Portfolio asset management

Our Real Estate lawyers, based in Kent, has a wealth of experience acting for both landlords and tenants of property portfolios.

We provide the following services:

• Expanding portfolios – new leases, site acquisition and purchases
• Moving on – sales, lease surrenders, break clauses and assignments
• Managing transition and changes – agreements for lease, licences for alterations, underletting and deeds of variation
• Consolidation and review – day to day asset management, review of existing leases and refinance
• Managing a tenant’s exit from a lease – assisting and settling claims for dilapidations and/or reinstatement
• Development potential – advising on a strategy for obtaining possession
• When things go wrong – recovering rent and other payments due and enforcing tenant covenants
• Insolvency – protecting your position when a tenant becomes insolvent or is on the brink of insolvency
• Renewing business tenancies – guiding you through the statutory process from start to finish
• Lease enfranchisement and extension.

We provide advice to landlords in the event of tenants defaulting and work closely with our real estate dispute colleagues.

Our Real Estate lawyers, based in Kent but acting for clients nationally, form one of the largest and most experienced teams in the region. We offer commercial advice and a London style service that helps you achieve your objectives as swiftly and cost effectively as possible.

We place an emphasis on understanding your commercial strategies and tailoring our services accordingly. We act for a wide variety of commercial clients including businesses, individuals, house builders and developers, pension funds, retailers, restauranteurs, charities, lenders, local authorities and other public sector organisations.

Our Real Estate lawyers practice in areas including:

• Acquisitions and disposals
• Portfolio asset management
• Commercial and residential development
• Real estate finance
• Agricultural property
• Planning
• Construction
• Real estate disputes.

The size of the team and level of experience and expertise that we have, means that we can deploy specialist Real Estate lawyers at all levels, as appropriate. We can also draw on support from the firm’s very strong Corporate, Commercial, Employment and Private Wealth teams.