Real estate lawyers for property developers.
Bespoke legal advice. Here for all aspects of commercial and residential development.
Your lawyers when you’re looking to develop property.
You need projects completed on time, within budget, and with minimal risk. We can help you get where you need to be.
Your development project may be simple and fast-paced, or a more complex multi-sector build. Whether you’re developing residential properties, student accommodation, build to rent, retirement villages, infrastructure (e.g. data centres and renewable energy), residential, commercial office, retail or even sportsgrounds; we can help.
First things first, we get to know you, your challenges and how you’d like us to work with you. We understand the issues arising from development projects. We know the sectors you operate in. This is how we provide commercially attuned legal advice and find solutions, not problems.
Our multi-disciplinary, multi-office developer team covers all the areas of law required to build and develop real estate. From land buying or selling, planning, funding and construction; our developer team advises on all stages of a development lifecycle; from project inception to plot sales and conveyancing.
We work on a range of different sized developments and for a range of clients from large developers and, registered providers to smaller traditional house builders implementing start up development projects.
Key areas of support include:
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Strategic Land, Development Agreements and Land Acquisitions
We carry out in depth due diligence of development sites and highlight any issues which may compromise their successful funding, construction and/or sale. We deal with all types of development agreement including golden brick and acquisition of Section 106 properties for registered providers. We can help with structuring both incorporated and unincorporated joint ventures. Our collaborative approach aims to better reflect commercial objectives and exit strategies in a cost effective way.
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Promotion agreements
We advise private, commercial and institutional landowners and developers on the promotion and disposal of land for development. Our advice helps our clients maximise value from developments and overcome issues of access, ransom and equalisation.
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Infrastructure
We advise on all aspects of Section 38, Section 278 or Section 104 agreements to ensure there are no delays in construction or impediments to the funding and operation of the development.
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Planning
Planning is critical to the financial viability of any development. Our team can guide you through the process and negotiate any required planning agreements and Section 106 agreements.
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Land options and conditional contracts
Our team has extensive experience advising on all forms of land options and conditional contracts. We help to ensure the commercial objectives of the deal are reflected and provide clarity on time critical obligations, acceptable planning conditions and payment structures.
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Health and Extra Care Investor Operators
Our specialist knowledge within this sector means that we have an extensive range of experience in advising on all forms of real estate matters whether you are a developer, investor or operator of later living schemes, supported living or residential and nursing homes.
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Plot Sales
As part of our specialist New Build team our Plot Sales team work in tandem with our Developer team to understand the requirements of our house builder and development clients. The team’s expertise involves all aspects of home sales and any associated transactional work. We also offer services and advice to registered providers in the disposal of shared ownership properties.
