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Biography
Buying or selling a home should be more than just an average, run of the mill experience, during which you grind your teeth, squirm uncomfortably and fake a smile across the closing table. In some people’s lives, this transaction will be the largest financial transaction that they will ever conduct. The experience of the purchaser or seller should parallel the importance of the transaction.
Having a prepared attorney to represent you, gives you the peace of mind that this important transaction is being handled by a professional, with your interests in mind. So go ahead, smile genuinely at the other parties take a relaxing deep breath and even lounge in the chair at the closing table. You’ve made the right first move to have chosen Annunziata & Asllani, LLP to represent you..
Francesca Annunziata-Asllani, Esq. is a founding partner of the firm, where she mainly represents clients on residential and commercial real estate transactions and lender representation.
In her broad legal practice Francesca continues to represent numerous major institutional lenders (both retail and wholesale) by closing real estate transactions where she serves as lender’s attorney and settlement agent. On the private lending sector, she is Counsel to numerous hard money lenders and private lending institutions in commercial and residential real estate transactions in the New York Metro Area. Francesca, drafts and reviews loan documents, settlement statements, handles lender’s funds safely and securely, and conducts professional closings. She is a expert in collateral review, and re-construction and prides herself on her extensive knowledge of the NY CEMA process (Consolidation, Extension and Modification Agreement), often being able to salvage transactions that suffer from defective collateral, and therefore saving the borrower thousands of dollars in New York Mortgage Recording Tax.
Francesca is attentive to her client’s needs and makes herself available freely in order to allow her clients to have open access to her. As part of representing purchasers and sellers of condominium and cooperative apartments, Francesca conducts thorough due diligence and presents her clients with a review of the most important findings that affect one of the most signification financial transactions of the client’s life – the purchase of their home. She aggressively negotiates contracts to obtain terms most favorable to her clients, whether they are purchasing or selling. She maintains a system of transparency and constant communication with her clients which is always welcomed and appreciated. Francesca has a special place in her heart for first-time home buyers, and always takes time to explain the process from beginning to end, so that her clients are always informed and so that there are no surprises.