• videocam Live Webinar with Live Q&A
  • calendar_month May 12, 2026 @ 1:00 PM ET/10:00 AM PT
  • signal_cellular_alt Intermediate
  • card_travel Real Property - Finance
  • schedule 90 minutes

Crucial and Advanced Topics in Multifamily Purchase & Sale Agreements

Coordinating Risk, Diligence Considerations, Structuring Contingencies and Deposits, Covenant and Remedy Provisions

About the Course

Introduction

This CLE course will teach attendees about important, often overlooked and advanced topics in multifamily purchase and sale agreements (PSAs). Attendees will learn how to evaluate these topics from the standpoint of the buyer and the seller and how to address them in negotiation and drafting PSA's.

Description

Multifamily origination volume is projected to reach approximately $399 billion in 2026. Annual multifamily investment volume reached approximately $161.6 billion in 2025, reflecting renewed investor activity. Multifamily development growth continues despite interest rate volatility, in part due to efficiencies, diversified income streams, and long-term project resilience.  

Although the multifamily sector is supported by healthy demand and investment interest, poorly structured or drafted PSA’s can significantly alter the intended results of buyers and sellers, stall execution, or lead to no sale or purchase, loss of deposit, liability and/or litigation. This program provides a practical framework for structuring multifamily PSAs (also with financing in mind). Attendees will gain insight into market terms, risk allocation, and how transaction documents work together to improve deal certainty and client outcomes. 

Listen as our authoritative panel examines and analyzes key PSA provisions including post-closing enforcement planning. 

Presented By

Joseph L. Brasile
Partner
Akerman LLP

Mr. Brasile focuses his practice on complex commercial real estate transactions for owners, developers, institutional and private lenders, borrowers, landlords, and tenants. He has broad real estate financing experience with respect to permanent loans, acquisition loans, construction loans, mezzanine loans, note financings, loan sales, and underlying cooperative loans. With regard to distressed assets, Mr. Brasile handles loan workouts, forbearance agreements, deed-in-lieu of foreclosure agreements, and DIP financing and loan restructuring, often collaborating with foreclosure and/or bankruptcy counsel on such matters. For owners and developers, he has experience negotiating purchase and sale agreements, ground leases, sale leasebacks, office leases, retail leases, the purchase and sale of air rights, development agreements, bulk condominium sales, management contracts, parking agreements, loan documents, joint venture and partnership agreements, the placement of preferred equity, construction contracts, architect’s agreements, engineering contracts, exclusive leasing agreements, and other brokerage agreements.

Naheem J. Harris
Partner
Akerman LLP

Mr. Harris focuses his practice on representing domestic and international real estate companies, institutional lenders, real estate investment trusts (REITs), funds, and other real estate investors and operators on a wide range of real estate matters, including bespoke financings (mortgage, mezzanine and preferred equity investments, and both borrower and lender representations), dispositions and acquisitions, development, partnerships and joint ventures (as the operator and as equity), and complex commercial leasing matters. He additionally advises owners and operators in connection with real estate-related operational, organizational, and structural issues across various asset classes, including office, multifamily, single family, build-to-rent, industrial, life sciences, and hospitality.

Thomas G. Maira
Partner, Chair Real Estate Private Equity Group
Akerman LLP

Mr. Maira advises real estate private equity funds, investors, buyers, developers, borrowers, sellers, and lenders in connection with joint venture and preferred equity investments, acquisitions, development, mortgage and mezzanine loans, workouts and dispositions in connection with various asset classes (including multifamily, industrial, office, and retail) nationally. He previously led, in a general counsel role, a large multinational investment company’s commercial real estate legal group, including involvement with legal and business strategy, as well as transaction origination, structuring, negotiation and execution.

Credit Information
  • This 90-minute webinar is eligible in most states for 1.5 CLE credits.


  • Live Online


    On Demand

Date + Time

  • event

    Tuesday, May 12, 2026

  • schedule

    1:00 PM ET/10:00 AM PT

  1. Drafting & negotiating multifamily PSAs 
    1. Allocating fundamental risk 
    2. Considerations related to diligence scope 
    3. Contingencies and deposit structures 
    4. Representations, warranties and survival periods 
    5. Covenants
    6. Remedies
    7. Prorations
    8. Post-closing considerations
    9. Insurance & risk of loss
    10. Other crucial and advanced provisions  

This panel will review these and other key issues: 

  • Which key PSA provisions impact financing?
  • What are the current market terms for important provisions?