We represent our clients in a wide variety of matters including commercial real estate financing, creditors’ rights, loan acquisition and disposition, loan workouts and foreclosure, and bank real estate operations and branch leasing.

Miller Starr Regalia’s Financial Services Practice Group offers a sophisticated and broad range of legal services to lenders and borrowers in secured and unsecured financing transactions, representing major banks and other significant institutions as well as financial commercial real estate developers and property owners.
We represent our clients in a wide variety of matters including commercial real estate financing, creditors’ rights, loan acquisition and disposition, loan workouts and foreclosure, and bank real estate operations and branch leasing.
The general limitations on reassessment of real property without a “change of ownership” under the 1978 voter initiative known as “Proposition 13” deserve renewed attention after the failed effort to enact Proposition 15 in 2020.
Miller Starr Regalia (MSR), a preeminent California real estate law firm for more than 50 years, is pleased to announce that Bryan W. Wenter, a land use shareholder and principal author of the Land Use Developments blog, has been selected as a “Lawyer of the Year” in Oakland Land Use and Zoning Law in The Best Lawyers in America 2021©. In addition, Wenter and nine other MSR attorneys were selected for inclusion in the 2021 edition of The Best Lawyers in America©.
The recent case of Taniguchi v. Restoration Homes, LLC, on rehearing, held unenforceable a default clause in a loan modification agreement that purported to allow the lender to call due a deferred principal and interest balance if the borrower ever defaulted on the new, modified reduced payment schedule
Miller Starr Regalia is pleased to announce that Eugene H. Miller, chairman emeritus, has been selected by his peers for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America 2020© and has been honored for the third time as the Best Lawyers’ 2020 Oakland Real Estate Law “Lawyer of the Year”. In addition, eight other MSR attorneys were selected for inclusion in the 2020 edition of The Best Lawyers in America© directory.