Law Office of Jeanne M. Reardon

Focus and practice areas

This Syosset, New York firm concentrates on real estate law. It handles residential and commercial property transactions, which make up most of the daily work. The website frames the practice around the purchase, sale, lease, and financing of property, and that description holds across its pages. The firm represents individuals, businesses, and lenders on those deals.

The residential side

Within that focus, the range of home transactions is fairly wide. The firm works on houses, condominiums, and cooperatives. It also takes on new construction, multi-family houses, short sales, and REO properties. In my opinion, that spread points to a lawyer who has handled the less routine deals as well as the standard house purchase.

Commercial and financing

Commercial real estate runs alongside the residential work. Financing threads through much of it. Buyers who borrow, sellers who carry a note to closing, and the banks funding a deal all touch the same set of documents. The firm's stated role on the lender side, as well as the buyer and seller side, means it reads those loan and title papers from more than one position.

Who runs the practice

Jeanne M. Reardon founded the firm and is the attorney named on the site. Her profile lists over 25 years of experience in real estate law, and her admission record matches that. She was admitted to the New York State Bar in 1994 and to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York in the same year.

Her law degree comes from Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, earned in 1993. The site describes a small firm, and Reardon handles client files herself. She stays with each file through the consultation and the closing. For a buyer or seller, that means the same attorney holds the file across the whole matter.

Services beyond the closing table

The firm's work extends past the purchase and sale itself. It prepares deeds and handles deed transfers. It drafts residential and commercial lease agreements. Asset protection and business formations round out the services the site lists.

These additions fit a real estate practice well. A property owner setting up an LLC to hold an investment building, for example, often needs both the business formation and a deed transfer into that entity. Handling both under one roof can spare a client the work of coordinating two separate lawyers. Lease drafting draws on the same client base, since landlords and commercial tenants often own or buy property too.

Asset protection, in a real estate context, often means structuring how property is held so that it stays shielded from certain claims. Placing a rental property in an entity and reviewing how title is taken are common tools. A firm that also forms the entity and prepares the deed can line those pieces up in one place.

How a New York real estate matter tends to move

Real estate deals in New York follow a fairly set path, and knowing it helps in reading what a firm like this one does. After an offer is accepted, the attorneys for buyer and seller negotiate and sign a contract of sale. A title search then checks for liens, easements, and ownership questions before the parties move toward closing. A mortgage contingency period gives a financed buyer time to secure a loan.

New York is an attorney state for real estate. A lawyer typically drafts and reviews the contract of sale and attends the closing itself. That gives a real estate attorney a central role in most deals across the counties the firm covers.

Cooperative purchases add a step, since a co-op board reviews the buyer and approves the transfer of shares in place of a deed. Short sales and REO properties bring lenders directly into the timeline, which can stretch it out. As a reviewer, I read the firm's stated experience with these specific transaction types as a sign it works across the harder corners of the market as well as the routine deals.

Clients and coverage area

The client base named on the site runs across the market. Buyers, sellers, and investors appear alongside small businesses, lenders, and banks. Representing lenders and banks as well as individual buyers is worth noting, since it points to familiarity with both sides of a financed transaction. The mix of small businesses connects back to the firm's business formation work, since a new company often needs both a lease and an operating structure at once.

The firm reaches well beyond its home base in Syosset. It serves the five boroughs of New York City. It also covers Long Island (Nassau and Suffolk counties) and Westchester County. That is a wide service area for a small practice. That coverage has held since the firm opened its doors in 2005.