Cheryl Brady

Cheryl is a partner in our Real Estate team and has over 20 years’ experience dealing with real estate transactions and specialises in residential development and also mixed use and commercial development schemes acting for developers, landowners, promoters and funders.

Cheryl enjoys assisting developers through all stages of development including acquisition, planning, funding and setup of developments. She is passionate about her client’s developments and quickly becomes an integral invaluable member of the developer’s team.  She is passionate about the detail and pre-empting matters that may cause delays in the development process and finding solutions well in advance.

In her previous roles she has acted for several national housebuilders and landowners selling to developers on large strategic sites and she has also acted on medium and small sites for both commercial and residential uses.

• Acting for developers and landowners on option agreements including developments involving multiple landowners and third parties.
• Acting for developers and landowners acquiring land via a conditional contracts.
• Acting for landowners and developers on overage agreements including planning, sales overage and affordable housing overage.
• Acting for landowners and developers setting up deferred payment arrangements including legal charges to secure the proposed deferred payments and parent company guarantees.
• Acted on collaboration agreements and joint venture agreements between developers.
• Acting and advising housebuilders on turn key and golden brick agreements to Registered Providers and also advising and acting on legal agreements with community land trusts.
• Acted for housebuilders selling land for care homes, nurseries, retail and warehousing uses.
• Advised on consortium agreements and how the consortium operates within the development scheme.
• Acted on infrastructure and utility easements to provide essential services to a development site and also easements over third party land.
• Advised developers on electricity diversions including lines and towers and easements and leases necessary for servicing the site.