Practice Area Guides

Real Estate

From first diligence request through final closing document, August helps real estate lawyers review due diligence packages, abstract lease portfolios, and redline deal papers—so your team can focus on getting to closing.

Close Faster with Every Document Reviewed

Real estate transactions demand speed without sacrificing accuracy. August extracts key terms from your lease portfolio, reviews due diligence documents, and redlines your deal papers so your team can focus on getting to closing.

Proof metrics: 95% Faster Project Review, 10x More Documents Processed, 60% Reduction in Prep Time.

Assistant: Diligence Without the Busywork

Real estate diligence is messy. Title reports, surveys, environmental checks, leases—scattered across folders and formats. You read everything just to find what's wrong. Upload the full package to Assistant and ask one question. August reads across every document and surfaces the risks. Issue summaries, exceptions, gaps—in minutes.

What this looks like in practice:

  • Upload a complete diligence package: title commitments, surveys, environmental reports, leases, and closing binders

  • Ask questions across the entire document set: "What are the title exceptions?" or "Which leases have below-market renewal options?"

  • Get structured outputs with risks, issue summaries, exceptions, and gaps—each linked to source text through citations

  • Move from orientation to action items in minutes instead of hours of manual review

Tabular Review: All Your Leases in One Structured View

Lease review turns into copy-paste work. Rent amounts, renewal terms, expansion rights—scattered across dozens of lease agreements. Tabular Review pulls the key terms from every lease into one table. You can see everything at once. Compare, spot gaps, move faster.

Common lease abstraction workflows:

  • Rent roll analysis: extract base rent, escalations, percentage rent, and critical dates across entire portfolios

  • Term comparison: compare renewal options, termination rights, expansion provisions, and assignment restrictions

  • Gap identification: spot missing landlord consents, incomplete exhibits, or inconsistent provision language

  • Portfolio summarization: generate executive summaries for clients reviewing acquisition targets

Each extracted answer traces back to source text through citations, so you can verify and defend every finding.

Transaction Support

In sale or refinancing transactions, run August across major leases and loan documents to flag consent requirements, change of control triggers, and prepayment penalties. Use outputs to support negotiation of SNDA, estoppel, and amendment documents.

Example workflow

  1. Upload all material leases and loan documents for the transaction.

  2. Ask August to identify consent requirements, change of control triggers, and prepayment penalties.

  3. Generate a consolidated issues list for negotiation.

  4. Use outputs to prepare SNDA, estoppel, and amendment documents.

Word Add-In: Tighter Agreements, Right Inside Word

Contract review means jumping between drafts, notes, and checklists. The Word Add-In works inside Microsoft Word. It flags weak clauses and tightens language as you go. You see the edits, keep control, and move faster.

How real estate lawyers use this:

  • Flag unusual indemnity provisions or liability gaps in purchase agreements

  • Tighten representation and warranty language based on firm standards

  • Apply suggested edits directly with tracked changes for client review

  • Use precedent documents to guide redlining suggestions for conforming edits

Integrations That Fit Your Deal Workflow

August plugs into the tools you already use:

  • Microsoft Word: live redlining and playbook checks without leaving the document

  • Outlook: email summaries and action items from deal correspondence

  • SEC EDGAR: filing research integrated into your workflow

Your document system, deal workflows, and communications tools remain unchanged.

Enterprise-Grade Security for Deal Data

Deal data is the most sensitive information your firm handles. August is built with:

  • Single-tenant deployment: your environment stays separate

  • AES-256 encryption: data protected at rest and in transit

  • Ethical walls: matter-level access control

  • No training on your documents: your data is never used to train models

August maintains ISO 27001:2022 and SOC 2 Type II certification.

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