Richard Hartis

Richard specialises in real estate and has a particular specialism in health sector work.

He has over 12 years’ experience advising clients across a range of sectors including health, local government, education and retail. His key clients include NHS Trusts (including the majority of the NHS Trusts in the North East and Yorkshire), Clinical Commissioning Groups, Universities, Local Authorities and Retail Investment Funds.

Richard’s areas of expertise include advising on the acquisition and disposal of sites for both development and non-development (both freehold and leasehold) and all forms of landlord and tenant work (including negotiation of leases and other occupational arrangements).

Relevant experience includes advising:

• A major North East NHS Foundation Trust on a multi-million pound sale of a redundant hospital site with complex overage provisions following future development.
• A Lincolnshire based NHS Trust on the multi-million pound conditional sale of surplus land for both retail and residential development.
• A Yorkshire based Clinical Commissioning Group on the relocation of its main office headquarters and the providing of strategic property advice in relation to the contents and implications of a proposed lease for one of its GP providers.
• A local building society on the redevelopment of city centre premises including the conditional grant of occupational leases to third parties following receipt of planning and completion of building reconfiguration works.
• A Local Authority on a number of high profile school academy conversions, which included freehold disposals, granting of long leasehold interests and the putting in place of lease back structures (to protect various PFI arrangements).
• A local University on a joint venture student accommodation development scheme (including the grant of occupational tenancies) and also on their day to day estate management (with particular focus on the granting of leases and licences to third party occupiers).
• A retail investment fund owner of prominent shopping centres on its various unit lettings to commercial occupiers.