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Our top-tier housing team adds value throughout the full lifecycle of your residential developments.
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With the much-needed push to provide more high-quality homes over the coming years, housebuilders need a reliable legal team that acts proactively and collaboratively to get the job done.
From advising on the initial structuring and financing of projects to assisting with planning and land acquisition, negotiating development and construction agreements and dealing with the critical disposals, management and refinancing — as well as advising on any disputes that arise along the way — our experts can support even the largest and most complex transactions.
We have the experience required to support all your legal needs, including delays in securing planning permission for development, access to funding, biodiversity net gain and Future Homes Standard compliance.
Experienced property lawyers
Our team is led by experienced property lawyers Helen Brown and Ellen Hawthorne.
Helen handles large-scale site acquisition and assembly for both residential and commercial developers, involving option agreements, freehold and long leasehold purchase contracts with complex conditionality, overage agreements, surrenders, licences, deeds of rectification and easements.
Ellen is an experienced real estate lawyer who specialises in freehold and leasehold acquisitions and disposals, drainage easements, securitisation and residential and commercial development work, advising on issues such as site assembly matters and infrastructure agreements and estate and asset management matters.
Our development team supports with all types of acquisitions, disposals, site set ups and infrastructure agreements and our plot sales team deals with all affordable housing and private sale disposals in an efficient and cost-effective manner to help our clients realise those critical capital receipts.
Our planning and construction teams provide the ancillary advice and services required on all developments and our litigation team steps in when things do not go quite to plan, including advice on contractor insolvencies and disputes.
Our services for housebuilders
- Full planning, development & construction services
- Advice on Section 106 affordable housing requirements & planning constraints
- Funding document advice (including grant-funding agreements)
- Site acquisition & assembly services
- Banking & funding advice
- Financial modelling support
- Corporate transactions
- Commercial & contract law
- Disputes & litigation
- Governance arrangements (including shareholders agreements & articles)
- Structuring options (including joint ventures & partnerships)
- Fundraising & securitisation
“The services we have received across a broad spectrum of areas within our business have been of a high quality and the users within our business consistently provide positive feedback.”
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“Excellent breadth of knowledge… Everything available from one firm.”
The Legal 500, 2024
“Excellent advice which is bespoke to our needs. The whole team is responsive, knows our organisation well and clearly invests in its people.”
The Legal 500, 2024
“Ian Alderson is excellent on property-focused matters… [He] can provide answers to very complex legal questions in plain English and with practical pointers. He’s just a great lawyer to have in your corner.”
Chambers and Partners, 2024
“Alistair Fletcher is a great lawyer… very thorough and solution-based. You know the job will be done well if Alistair is involved. He’s very experienced and knowledgeable... a great individual and fabulous lawyer.”
Chambers and Partners, 2024
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