Real estate development

As tax laws change and new regulations are introduced, the complexity of development and regeneration projects only increases. Our real estate development team can assist you when navigating the complex development landscape, whether that’s through assisting with initial land acquisition, providing support for grant applications or disposals and exit agreements.

We advise on all aspects of real estate development, handling legal requirements from start to finish for any project.

What do our real estate development team do?

Acting on a wide range of industrial, retail, leisure, office and mixed use development projects, we work for both national and regional commercial developers. The real estate development projects we undertake are often complex by nature and may span several years.

We handle a wide range of real estate development projects including:

• initial land options
• site acquisitions
• overage obligations
• pre-lettings and lettings to occupiers
• development and forward funding agreements
• support with grant applications
• negotiation of planning and other infrastructure agreements
• disposal and exit agreements.

We work closely with each client and their other key advisors throughout the lifecycle of a project, often acting as an integral part of their team. Our commercial developer clients rely on us to provide strategic guidance, rather than simply documenting transactions, and often ask us to attend board-level and other steering meetings alongside them.

At every stage of a project, we have the skills that our clients need. We are able to bring in complementary specialists, as required, to advise on areas such as planning, construction, banking, tax, corporate, commercial and employment. And beyond our other legal teams, our team at Gateley Capitus can advise on incentives associated with commercial developments, whereas our Gateley Hamer team offer specialist surveying advice on compulsory purchase orders and utilities compensation.

Who are our real estate development clients?

Our real estate development team advises national and regional commercial developers on a variety of industrial, retail, leisure, office and mixed use development projects. The varying nature of work we do for clients provides us with high quality insight into every stage of the development and regeneration process.