Residential development

Our expert team of residential development lawyers is highly regarded and we act for landowners, developers and house builders across the South East and nationally.

We act for a number of national house builders and provide the whole range of development services to support the aims and objectives of these clients.

We provide specialist expertise in connection with joint venture and partnership arrangements, promotion agreements, the acquisition or disposal of strategic land, equalisation agreements, option and pre-emption and overage arrangements.

Our specialisms include:

• Purchase or sale of land for residential development
• Infrastructure agreements
• Land promotion
• Plot sales/new homes
• Planning.

Our residential development team also works closely with our specialist construction lawyers and our planning team.

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.