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Kate Mathews focuses her practice on providing clients with practical, creative, business-driven solutions to complex legal issues. Kate’s experience handling sophisticated real estate and commercial finance transactions translates into valuable counsel to her clients.

Kate routinely works with real estate developers on purchase and sale transactions, including representation of both buyers and sellers of real estate in multiple states in a variety of sectors including office, industrial, multifamily, and retail. Kate has a strong background in Low-Income Housing Tax Credits, tax-exempt bond financing, state and local financing and equity structuring, land acquisition and financing, construction and permanent financing, retail and industrial leasing, workforce housing initiatives, and divestiture of assets and investments.

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In June 2026, Congress, in a bi-partisan action, passed the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act (the “Act”) which is widely viewed as the most significant federal housing legislation in decades. While President Trump did not sign the Act into law, neither did he timely veto the Act and so, as of July 11, 2026

After a year of policy review, the City of Tacoma has amended its ordinances to provide some landlords of affordable housing with significant relief from a number of onerous burdens imposed on landlords by the City’s “Landlord Fairness Code Initiative” (For the sake of clarity, we will refer to it as the Tenant Protection Code