Housing Property & Development Law & Lawyers

Property Development Law

The term ‘property development’ covers a wide range of activities from buying existing properties and giving them a makeover to buying land and obtaining planning consent for the construction of a whole housing estate or business development.

Whatever form of development you undertake you need a specialist lawyer who knows what to look for to ensure that your project is successful. From establishing that you have the necessary rights to connect an electricity supply to ensuring your neighbour doesn’t have the right to stop you building on your land, the property development lawyer needs to think like a developer to predict where problems might arise.

By completing your free legal enquiry form, we will endeavour to put you in contact with a lawyer practising in the area of property development law so that you can receive ‘hands on’ advice from a lawyer who may visit your site to discover potentially critical legal issues. The advice that you receive may ensure that legal issues do not crop up during the project that affect your ability to deliver the finished product on time and on budget.

If you would like legal help from a lawyer practising in the area of housing, property and development law, then please complete your free legal enquiry form on the right, or click here.

Broadly speaking property development lawyers provide advice on:

• Buying development land
• Planning consent
• Property and development law

Residential property developments

The laws affecting house builders are constantly becoming more complex. Legal issues constrain residential property developers throughout the whole cycle, from when you first purchase land to when you sell finished units.

Property lawyers can help you with:

• Assessing and acquiring sensitive sites
• Options and conditional contracts
• Infrastructure
• Drafting contractual agreements
• Site assembly and plot sales
• Planning
• Environmental Issues
• Management companies
• Dealing with local council
• Advising you with respect to development control plans
• Advising you with respect to lending environment plans

Developing new housing estates can be a very complex business and developers should be sure to obtain specialist legal advice before buying and building upon the land to avoid any unwelcome surprises during the development.

Lawyers practising in the area of property development law generally have an abundance of experience in property development issues and all the specialist knowledge you will need to ensure that your project goes ahead without a hitch; from pre-planning to post-completion property development lawyers have the skills to see your development through. Lawyers practising in the area of property development law generally can have strong links with many professionals in the local building and development trade and they understand the practical needs of their developer clients allowing them to combine business expediency with proper legal protection.

Lawyers practising in the area of property development law can also help with:

• Purchase and sale of sites
• Long term Options and Conditional Contracts
• Strategic Land purchases
• Planning permissions
• Highways and infrastructure agreements
• Title issues
• Searches and enquiries
• Registration of your property
• Construction documentation and warranties
• Plot sales including the setting up of Management Companies for leasehold developments
• Sales to Housing Associations
• stamp duty and land tax solutions
• property related GST advice
• planning - including Agreements and negotiations with Council and planning departments

Lawyers practising in the area of property development law provide legal advice and services for residential property developments of all sizes, from single houses to entire housing estates. Lawyers practising in the area of property development law have experience in residential property development law.

If you would like legal help from a lawyer practising in the area of housing, property and development law, then please complete your free legal enquiry form on the right, or click here.

Apart from that mentioned above, Lawyers practising in the area of property development law can help you with:

Site acquisition

Lawyers practising in the area of property development law can assist with the acquisition of development sites and negotiate land purchase agreements, including contracts conditional on planning permission, options and participation agreements.

Land disposal and sales

Lawyers practising in the area of property development law can act on behalf of landowners selling land with and without planning permission and can assist in the negotiations between developers and landowners. Lawyers practising in the area of property development law are able to create the agreements and contracts needed when disposing of land.

Planning

Lawyers practising in the area of property development law can provide advice on the planning process including planning agreements and applications. Should an application be unsuccessful then we can assist with the appeal and any inquiry hearings.

sales and letting

Whether you sell finished plots or a flat development then Lawyers practising in the area of property development law can set up the necessary paperwork, schemes and even management companies or residents associations if needed.

Environmental issues

Lawyers practising in the area of property development law know the environmental issues that can affect a development and can advise accordingly. Lawyers practising in the area of property development law can often help clients with matters such as contaminated land, the Health & Safety law, and environmental law and legislation.

Employment

Lawyers can provide advice on all aspects of employment law and provide the necessary contracts that you need when taking contractors and sub-contractors on site.

Land and Property Development Disputes

Should a dispute arise before, during or after the development then lawyers practising in the area of property development law will be able to mediate and will try to settle it quickly, before any harm is caused.

Property Development

Lawyers practising in the area of property development law can advise property developers across a complete range of transactions including:

• Acquisitions
• Planning (we have our own in-house planning team)
• Infrastructure and ancillary agreements
• Joint venture loan agreements and collaboration agreements
• Funding and mezzanine funding arrangements
• Disposals
• Large volume land sales

If you would like legal help from a lawyer practising in the area of housing, property and development law, then please complete your free legal enquiry form on the right, or click here.

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