Residential and Housing

The business of creating, managing and dealing with the places where people make their homes is both highly complex and vitally important - you simply can’t afford to make mistakes.

Drawing insights from our impressive market sector knowledge and extensive network of clients, our lawyers will provide you with the practical advice you need to navigate the challenges and opportunities that define the sector.

Our client work covers housebuilding, Build to Rent (BTR), Affordable Housing, the Private Rented Sector (PRS), Purpose-Built Student Accommodation (PBSA), Later Living, Co-Living, and Local Authority Housing and Regeneration – so you're covered across the whole spectrum of residential and housing.

Supporting some of the most significant developers, investors, ,funders and public sector bodies across Residential and Housing, our team is well-versed in the intricacies of the Living sector and has a client list that’s testament to our unrivalled depth of knowledge and many years of hands-on experience. 

Our outstanding lawyers and specialists recognise that every client has unique and distinctive goals, which is why the service we provide is completely bespoke.

Spanning the key areas affecting the market, areas of specialism within the team include immediate site acquisition;  strategic land and collaboration agreements; forward funding and forward commitment arrangements for large scale housing delivery; planning applications and agreements; construction (both appointments/building contracts and contentious construction matters); environmental issues; Building Safety Act; remediation contracts and, of course, the wider range of often complex legal issues surrounding efforts to tackle the UK’s housing shortage.

Perhaps, like some of our existing clients, you build traditional homes, meet the growing need for social and affordable housing, design build-to-rent projects, or develop innovative modular solutions for brownfield sites. Whatever your requirements, as our client, you can rest assured that we’ll find the right team of experts to support you whenever you need us.

What’s more, our clients benefit from access to expertise and insights from our colleagues in the US, bolstering our highly commercial advice on UK Living, particularly for those with foreign capital seeking to enter the UK market.

It’s an exciting time to be part of this rapidly evolving sector, and we’re in it for the long haul – so if you need support with some of the longer term challenges of the industry; debt funding, the energy transition and decarbonisation, or navigating the increasing prominence of digitalisation and data management, we’re here to help with that as well.