Keep the pieces moving.
We track the details, follow up with the people involved, and manage the sequence of work so clients can focus on the decisions that need their attention.
New Haven · Connecticut
Guidance through every moving part.
A real estate transaction or zoning matter brings together people, documents, approvals, deadlines, and decisions. Benjamin Trachten and his experienced team manage the steps behind the scenes, help clients understand their choices, and keep the original goal in view.
A focus on places and the people who shape themThe work behind the outcome
Good counsel is there all the way through.
The closing, permit, or approval is one point in a longer process. The firm’s value lies in the judgment and steady coordination it brings to the many steps before it. Decades of experience across the office help us anticipate likely trouble, explain tradeoffs, and find realistic ways through delays and bottlenecks.
See what may be coming.
Years of transactions and local approvals teach us where timing, title, financing, or review can get complicated. We raise those questions early and offer practical options.
Know whom to ask.
Ben’s social and professional ties in New Haven, along with working relationships with title insurers, mortgage lenders, real estate agents, and other industry professionals, help us get informed answers and coordinate the next step.
The practice
Across the life of a property.
From individual closings to complex development work, our office guides the process as well as the legal decisions that shape a property's use and value.
Land use & zoning
Variances, special permits, site plans, municipal reviews, and appeals.
See the workDevelopment counsel
Advice from property diligence through approvals, financing, and project agreements.
See the workTransactions & closings
Residential and commercial purchases, sales, lending, and leasing.
See the workConnected to New Haven
A practice invested in its community.
Ben’s extensive community involvement includes a long history of pro bono representation for local nonprofits: organizations serving people experiencing homelessness, religious institutions, social service and arts organizations, food incubators, and nonprofit housing developers. That work is part of the local knowledge and relationships he brings to the practice.
Client reviews
In our clients’ words.
A family legal tradition
Rooted here since 1935.
A family connection to New Haven law that reaches back to Herbert L. Batt’s admission to the bar in 1935. Murray Trachten, his first cousin, founded the firm’s predecessor in 1964; Ben leads the practice today.
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