Clare Naylor

Clare specialises in Real Estate finance and investment but has considerable experience in all areas of commercial property including residential development and landlord & tenant work.

Clare acts for numerous banks, senior and mezzanine lenders and specialist property lending funds in respect of secured lending transactions, with a focus on residential development finance.

Clare acts for both national and local house-builders and has gained significant experience in relation to site assembly and strategic land acquisition. She also acts for corporate investors and occupiers and landlords and tenants on both retail and office portfolios

Recent experience includes:

• Advising a local council in relation to the making by the council of a loan to an SPV involving the taking of security over more than 300 leasehold and freehold properties in several London Boroughs over a number of phases.
• Advising Blackpool Council in relation to the acquisition of Hounds Hill Shopping Centre.