Real estate lawyers

Navigating the complexities of real estate requires expert legal guidance.

Whether you’re involved in a sale, purchase, lease, or development project, real estate transactions represent a significant investment. Having the right legal support is crucial to ensuring those real estate investments are protected.

What does a real estate solicitor do?

A real estate solicitor handles the legal aspects of a property transaction. This may include buying, selling, leasing and/or developing a property. They conduct property searches, manage negotiations, ensure contracts are properly drafted and that the title is in good order. Their role is to protect clients’ interests, resolve disputes, and oversee completion ensuring that the transaction proceeds in a smooth and efficient manner.

How we can help

With extensive experience across a range of real estate matters, we offer a wide range of legal services to support you. Our real estate lawyers are here to provide clear, practical advice tailored to your specific needs, helping you manage every aspect of your property journey with confidence. We offer a client focused approach that is built on understanding your goals and delivering results that work for you.

The services we offer include:

Property sales and acquisitions

Our team is here to help you manage the entire transaction process, from reviewing the terms of the sale, drafting contract papers through to completion.

Landlord and tenant

Our landlord and tenant services cover a wide range of legal needs, from negotiating the terms of the lease, drafting, managing disputes and ensuring compliance with relevant laws.

For landlords, we focus on structuring leases to protect property interests, including rent reviews, break clauses, and tenant obligations for maintenance and repairs.

For tenants, we ensure lease terms are fair, negotiable, and align with their operational needs.

Whether representing landlords or tenants, our goal is to secure legally sound agreements that foster stable, productive and ongoing relationships.

Dispute resolution

We offer dispute resolution services to address conflicts between landlords and tenants, developers, local authorities and/or co-owners. Our goal is to achieve a swift and effective outcome that prevents lengthy litigation, using methods such as mediation and arbitration where possible.

Should court proceedings be necessary, our team is prepared to support you and represent your interests fully.

Planning and development

Whether you are a small one-off developer or work on more frequent, larger development projects, we can assist through the whole development process. We can assist in negotiating the Heads of Terms, drafting development agreements (to include option agreements, conditional contracts and promotion agreements), obtaining planning and, where relevant, dealing with plot sales.

Our real estate solicitors offer expert guidance on complex planning applications and permissions (including managing appeals).

We also work closely with investors.

Land management and property investment

Our team provides strategic advice on land management and investment, helping you make informed decisions to optimise returns. We handle matters such as property portfolio structuring, investment financing, assisting in both maximising and safeguarding your property value.

Real estate financing

We advise on funding options, including mortgages, mezzanine financing, development finance and alternative lending, to support property acquisitions and developments.

Rights of way and easements

We assist with negotiating and formalising rights of way and easements essential for development, utility access and land use etc.