Profile

Dick Unger has more than 35 years of experience representing private, public and institutional developers, purchasers, equity investors and lenders. Mr. Unger counsels clients in the development, acquisition, financing, operation, sale and leasing of all forms of commercial, industrial and residential real estate, with a particular emphasis on the resort development industry. In addition, he is a frequent speaker and author on real estate development topics.

Mr. Unger is a certified circuit court mediator in South Carolina concentrating in the mediation of real property disputes.

Experience Highlights

• Land acquisition, development, financing and operation of resort and mixed-use properties in the United States, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean
• Structuring and formation of homeowners' associations and governing documents
• Structuring and formation of investment entities
• Negotiating marketing, management, franchise, development, construction and design agreements
• Structuring, timeshare registration, development, marketing and closing of whole and fractional residential ownership products, rental management programs and resort clubs
• Structuring, development, financing and marketing of equestrian, golf and marina developments
• Registering residential and resort communities and condominiums with the Office of Interstate Land Sales (OILS) of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and state regulatory agencies
• Obtaining securities commission exemptions for resort clubs
• Negotiating commercial leases and shopping center transactions
• Financing, development and operation of hotels and related hospitality industry facilities
• Obtaining state and local zoning and land use regulatory approvals for developers 

News

• ACC Publication Features Article by Dick Unger
  Easements in Today’s World
  Association of Corporate Counsel – South Carolina Chapter
  April 1, 2013
• Dick Unger Appointed to Executive Committee of Charleston County Bar Association
  March 20, 2013
• Dick Unger Reelected to SC Bar House of Delegates
  May 1, 2012
• Parker Poe Grows Resort, Hospitality and Planned Development Practice with the Addition of Richard M. Unger
  March 7, 2008

Events & Speaking Engagements

• Surveys 101
  April 2013
  Palmetto Land Title Association 35th Annual Spring Convention
• Land Boundaries, Regulations and Access Rights
  December 2012
  HalfMoon Education Inc.
• Easements and Surveys: Don’t Always Believe What You Read or See
  October 2012
  First American 2012 Seminar
• Property for Probate & Family Court Lawyers
  April 2012
  Palmetto Land Title Association 34th Annual Spring Convention
• Easements: Rights of Way and Other Encumbrances
  June 2010
  Professional Education Systems Institute Real Property Seminar, Columbia, SC and Charleston, SC

Publications

“Easements in Today’s World,” ACC-SC Chapter Newsletter, April 2013

Co-author, Guiding Those Left Behind in South Carolina: The Legal and Practical Things You Need to Do to Settle an Estate in South Carolina, Eagle Publishing Company, 2002

Memberships

• Charleston County Bar Association
  Executive Committee
• South Carolina Bar
  House of Delegates, Ninth Judicial Circuit; Former Delegate, Fifth Judicial Circuit
• Wounded In Action Family Foundation
  Board of Directors Founding Member
• VistaBank
  Board of Directors
• Palmetto Land Title Association (PLTA)
  Past Director
• Charleston Trident Association of REALTORS®
  Commercial and Industrial Developers Division
• Urban Land Institute (ULI)
  
• South Carolina Chamber of Commerce
  
• Community Association Institute
  
• Home Builders Association of Greater Columbia
  
• Home Builders Association of South Carolina
  
• National Home Builders Association
  
• National Land Council