Areas of Practice

Property Types We Work With

Commercial

Big Box Retailers

Nora Devine is one of the premier big box attorneys in the United States. She served on the Sponsored Research Committee (a/k/a “The Big Box Committee”) for the Institute For Professionals in Taxation and has presented on big box topics in Illinois and nationally for the IPT, the Chicago Bar Association, the International Association of Assessing Officers, and the Illinois State Bar Association. She has deep experience representing national retailers who occupy big box as well as junior box buildings. She has taught “Analysis of Commercial Appraisals” and “Assessment of Big Box Properties” for the entity that most commonly certifies the assessing officials in Illinois.

Junior Box
Inline Retailers
Central Business District Buildings
Parking Garages
Free Standing Single Tenant (such as daycare and bank buildings)
Commercial Strip Centers
Lifestyle Centers
Office Buildings
Car Dealerships

Industrial

Owner-occupied
Distribution Centers
Warehouses

Multi-Tenant

Large Apartment Buildings
2-6 flats
Low-Income Housing
Adaptive Reuse
New Construction

Senior Housing

Life Care Facilities
Continuum of Care Facilities
Nursing Homes
Memory Care

Single Family

Luxury Market

Nora Devine has represented many of the highest assessed residential properties in the counties of Lake and Cook. She is an expert on residential land value in Lake County and has utilized advanced strategies such as conservation easements and landmark freezes to mitigate property tax liability for her luxury residential clients. Nora has represented more than one hundred properties that were valued higher than $3,000,0000 for property tax purposes. She keeps a close eye on the market, remains in close contact with high-end residential brokers, and knows which appraisers to hire as expert witnesses should an adversarial tax appeal become necessary.