Hamlins has the skills to help you with your real estate development project.

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Our advice includes:

  • Purchasing the site
  • Obtaining vacant possession
  • Obtaining planning permission
  • Negotiating planning agreements
  • Varying restrictive covenants
  • Stopping up highways
  • Releasing rights of light
  • Negotiating development rights
  • Drafting construction contracts
  • Appointing professionals
  • Documenting the construction finance
  • Letting the development
  • Releasing the profit on the sale of the completed development

We also offer cross-firm expertise in incorporating special purpose development vehicles, negotiating joint venture agreements, development management agreements, side by side arrangements, participation contracts and promote agreements.

Hamlins has a long history of Real Estate Development with previous flagship developments including Embankment Place, Chesham House, Regent Arcade House and 264-267 Tottenham Court Road, the development of hotels at Tower Hill and the Iron Mountain Repository, and development management agreements for Paternoster Square London EC4, Bevis Marks London EC3, The Strand London WC2, Riverbank House London EC4, and King William Street London EC4.

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Hamlins has the skills to help you with your real estate development project.

Find out more

Our advice includes:

  • Purchasing the site
  • Obtaining vacant possession
  • Obtaining planning permission
  • Negotiating planning agreements
  • Varying restrictive covenants
  • Stopping up highways
  • Releasing rights of light
  • Negotiating development rights
  • Drafting construction contracts
  • Appointing professionals
  • Documenting the construction finance
  • Letting the development
  • Releasing the profit on the sale of the completed development

We also offer cross-firm expertise in incorporating special purpose development vehicles, negotiating joint venture agreements, development management agreements, side by side arrangements, participation contracts and promote agreements.

Hamlins has a long history of Real Estate Development with previous flagship developments including Embankment Place, Chesham House, Regent Arcade House and 264-267 Tottenham Court Road, the development of hotels at Tower Hill and the Iron Mountain Repository, and development management agreements for Paternoster Square London EC4, Bevis Marks London EC3, The Strand London WC2, Riverbank House London EC4, and King William Street London EC4.

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Private: Hamlins Property Network

The Hamlins Property Network (HPN) is an informal body comprised of clients of the firm and fellow property sector professionals. We hold regular events to facilitate networking with likeminded people and to offer you the opportunity to hear interesting, thought …

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Recommendations

‘They’re very approachable, flexible and hard-working, with good expertise in their subject,’ says a client, adding: ‘They take the burden off of us and they do it seamlessly.’

Chambers and Partners 2021 - Real Estate

‘All the partners are very approachable and commercial in their approach. They are always available to give clear, straightforward advice and have a very good grasp of the needs and priorities of the business. The quality of work at all levels is excellent and compared with other firms is exceptional.’

Legal 500 2021 Testimonial - Commercial Property

‘Extremely well-regarded real estate practice that punches comfortably above its weight with an enviable roster of clients that larger firms would kill for. They display genuine ownership of their clients’ issues.’

Legal 500 2021 Testimonial - Commercial Property

A client praises the ‘terrific firm’ and says of the property team: ‘They are efficient, fun to work with and understand their subject like nobody else I’ve met.’

Chambers and Partners 2020 - Real Estate

‘The Hamlins team are very client focused. They take the time to understand the needs of the client and in many instances go above and beyond what is expected of a law firm.’

Legal 500 2020 Testimonial - Commercial Property

‘They are our preferred law firm because they are always available and happy to assist with any type of query. They will go above and beyond for us.’

Chambers 2018 - Real Estate

‘The team is very helpful and well informed, with their diligence and commercial advice being particular strengths.’

Chambers 2018 - Real Estate

Hamlins LLP’s ‘focused, efficient and professional’ team specialises in investment work for a range of professional property companies, sovereign wealth funds, private equity investors, banks and high-net-worth individuals.

Legal 500 2017 - Real Estate

Our Experience

    • Acting for a Sovereign Wealth Fund on the development of a Central London property
    • Advising Casa Bella Developments on the purchase of three development sites in London
    • Acting as lead solicitors for a client on their property matters inluding a building contract and ancillary documentation for a new residential led scheme of offices, retail and 68 apartments in Stamford Hill, London. We have also granted a lease of an office building to the government at a rent of £285,000 per annum and advised on a £7m purchase of shopping parade in North London.
    • Acted for NCP for over 35 years on all their property requirements including leases of trading sites, sales/purchases of investments and the redevelopment of major city centre sites, including all related property litigation and construction work.
    • Acting for Peaceline Limited on projects including the acquisition of a mixed use site in Edgware for £13m, re-gearing of commercial leases and the sale of car parking land
    • Acted for Reef Estates on site acquisition, construction documentation, pre-let, forward sale of a development site and the £18m forward funding agreement. The development included the development of 17 prestigious flats and we have advised on the construction aspects and on the onward sale.
    • India Building, Liverpool
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