Meet the team
Real Estate
Piper Alderman
Adelaide, Australia+4 other locations
- Sydney, Australia
- Melbourne, Australia
- Brisbane, Australia
- Perth, Australia
Team Services
A strong commercial focus is integral to obtain favourable outcomes for clients in the real estate sector.
We combine commercial nous with extensive experience and legal skills to achieve excellent results for our clients in this sector.
Piper Alderman provides a broad range of services to clients involved in the real estate sector including:
- Institutional investors
- REITs
- Property developers
- National landlords and tenants
- Air and sea port managers
- Local authorities
- Quarry operators
- Telecommunication companies and a diverse range of corporate organisations transacting in the Australian office
- Industrial
- Retail
- Hotel
- Residential
- Mining
- Aged care, and;
- Rural property markets
Our lawyers have a strong transactional focus and are highly responsive, especially in the document preparation and transaction
negotiation stage. We have the experience to provide commercially astute advice and recommend solutions which reflect commercial objectives and protect against unacceptable risk.
We are well known for our work with developers, where we add value to a development project by preparing quality documents and working closely with our clients to assist in firming up a development feasibility and in document preparation and negotiation to identify the legal and commercial risks, and make recommendations on managing those risks.
Our many years of industry experience in the leasing sector enables us to provide high quality, sensible and cost effective advice to landlords and tenants across Australia in office, commercial, industrial, retail and strata title leasing, agreements for lease, incentive and fit out deeds, licences and assignments. We also have extensive experience and intimate knowledge of strata title schemes in each state acting mainly for apartment developers in preparation of ‘off the plan’ contracts and disclosure statements, scheme structuring, staging of strata title development and management rights.
Our clients operating in the real estate sector also benefit from the expertise of our national firm with whom our real estate lawyers work closely. Some of those areas of expertise include:
- Corporate
- Commercial
- Tax
- Construction
- Infrastructure
- Banking
- Finance
- Employment Relations
- Dispute resolution
Testimonials
Awards and Recognition

The Legal 500 Asia Pacific: Australia - Real estate, 2023 edition
"Piper Alderman‘s team is reputed for the uniform ‘depth of skills and experience amongst partners and associates.’ The group is led from Adelaide by exceptional all-round lawyer‘ Adam Rinaldi, alongside the Brisbane-based Mark Askin, who has acted for leading property institutions and REITs in various real estate capital transactions on a national scale. Other key names to note include the Brisbane-based Lauren Abbott, who was promoted to senior associate in July 2021." In the 2023 edition of The Legal 500 Asia Pacific, Piper Alderman was recognised across 12 areas of law including Real Estate. A number of our team members were highlighted as recommended or key lawyers for this category including: Adam Rinaldi, Lauren Abbott and Mark Askin

THE BEST LAWYERS IN AUSTRALIA, 2024 EDITION
In the 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers in Australia, 54 of Piper Alderman’s lawyers are recognised across 43 legal areas including the following, in which our Real Estate team members were recognised for: Real Property Law, Leasing Law, Native Title Law & Planning & Environment Law.

Doyle's Guide
Piper Alderman has been recognised as a Leading Property & Real Estate Law Firm in South Australia & Queensland in 2023, along with Mark Askin recognised as a Leading Property & Real Estate Lawyer and Leasing Lawyer in Queensland and Adam Rinaldi recognised as a Leading Property & Real Estate Lawyer and Leasing Lawyer in South Australia.

AUSTRALASIAN LAWYER FAST FIRM 2023
Listed since 2021 as an Australasian Lawyer Fast Firm, recognising Australia's fastest growing law firms.