Commercial Property Law
Buying, leasing or developing commercial property? Cohen Legal provides practical, strategic advice for property law matters across Townsville, Mount Isa and North Queensland.
Commercial Property Transactions – Local Insight, Strategic Protection
Commercial property transactions and disputes often involve high-value assets and strict compliance requirements. Whether you’re buying an office building, leasing a retail space, or managing an investment portfolio, commercial property transactions come with higher stakes and greater complexity.
At Cohen Legal, we work with business owners, landlords, and developers throughout Townsville, Mount Isa, and regional Queensland to navigate commercial property law with confidence and clarity.
We ensure your legal documents reflect your actual commercial position. Our team reviews every clause with a strategic eye, ensuring risks are identified early, obligations are clearly defined, navigate transactions and disputes with confidence.
Why Proactive Legal Support Matters
Commercial property contracts are rarely straightforward. Whether you’re dealing with multi-use tenancies, franchise leases, retail tenancies, development conditions or titling concerns, each transaction brings a unique mix of risks and regulations.
Leases are often tailored and heavily negotiated, while purchase and sale contracts may involve complex special conditions, GST considerations, or zoning issues that impact the property’s commercial use. And if a dispute arises, having the right legal foundation makes all the difference.
By engaging Cohen Legal early in your property journey, you gain a legal partner who understands not just the law, but how commercial property operates in practice.
“A commercial lease or sale contract is not a formality – it’s a risk document. If you don’t fully understand the terms, you’re not protected.”
— Sam Cohen, Principal Lawyer
How Cohen Legal Can Help
Commercial Property Conveyancing
The conveyance of commercial property can be complex, involving multiple stakeholders, financing arrangements, and strict legal requirements. Cohen Legal can help you navigate every stage of property transactions, including:
- Commercial property sales & purchases
- Reviewing contracts
- Commercial Leasing
- Mortgages, securities and joint ventures
- Due diligence and zoning/planning approvals
Our goal is to ensure the acquisition or disposal of commercial real estate is successful while protecting your investment, managing risk, and ensuring settlement proceeds without delays.
Commercial Leasing
When entering into a commercial lease contract it’s essential that all parties fully understand their rights and obligations to protect their property, business and equipment. The team at Cohen Legal draft, review and negotiate commercial leases to ensure terms are fair, enforceable and safeguard your interests.
Lease disputes can quickly escalate, whether it’s unpaid rent or breaches of covenant. Cohen Legal lawyers represent both landlords and tenants in negotiating resolutions or pursuing remedies such as relief against forfeiture orders.
Body Corporate
At Cohen Legal, we support developers in setting up body corporate structures the right way from the start. From drafting community management statements and by-laws to advising on disclosure requirements and transition to lot owner control, we help ensure your project is compliant, marketable, and built on a solid legal foundation. Our practical guidance reduces the risk of disputes down the track and gives both you and your buyers confidence that the development will be managed smoothly into the future.
Caveats
Caveats can have a major impact on the progress of a development, as they restrict dealings with a property’s title until resolved. For developers, this means delays to settlement, finance, or project timelines if caveats are not managed correctly. At Cohen Legal, we advise on when caveats may be validly lodged, how to respond or remove them, and strategies to minimise the risk of disputes. Our practical approach ensures developers can move forward with confidence, knowing their projects are protected and unnecessary roadblocks are avoided.
Hospitality, Liquor & Gaming
Operating a hospitality or tourism business comes with strict compliance requirements. The team at Cohen Legal has up-to-date knowledge of liquor licensing, gaming regulations, and hospitality law, providing clear advice to help you manage risk and meet your legal obligations.
Easements
At Cohen Legal, we regularly advise clients on the impact of easements in commercial property transactions across Queensland. Easements, such as rights of way, drainage, or service access, can significantly affect the use, value, and future development potential of land.
Our team ensures that easements are properly disclosed, reviewed, and understood before contracts are signed, helping clients avoid costly surprises after settlement.
Whether you’re buying, selling, or developing commercial property, we provide clear, practical guidance on how easements may benefit or burden your land, and where necessary, we assist in negotiating variations or extinguishments to support your long-term goals.
Loans and securities
Mortgages, loans, guarantees, charges, and other securities require strict documentation which should be carefully drafted to protect lenders and borrowers alike. Cohen Legal property lawyers can do it all. We prepare and review all security documentation to ensure it is legally enforceable and aligned with your commercial objectives.
Town planning matters
Navigating Queensland’s town planning and development approval process can be complex, particularly for commercial projects. Our team provides clear advice on planning schemes, development applications, zoning, infrastructure charges and council compliance, so you can move forward with confidence.
Whether it’s preparing a new project, negotiating approval conditions or responding to objections, we focus on reducing risk and keeping your development on track. With practical, commercially minded legal support, Cohen Legal helps developers achieve successful outcomes without unnecessary delays.
Title disputes
Disagreements over land ownership, whether between co-owners, family members, or creditors, can quickly become complex and emotional. It’s best to get advice as early as possible. The property lawyers from Cohen Legal can provide advice to help resolve disputes around title, caveats, easements, and co-ownership arrangements.
When to Seek Legal Advice
Early legal input is essential. We recommend speaking with us before:
- Signing a heads of agreement or lease offer
- Committing to a sale or purchase
- Making changes to your property use or tenant mix
- Accepting special conditions that may appear ‘standard’
We’ll help ensure your position is protected and your obligations are clearly defined – before issues arise.
Why Choose Cohen Legal
- Local knowledge, with offices in Townsville and service across Mount Isa and regional QLD
- Deep experience in property transactions, leasing, and planning
- Proactive, solution-focused legal strategy
- Commercial awareness, not just legal compliance
Meet Sam Cohen, Principal Lawyer
Ready to Secure Your Commercial Property Interests?
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