Practice system
Real Estate & Construction, run as a system.
Purchases, sales, leasing, development and construction: date-of-the-essence transactional work.
Contract-created dates where time is of the essence. Missing a contingency date doesn't get you sanctioned, it silently waives your client's rights: the cascade protects option value, not compliance.
Stage
Diligence expires
6d
Closing date
Sep 3
Earnest money at risk
$25,000
Computed: Critical-Date Runway
Days to the next unwaived contingency, plus the earnest-money risk state.
Posture
One question decides how the whole matter reads.
Transaction: do we represent the buyer, seller, landlord, tenant, or lender? Construction: owner, GC, subcontractor, or surety?
What it tracks
The documents this practice actually produces.
Purchase & sale agreement
Title commitment
Amendments & extensions
Lien waivers & pay applications
Closing statement
Computed
Critical-Date Runway
Days to the next unwaived contingency, plus the earnest-money risk state.
Opening checklist
What starts moving on day one.
- Conflicts incl. dual-agency issues
- Every contract date extracted and confirmed
- Title ordered, inspections scheduled
- Objection letter tracked to its deadline
- Recording confirmed post-closing
Questions
Before you book the call.
- Do you build a matter management system specifically for real estate & construction practices?
- Yes. It runs on the same MATTER Method as everything else I build, configured for how real estate & construction actually moves: Contract-created dates where time is of the essence. Missing a contingency date doesn't get you sanctioned, it silently waives your client's rights: the cascade protects option value, not compliance.
- What does the system actually track for a real estate & construction matter?
- Every stage from contract to post-closing, the facts that matter most for this practice (diligence expires, closing date, earnest money at risk), the document set the matter actually produces, and one computed read: critical-date runway, days to the next unwaived contingency, plus the earnest-money risk state.
- Can I get this through MatterOS, or does it need a custom build?
- Both. It ships as a configured practice pack inside MatterOS for solo and small-firm workflows, or as a private, purpose-built system when a firm needs more control over data, integrations or workflow. Either way, we start with a short call to see which fits.
- Do you also handle litigation technology and expert witness work for these matters?
- Separately, yes, under the same practice. If a matter needs digital evidence structured or presented in a US courtroom rather than just tracked, that is the second half of what I do. See the Services page for how that engagement runs.
Take it home
Don't want a build engagement yet? Take the blueprint.
Real Estate & Construction is one of the twenty-two packs inside Practice Pack Blueprints, the stages, vitals, deadline logic and document set for this practice, ready to install yourself. Two minutes on the readiness audit will tell you honestly whether that's enough, or whether this practice needs the full build.
Bring me the real estate & construction matter. I've probably built this before.