About

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

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Real Estate - West Midlands
3
Band 3
What the Team is Known For

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

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  • Shakespeare Martineau acted for L&Q Estates on the acquisition of land at St Neots.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Deborah Irwin
3
Deborah Irwin
3
Band 3

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

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Real Estate

Deborah Irwin
3
Deborah Irwin
3
Band 3

Members

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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