2026 Leading Real Estate Law Firms

Commercial Property Executive and Multi-Housing News invite you to participate in our 2026 survey of the Leading Real Estate Law Firms. The information you provide will be used to rank the firms with the strongest real estate practice areas. The results will be published in our May issues and widely disseminated via our websites, newsletters and social media.

Thank you in advance for taking the time to contribute to this survey. It's an important way for industry professionals to learn about the most capable and experienced real estate law practices. Please answer all questions as completely as possible. If any provided information cannot be published, please clearly indicate in your response.

The new deadline for submissions is March 5. If you have any questions, please contact Agota Felhazi at agota.felhazi@cpe-mhn.com or (800) 866-1144 ext. 18495.

Thank you for your time and participation.

Sincerely,

The CPE and MHN Team

Note: You can edit your survey up until the deadline. If you can't complete the survey all at once, you must "submit" it to save your responses, but you'll be able to access the survey to complete it later. Simply exiting the survey will not save your responses.
1.Name of Law Firm:
2.Survey Contact Person:
(For contact purposes only, will not be printed.)
3.Do you consent to be contacted by Multi-Housing News or Commercial Property Executive about this or future rankings relevant to your organization? Your data will not be shared or sold.
4.In what year was the firm founded?
5.Where is the headquarters located?
6.How many offices did the firm have at the close of the following fiscal years?
7.What was the firm’s revenue in the following fiscal years? (This will remain strictly confidential; the data will be used to determine growth of firm.)
8.How many attorneys (partners, associates, of counsel, etc.) currently work for the firm?
9.In what year was the real estate practice area first formed?
10.What was the real estate practice’s revenue in the following fiscal years? (This will remain strictly confidential; the data will be used to determine growth of firm.)
11.What was the real estate practice’s revenue per attorney in the following fiscal years?
12.What proportion of the real estate practice's work derives from repeat clients for the following fiscal years?
13.Types of real estate law services offered (i.e. acquisitions and dispositions, leasing, financing, etc.):
14.How many attorneys (Partners, Of Counsel, Senior Counsel and Associates, combined) were in the real estate practice at the close of the following fiscal years?
15.Please specify the composition of your real estate practice at the close of the fiscal year ending September 2025, as follows:
16.What is the average number of years experience for each of the following in your real estate practice?
17.Which three firms would you consider your direct competitors?
18.Highest valued transaction closed during the fiscal year ending in September 2025 (client and value). If you cannot disclose client name, please describe the type of client, i.e., "...for a private equity firm." Please limit response to 500 characters including spaces (shorter is better).
19.Please provide a list of the top 4 highest valued transactions (excluding the transaction highlighted in the previous question) that were closed during the fiscal year ending in September 2025 (client and value). If you cannot disclose a client name, please describe the type of client, i.e., "...for a private equity firm." Please limit response to 1,000 characters including spaces (shorter is better).