of fiduciary duty, and fraud, which matters when a real estate dispute is tied to a larger business relationship. We litigate in the district courts of Dallas, Collin, Denton, and Tarrant Counties and in the Texas federal courts, for privately held companies and owner-operators across commercial real estate and construction, retail, hospitality, professional services, technology, and manufacturing. Matters inside our practice areas stay with us, and where a case needs expertise we do not hold in house, construction and valuation experts being the common examples, we engage and manage them inside the litigation.
How our team resolves business disputes, from start to finish.
We review the governing documents, build a factual timeline, gather key evidence, confirm deadlines, and align the legal approach with the client's business objectives.
We send a strategic demand letter identifying the dispute, proposing solutions, and setting a deadline. When assets or trade secrets are at risk, we seek immediate court relief to prevent further harm.
We pursue negotiation or mediation where productive, while continuing to preserve evidence and develop the case so leverage remains intact if settlement efforts do not succeed.
If a resolution is not reached, we file suit, use focused motions and discovery to narrow the dispute, present the case at trial, and enforce any favorable judgment.
Frequently Asked Questions About Real Estate Disputes
A real estate litigation attorney represents parties in disputes over real property and the deals built on it, from commercial leases and purchase agreements to construction, title, and financing conflicts. The work runs from pre-suit demands and emergency injunctions through mediation, arbitration, and trial.
Commercial lease litigation is different because the property is an active operating asset, so the remedies focus on possession, payment, and continuity rather than only damages. Landlords typically pursue rent and possession remedies while tenants defend revenue and occupancy, and the governing lease usually controls the analysis before any statute does.