General Commercial Property
We have one of the largest commercial property teams outside London with the resource and experience to handle every size and type of transaction in a variety of industry sectors.
Our wide-ranging client base includes:
- Regional and national developers and housebuilders.
- Pension funds and their managers.
- Local authorities.
- Universities and further education colleges.
- Housing associations.
- Lending institutions.
- Property investors.
- Private landowners.
- Retailers.
- Industry of all kinds.
- National and multinational company operators.
We undertake almost all kinds of property work including:
- Acquisition and disposal of freehold and leasehold commercial property.
- Commercial development, financing, forward sales and pre-lettings.
- Negotiating leases and renewals – for landlords and tenants and on individual lettings and portfolios.
- Schedules of dilapidations and enforcement and estate management.
- Raising finance or refinancing for property owners.
- Dealing with property based lending for banks and other lending institutions.
- Site acquisitions and assembly and residential development and unit sales for national housebuilders.
- Inward investment.
- Relocations.
- Sale and lease backs.
We take great pride in giving clear and pragmatic advice promptly to our property clients – who come to us for that very purpose.
We believe that the fact that our commercial property lawyers can work alongside Freeth Cartwright’s dedicated planning and construction teams – each of which has a national profile and practice – sets us apart from most other firms of solicitors and gives ourselves and our clients an enormous advantage.
Key contacts
Mike Taplin, Partner
Richard Osborn, Partner
Nigel Haynes, Partner
Richard Beverley, Partner
John May, Partner