We provide tailored legal solutions for the Living sector, including developers of build-to-rent sites, later-life living properties, and student accommodation - helping you navigate complex development and investment challenges.
Our Real Estate team delivers integrated advice for investors, developers, and operators across the Living sector. From strategic land acquisition to construction and planning, we ensure your projects are future-proofed and compliant.
Build-to-Rent
Our specialist team provide a high-quality, one-stop legal service for investors, developers, and managers of build-to-rent accommodation in both the private and public sector. From luxury developments to single-family homes, co-living, and affordable housing, our team can support. We advise on strategic land transactions, planning and environment, partnerships and joint ventures, litigation, M&A, construction, and more.
Later-life living
Our later life living specialists combine their residential development and health and social care expertise to address the unique needs of retirement housing, retirement communities, and care homes. We provide a full suite of real estate services and deliver custom solutions, including plot sales, planning and environmental, construction, regulatory, and investment and development.
Student accommodation
We advise developers of student accommodation, universities, and colleges on student housing and campus developments. We offer a one-stop shop for developers, including site acquisition, planning and environment, estate enhancement and rationalisation, and joint ventures and funding.
Advising a leading development and asset management company on the corporate sale of two build-to-rent developments comprising 490 units at Wembley Park
Advising on the design and construction of Camp Hill Gardens, the largest modular BTR residential development in the UK to date
Acting for a private equity-backed care home provider on the property elements of its corporate disposal of c.80 care homes valued at around £750m – including negotiating the property provisions of the SPA, and feeding into other documents as the company was prepared for sale
Investment and Asset Management
We provide real estate commercial investment and asset management legal services that support complex investment strategies across a wide range of assets. Our work focuses on practical, commercially aligned advice that helps you manage risk, maintain strong tenant relationships, and achieve efficient transaction management and execution across your portfolio.
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Construction and Engineering
We work closely with clients as part of their wider teams to help them deliver projects across the construction, engineering and infrastructure sectors. We work collaboratively and provide clients with practical legal and commercial advice to allocate and manage risk and manage operational challenges to allow the successful delivery projects.
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Corporate
Our corporate team delivers comprehensive legal solutions to a diverse clientele. We specialise in M&A, Equity Capital Markets, and corporate advisory matters, collaborating seamlessly to help clients achieve their business goals.
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Education
Our education lawyers support schools, colleges, universities, and government bodies across the UK and internationally. As a leading adviser to the sector, we help you manage risk, seize growth opportunities, and protect your reputation.
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Healthcare Real Estate
We support clients operating across the health and social care real estate sector, helping them navigate complex regulatory, commercial, and operational environments. Our work spans routine estate management to major development and investment activity, ensuring your decisions are informed, compliant, and aligned with long‑term strategic goals.
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Planning & Environment
We provide specialist planning and environmental services across the complete range of contentious and non-contentious planning advice.
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Property Litigation
Our property litigation lawyers advise clients across the real estate sector, helping you manage risk, resolve disputes, and protect the value of your assets. We combine deep technical expertise with commercial insight to support organisations facing complex, high‑value or time‑critical property litigation issues in the UK and internationally.
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The lawyers are proactive, professional and effective at taking the burden of transactions away from the client while keeping the client appropriately informed and involved.
Living
We offer comprehensive legal services for investors, developers, and managers of build-to-rent accommodation.
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Health
We provide a complete real estate service across the health and social care sector, for both public health bodies, NHS Foundation Trusts and private providers as well as to developers, investors and funders – both national and international.
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Industrial and Logistics
We provide a complete real estate service to developers, investors and occupiers on planning/environmental, development, construction and asset management matters and associated commercial agreements.
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Offices
We provide a complete real estate service to developers, investors and occupiers on planning, investment, development, construction and asset management matters.
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Housebuilders
We provide a complete real estate service to leading national housebuilders, specialist developers and housing associations.
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Retail Destinations
Many retail destinations are expected to trade and we are well placed to advise on the buyer or seller side. Retail destinations have been evolving fast, with mixed-use development, repurposed assets and new leasing models reshaping expectations. We help you respond to this change with clear, commercially focused advice that supports your strategy, enhances asset performance, and ensures compliance with emerging standards, including net zero requirements.
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Telecommunications
We support clients across the telecommunications ecosystem, advising on the full range of real estate‑related issues that arise in a complex and heavily regulated market from mobile infrastructure, wayleaves, fibre and data centres – we are across the whole of the connectivity sector.
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We’re a broad-based commercial firm serving a wide range of sectors with a strong heritage in insurance,
health and real estate. We combine excellent legal skills and cutting-edge delivery expertise to design
solutions that fit the needs of our clients – often involving clever uses of technology.
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