- Practice Areas
Commercial Real EstateAcquisitions, Financing and Sales Leasing
Retail and Shopping Center Development
Residential, Multi-Family and Mixed-Use Development
Warehouse, Industrial and Institutional Development
Condominium and Planned Community Law
Senior Housing Development
1031 Like-Kind Exchanges
- Education
University of North Carolina, B.S., 1986
University of North Carolina, J.D., 1989
- Bar Admissions
North Carolina
Georgia
- Professional Activities
Board Certified Specialist in Real Property LawBusiness, Commercial and Industrial Transactions by the North Carolina State Board of Legal Specialization
North Carolina State Bar, Board of Legal SpecializationSpecialist in Real Property Law subcommittee, past Chair
North Carolina Bar Association, Real Property Section, past Council Member
Associate Adjunct Professor of Law, University of North Carolina School of Law (real property practice course, 1996)
Triangle CREW (Commercial Real Estate Women), past member of the Board of Directors
International Council of Shopping Centers
- Awards and Publications
Woodward/White, Inc., The Best Lawyers in America, real estate
Business North Carolina, Legal Elite, commercial real estate
North Carolina Super Lawyers,commercial real estate
- Community and
Civic Activities East Chapel Hill Rotary Club, past member of the Board of Directors
Holly H. Alderman
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Phone 919.869.3070
Fax 919.869.3080
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100 Europa Drive
Suite 271
Chapel Hill, NC 27517
Holly Alderman focuses her practice on commercial real estate matters and typically represents local, regional and national retail, residential, restaurant, office and mixed-use development clients in the assemblage, acquisition, development, leasing, financing and disposition of properties. Ms. Alderman also has a wide range of experience in preparing the legal infrastructure for residential communities and retail developments, including property owners’ association documents, declarations of restrictive covenants, condominium declarations and sales contracts. She has represented lenders and borrowers in connection with acquisition and construction loans and the work-out of distressed loans.
Prior to joining Schell Bray, Ms. Alderman was Vice President of Commercial Transactions and in-house counsel for Investors Title Insurance Company. There, she was responsible for establishing and managing the company’s commercial transactions department, overseeing the placement and acceptance of reinsurance, and drafting and negotiating agreements in connection with reverse tax deferred exchanges for a company affiliate in its capacity as exchange accommodation titleholder.
Ms. Alderman, her husband, Neil, and their two children enjoy playing tennis, traveling, gardening and cheering the North Carolina Tar Heels on to victory in a variety of sports.

