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    Real Estate Development Legal Services

The real estate development market is changing.

As one of the largest, market-leading commercial and mixed-use development practices in the UK, we are uniquely positioned to cater to the ever-changing real estate development industry.

Our real estate development lawyers provide practical, timely and innovative advice tailored to your needs. The size of our group enables our people to develop specialist knowledge and expertise in specific areas, rather than being generalists. We are one of the very few firms able to cope with the different requirements and skills required for both large corporate institutions and international and UK based high-net-worth individuals/families and family offices. We are present and maintain strong networks in all the key global wealth hubs and we are proud to provide practical, timely and innovative advice tailored to your needs.

Whether you are a major or niche developer, a landowner (both public and private sector), an investor or a funder, we will work with you to reduce risk, find opportunities and achieve your business goals.

Our real estate development legal expertise includes:

  • site acquisition and complex land assembly, including through compulsory purchase
  • development agreements of all types, including pre-lettings, options, forward funding agreements, joint venture, partnership and land promotion arrangements
  • all aspects of planning, from strategic advice on applications, section 106 and infrastructure agreements, project management of appeals and court challenges
  • construction services, including procurement
  • letting, funding and eventual sale

We can support you across a range of sectors, including:

If you’d like more information on our team please do contact us, or click here to read more about our real estate team.

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Building Up

Helping you optimise the potential of your development site.

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Our real estate development services

Logistics & Supply Chain Legal Services

Logistics & Supply Chains

We understand the various issues that may affect you and will work alongside you through the full logistics and supply chain life cycle. 

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Modern Methods of Construction Legal Services

Modern Methods of Construction

We can support you with any aspect of Regeneration, with a large practice and clients and connections across the construction industry. 

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Life Sciences Real Estate Legal Services

Life Sciences Real Estate

Our Life Sciences Real Estate team will work alongside your business to help you assess both the opportunities and the risks you may face. 

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Regeneration & Housebuilders Legal Services

Regeneration & Housebuilders

Our dedicated team of regeneration lawyers is drawn from the core legal disciplines of construction, real estate, planning and corporate.

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Strategic Land Legal Services

Strategic Land

Our strategic land team offers a one-stop service to landowners, helping you plan for and realise maximum value.

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Development Sales Legal Services

Development Sales

We support your projects from start to finish by working alongside our development acquisition, planning and construction teams.

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Meet our real estate development lawyers

Real Estate Retail Repurposing

We deliver legal solutions in an increasingly complex and dynamic market to help our clients achieve their goals.

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The team at Charles Russell Speechlys provide a consistently high level of service to Bellway. Having worked closely with us for a number of years they understand our businesses strategic goals, and provide tailored legal and commercial business advice. They are committed to running their firm responsibly and provide commercially savvy legal advice.”

Simon Scougall, Group General Counsel and Company Secretary, Bellway Plc
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Our thinking

  • Ingrid Saffin writes for React News on mixed-use developments

    Ingrid Saffin

    In the Press

  • Property Week, EG and Costar quote Richard Flenley on the recent Supreme Court ruling on HS2 compulsory purchases

    Richard Flenley

    In the Press

  • Property Week quotes Ingrid Saffin on John Lewis Partnership (JLP)’s entry into the build-to-rent (BTR) market

    Ingrid Saffin

    In the Press

  • Cara Imbrailo writes for Environmental Finance on the growing importance of social issues for commercial real estate

    Cara Imbrailo

    In the Press

  • Emma Preece writes for Property Week on the recent Hudson v Hathway Court of Appeal decision

    Emma Preece

    In the Press

  • Louise Ward writes for Property Week on ESG challenges in life sciences real estate

    Louise Ward

    In the Press

  • The Law Society Gazette quotes Cara Imbrailo on ESG considerations for the property sector

    Cara Imbrailo

    In the Press

  • Time to hang up the net curtains? Visual Intrusion CAN constitute a private nuisance

    Samuel Lear

    Quick Reads

  • Property Week quotes Claire Fallows on the regeneration of brownfield sites in England

    Claire Fallows

    In the Press

  • Claire Fallows writes for PBC Today on the UK housing crisis

    Claire Fallows

    In the Press

  • Property Week quotes Claire Fallows on the watering down of housing targets

    Claire Fallows

    In the Press

  • The Law Society Gazette quotes Robin Grove on the UK commercial property market

    Robin Grove MIoL

    In the Press

  • Paula Boast is interviewed by Construction Week on Bahrain's construction industry and how it is moving towards more functional and responsible building

    Paula Boast MBE

    In the Press

  • South China Morning Post quotes Simon Green on Hong Kong investment into UK property

    Simon Green

    In the Press

  • Property Week quote Michael O’Connor and Carolyn Davies on what extended retrospective liability for defects under the Building Safety Act means for developers

    Michael O'Connor

    In the Press

  • London’s role in the growing UK Life Sciences sector

    Cara Imbrailo

    Insights

  • Louise Ward comments for EG on potential planning reforms for the life sciences industry

    Louise Ward

    In the Press

  • Simon Green and Reem Al Mahroos write for Real Estate Asia on the trend of 'revenge tourism'

    Simon Green

    In the Press

  • Emma Humphreys and Paul McCarthy write for Property Week on the new landlord digital ID checks

    Emma Humphreys

    In the Press

  • Carolyn Davies and Oliver Park write for Property Week on the key property points in the Building Safety Act

    Oliver Park

    In the Press

  • Carolyn Davies writes for Construction News on stakeholders new duties under the Building Safety Act

    In the Press

  • New permitted development right to convert unused commercial premises into homes to come into force

    Lydia O'Hagan

    Quick Reads

  • New tax for UK Residential Developers

    Helen Coward

    Quick Reads

  • Council refuses permission for a high rise residential development in Woking

    Lydia O'Hagan

    Quick Reads

  • Help to Buy scheme extended - What this means for home builders and new home buyers.

    David McClenaghan

    Quick Reads

  • Consultation on Transparency in the Control of Potential Development Land – Time for Developers, Promoters, Owners, Agents and Lawyers to Respond.

    Quick Reads

  • Demand for homebuilding continues to rise as our development sales team expands.

    Suzi Gatward

    Quick Reads

  • Retail repurposing - is 2020 the year of opportunity for mixed use developers?

    Quick Reads

  • An easier road to diversion of public footpaths?

    Anna Donnelly

    Quick Reads

  • Is bigger better?

    Quick Reads

  • Students no longer alternative

    Ingrid Saffin

    Quick Reads

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