We advise both developers and landowners on a diversity of arrangements and issues arising from prospective development. Our long experience working with a wide range of clients enables us to understand both the needs of the developer and the landowner, and this makes our skills and expertise unique in our ability to deal with all areas of property development.

We regularly provide practical and strategic advice on acquisitions and disposals of both freehold and leasehold, commercial, residential or mixed-use developments including:

• all forms of options and conditional contracts;
• overage/clawback provisions;
• leasehold development agreements;
• rectification of title deficiencies;
• site assembly;
• disposals through pre-let arrangements;
• consortium agreements; and
• infrastructure agreements.

Our ability to offer linked construction, litigation and planning advice allows us to provide a complete professional service to our developer and landowner clients. We pride ourselves on our ability to provide practical and commercial advice in this highly complex area.

Specialist surveyors, planners, accountants and lenders work with us to achieve outstanding results for our client. Our strong network of professional contacts allows us to point clients in the appropriate direction when other advice is required, for example, land valuation.

We also run workshops and seminars for surveyors and other property professionals to increase their understanding some of the many complexities of this area of the law.

We offer a professional "plot sales" service to our clients who are residential developers.

Highlights

• Acting for a commercial developer on the acquisition of a 10 acre business park for redevelopment;
• Instructed by a residential developer in respect of a £9m residential development acquisition and forward sale;
• Advising a residential developer on the purchase of a 17 acre mixed use site in Hampshire;
• Advising the major private landowner in partnership with a developer and the Local Authority in connection with arrangements for the proposed future Southern Development Area of Swindon
• Providing legal services relating to planning and infrastructure arrangements, provision of community facilities and schools on the Swindon Northern Expansion area where more than 10,000 houses and other works to accommodate the needs of residents are being provided