Reuben, Junius & Rose, LLP is a full-service real estate law firm. We deliver high-quality legal work with small-firm efficiencies and pricing.
Our attorneys counsel and represent clients in all facets of real estate law, with special emphasis on real estate transactions and land use planning and zoning. We take considerable pride in our attorneys’ experience, versatility and commitment. In conjunction with delivering high-quality legal services, we encourage every member of the firm to become actively involved in the San Francisco community.
The firm culture prizes practicality and efficiency. Clients are invited to communicate frequently with their attorneys regarding any aspect of the attorney-client relationship, including fees. We are especially proud of the trust, friendship and confidence we have earned, as evidenced by our long-term relationships with many clients.
The firms clients include globally recognized developers such as Tishman-Speyer Properties, Kilroy Realty, Boston Properties, Equity Residential, United Dominion, and others. We also represent national retailers like CVS pharmacies, Starbucks Coffee, Sherwin-Williams Paints, and more. And finally, we represent many small property owners and developers.
Reuben, Junius & Rose, LLP provides full-service representation for purchase and sale transactions, including drafting and legal review of purchase and sale agreements and associated closing documents. Our attorneys have experience with
Join us for a panel with leading experts in varied fields to share insights on office-to-residential conversions in San Francisco and beyond. Panelists will focus on buildings with distinctive features in promising neighborhoods or locations near business districts. The speakers will consider design, legal, and financial implications of converting existing office and mixed commercial buildings to residential uses. The discussion will primarily spotlight buildings where conditions and opportunities are most favorable to adaptive reuse and redevelopment. Panelists: Charles Bloszies / FAIA, Architect & Structural Engineer Andrew Junius / Reuben, Junius, & Rose, Land Use Attorney Joy
The Commercial Tenant Protection Act, which was passed by the California legislature in 2024 and took effect as of January 1, 2025, expanded certain protections which already may benefit residential tenants to include certain classes of commercial tenants. Specifically, tenants who are (i) microenterprises (those businesses with 5 employees or less and have limited access to capital or loans), (ii) restaurants with less than 10 employees, and (iii) nonprofit entities with less than 20 employees, all collectively known as “Qualified Commercial Tenants” (“QCT”). In order to qualify as a QCT, a tenant must annually represent to
Legislation has been introduced in San Francisco that would suspend the imposition of the “Empty Homes Tax” until a final decision is reached in litigation against the tax, promising certainty for taxpayers as the courts decide the legality of the tax. Aimed at bringing residential housing stock back into the local rental market, the Empty Homes Tax was adopted by San Francisco voters with the passage of Measure M in November 2022 and imposes a tax on vacant residential units beginning in the 2024 tax year, with payments generally due beginning in April 2025. As we
In November of last year, to little fanfare, the San Francisco Planning Department presented to the Planning Commission its new Citywide Objective Design Standards. San Francisco, like cities across the state, are grappling with the brave new world of objective standards as required by recent housing legislation out of Sacramento. As the dust settles around the new and improved Housing Element process, the next battleground will be over individual projects, and each jurisdiction’s take on how to implement “objective standards.” The need for objective standards is straightforward: as the state took dramatic action to jumpstart housing
On December 10th Mayor Breed and Supervisor Mandelman introduced BOS File No. 241197, an ordinance that would create the Cole Valley Entertainment Zone. Buoyed by the success of the Entertainment Zones that occurred downtown, this is an acknowledgment that there are other parts of San Francisco that have yet to recover from the pandemic-related downturn. As a refresher, entertainment zones enable restaurants and bars in designated areas to sell alcoholic beverages to go for outdoor consumption during events and activations. The establishment of entertainment zones stems from the Mayor’s Roadmap to San Francisco’s Future, which has
