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Provided by Shakespeare Martineau
With over 240 members of our real estate team nationwide we lead with expertise in all core areas of real estate.
We act for agents, landowners, and house builders on strategic land promotion, acquisitions, and disposals of land for residential development. This includes urban extensions, regeneration sites, complex multi ownership land assembly, mixed-use development opportunities and affordable housing. We also act for consortiums in the big ticket transactions.
We have particular expertise in strategic land, guiding clients through the process from early site due diligence, identifying development constraints through heads of terms to conditional sale contracts and long-term joint venture, option and promotion agreements for both residential and commercial developments. Our substantial plot sales team on a national basis deals with over 7,000 transactions per annum. Our commercial development team has a breadth of expertise working with a range of clients in the industrial distribution, office, retail, and leisure sectors.
The team deal with all aspects of the lifecycle from cradle to grave, including acquisitions, conditional purchases, forward funding, forward sales, pre-lettings and development management agreements.
We work closely with other teams, such as planning, agriculture, property litigation and construction – being holistic in our approach to pre-empting our clients’ potential needs
Chambers Review
Shakespeare Martineau is an experienced team with strong residential and commercial development credentials. The team is also noted for its expertise in real estate finance and investment matters, and for its representation of major corporate occupiers in connection with the acquisition, disposal and management of property portfolios. The group offers clients the benefit of complementary advice from its planning and construction teams.
Work Highlights
- Shakespeare Martineau acted for L&Q Estates on the acquisition of land at St Neots.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"At Shakespeare Martineau there is a range of people with different experiences to suit the work which needs to be completed."
"They're always very pragmatic and commercially aware."
"They're always accessible and extremely quick to both respond and turn documents around."
"At Shakespeare Martineau there is a range of people with different experiences to suit the work which needs to be completed."
"They're always very pragmatic and commercially aware."
"They're always accessible and extremely quick to both respond and turn documents around."
Notable Practitioners
Deborah Irwin focuses her practice on handling residential development work. She regularly advises house builders and land promoters on complex site acquisitions, development agreements and funding arrangements, among other matters.
"Deborah Irwin is my lawyer of choice; she's very good."
"She's a very enthusiastic real estate lawyer."
Ranked Lawyers at
Shakespeare Martineau
West Midlands
Members
Provided by Shakespeare Martineau
Adrian Bland
Andrew Mellor
Barry Fisher
Caroline Irvin
Clive Reed
David Jones
Debbie Irwin
Donna Barnes
Jack Kelly
James Gooch
Jenny Walker
Joanna Deffley
Kevin Joynes
Lucy Haynes
Mark Jones
Neil Gosling
Simon Hayden
Vicki Simpson