Our experience of acting for private individuals, pension funds and property companies, has made it clear that a thorough understanding of our client’s needs is essential to the efficient and successful resolution of any transaction.

Whether individual or institutional, companies or pension funds, developers or investors in commercial property, you require your legal advisors to be fast, commercial, pragmatic and cost effective. To protect your interests by working in partnership to achieve the expected aims and objectives.

Residential Development

We act for a number of regional developers and have an expertise in both strategic and immediate land acquisitions, both urban and rural. As well as the in-depth experience and expertise at the disposal of our commercial property team, we have the resources to provide our clients a plot sales service which is of the highest quality.

A successful development requires appropriate planning advice and we have the multi-disciplined resources that can make a valuable contribution to many projects. We strive to provide a total service to meet our clients’ needs, which include:

• Liason with clients’ agents
• Confidentiality and Lock-out agreements
• Conditional sale, pre-emption and option agreements
• Overage structure
• Short term leaseback
• Stamp Duty Land Tax
• Formation of Management Companies
• Estate documentation and plot sales

As an example we have advised on the following:

• Acting for a developer in the disposal of 15 units comprising leasehold flats and freehold town houses, including all aspects of development set up from leases to creation of the management company.
• Acquisition of land for development, assisting in all stages of the development through to disposal of residential plots in excess of 750,000.00

Commercial Development

Our Property Law Team has the experience and expertise, whether your interest is property development, construction or investment.

Our clients include developers, builders, contractors, local authorities and pension funds as well as developers of mixed developments. Our range of projects include:

• Site assembly – conditional contracts and options
• Complex schemes for the development and letting of offices, shops and industrial units
• Building Leases
• Acquisition, sale and letting of commercial units
• Construction contracts, professional appointments and warrants
• S106 and associated planning and highway agreements