Our highly experienced Housebuilding team provides efficient and effective legal advice to support house builders across the private and public sectors.

Our expert Housebuilding team deals with all aspects of residential development work for house builders across the private and public sectors. This includes site acquisitions, sales of individual plots and entire sites, collaboration agreements, development agreements, longer term option agreements and promotion agreements and site assembly.  

We offer a full service to our clients with an ability to draw upon experts from across Morton Fraser MacRoberts on issues around planning, health and safety, construction, commercial contracts, employment issues and (where required) disputes which may arise. 

Specialist legal expertise for housebuilders large and small

Our team has longstanding relationships with some of the best-known housebuilders in the UK, as well as smaller housebuilders and developers, and landowners (including farmers, golf clubs and insolvency practitioners) who wish to sell land for residential development and require expert advice. 

Our dedicated plot sales team sells more than 2,000 new homes on behalf of our clients every year. 

We offer clients clear and practical advice, so that deals complete quickly and efficiently, while ensuring that our clients are fully protected.  

We also assist clients with: 

  • Acquisition of residential development sites 

  • Option Agreements  

  • Promotion Agreements 

  • Corporate Joint Venture Advice 

  • Development Agreements  

  • Environmental  

  • Forward Funding  

  • Legal Due Diligence  

  • Planning  

  • Property & Property Finance  

  • Real Estate Litigation  

  • Sales & Acquisitions  

  • Site Assembly  

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