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Property Development Solicitors
Experts at dealing with land acquisition and development agreements for residential, commercial or joint venture arrangements
Achieve your property development goals with help from our team of experienced commercial property solicitors. We’ll help you navigate any issues and reduce risk throughout the process, from land acquisition and development agreements to highway and drainage adoption and finally the onward sale or leasing of the property.
Property Development Solicitors
Guiding you through the commercial property development process
Our commercial property solicitors understand the problems you may face when it comes to acquiring land for development. We’ll provide you with all the necessary legal documents and advice you need to guarantee a seamless transaction every time, explaining the process to you every step of the way.
You can rely on us to understand the details of the transaction, and advise on the commitments and potential risks of your commercial property agreements/arrangements, providing swift, pragmatic, sensible and business focused advice.
Heads of terms
negotiations and due diligence
Land acquisitions or sales
Development agreements
Construction contracts
Corporate structures
for the project such as development vehicles, partnerships or joint ventures
Resolving any disputes
Disposals
enabling the onward sale or lease
Planning consent
Project finance
Who we help
Property development projects
Whether you’re a land owner, property developer or investor, our approach will always start with understanding your commercial objectives.
Drawing on many years of experience, our commercial property solicitors know all the relevant questions required to best enable site development/onward sales/leasing. From there we can map any potential pain points in a project and provide strategic advice and pragmatic solutions.
Meet our team
Why choose our Property Development Solicitors?
Each member of our commercial property team comes with many years of experience in dealing with development projects, making sure that these transactions go smoothly for you.
Our solicitors have been recruited from UK top 100 law firms, or from large international businesses. Coupled with our innovative pricing models and remote-operating model, we’re uniquely placed to provide the quality of commercial property legal advice you’d usually find at a City firm but for a fraction of the cost.
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Insights from our team
A full service law firm
Experts in commercial property law
In addition to property development, our team can assist you across all areas of commercial property, including:
Testimonials
What our clients say
Friendly, helpful and efficient. Thank you!
Beverly Clough
Group HR Director,
The Guild of Property Professionals
10/10, very happy with the service and the relationship … comments from Sam are presented in a way that is easy to understand – rather than being blinded by legal jargon! Very approachable, pragmatic and efficient, especially as we had to do substantial chasing on the recent legal engagement
Karen Page
Office Manager,
DenseAir
Our solicitor’s assistance in the structuring of a new lending facility was greatly appreciated given the short deadline to completion. The team at Harper James responded promptly to get the deal over the line within our borrower’s timescale.
Leon Foxwell
Lending Manager,
Assured Property Finance
Harper James Solicitors provides excellent value for money and helps to cover gaps in specialist areas of legal practice. Using an outside legal provider enables us, as a business, to better manage our internal resources, the volume of work we have and to deal with our level of overall risk. I would undoubtedly recommend them to others.
Robert Cowling
General Counsel,
FleetCor
I really value Sam’s pragmatic approach to getting things done but also the lack of ‘dryness’ when getting information across to help me make decisions. I’m completely happy with the service and have already recommended Harper James to others!
Abby Edwards
Team Lead,
RLP Resourcing
Extremely helpful, very communicative and got the job done promptly. We were under time pressure, and on a tight budget - HJ dealt with both perfectly.
Andrew Slater
MD,
Kin Partners Ltd
Friendly, helpful and efficient. Thank you!
Beverly Clough
Group HR Director,
The Guild of Property Professionals
10/10, very happy with the service and the relationship … comments from Sam are presented in a way that is easy to understand – rather than being blinded by legal jargon! Very approachable, pragmatic and efficient, especially as we had to do substantial chasing on the recent legal engagement
Karen Page
Office Manager,
DenseAir
Our solicitor’s assistance in the structuring of a new lending facility was greatly appreciated given the short deadline to completion. The team at Harper James responded promptly to get the deal over the line within our borrower’s timescale.
Leon Foxwell
Lending Manager,
Assured Property Finance
Harper James Solicitors provides excellent value for money and helps to cover gaps in specialist areas of legal practice. Using an outside legal provider enables us, as a business, to better manage our internal resources, the volume of work we have and to deal with our level of overall risk. I would undoubtedly recommend them to others.
Robert Cowling
General Counsel,
FleetCor
I really value Sam’s pragmatic approach to getting things done but also the lack of ‘dryness’ when getting information across to help me make decisions. I’m completely happy with the service and have already recommended Harper James to others!
Abby Edwards
Team Lead,
RLP Resourcing
Extremely helpful, very communicative and got the job done promptly. We were under time pressure, and on a tight budget - HJ dealt with both perfectly.
Andrew Slater
MD,
Kin Partners Ltd
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