With more than 25 years of experience, Viktor Pregel provides a range of transactional real estate services to clients in the Washington, D.C. metro area. He advises institutional, corporate, and mid-market landlords, REITs, property managers, and investors in complex real estate acquisition, disposition, development, leasing and financing. Viktor has extensive experience representing lenders in the disposition of distressed property and related issues.
National and international law firms doing deals in the D.C. area often hire Viktor to serve as local counsel, and rely on his experience and long-standing relationships to navigate local rules and procedures efficiently and strategically. Viktor is respected as a trusted partner and advisor, seamlessly integrating into multi-firm teams to move projects forward.
In his early career, Viktor represented the D.C. government in complex real estate matters, with an emphasis on economic development projects, public-private partnerships and projects involving U.S. government agencies. As a result, he acquired extensive experience useful for private-sector clients seeking to navigate the complexities of real estate projects involving government entities.
Viktor provides experience and knowledge pertaining to the major industries operating in the D.C. metro area, ensuring that clients comply with specific rules, requirements, and regulations. This includes efficiently navigating the needs and requirements for secure defense-related real estate projects and sensitive compartmented information facilities (SCIFs).
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Case Studies
- Negotiated the acquisition of a 500+ unit apartment complex in Washington, D.C.
- Served as local counsel to a lender in the acquisition and conversion of a distressed hotel in foreclosure at auction, helping quickly find a third-party buyer to get the property off the lender’s books.
- Represented a defense-related REIT in executing a full-building leasing deal with a research university for a high-end secure facility.
- Served as local counsel to a national law firm coordinating a complex multijurisdictional transaction involving several properties.
- Represented the District of Columbia in partnership with a private developer in a disposition and tax increment financing transaction that turned previously undeveloped, untaxed land into a 430,000-square-foot shopping center.
- Negotiated a complex disposition, financing and air rights transaction in connection with a mixed-use development combining condominium, affordable housing, fire station, library and retail uses.
- Represented an international manufacturer in the acquisition of a smelting plant in West Virginia.
- Negotiated the development of a LIHTC-financed affordable housing project designed to provide transitional housing for homeless military veterans.
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