Real Estate Expertise

Brian acts for residential developers all day, every day. This includes plc housebuilders, SMEs and smaller developers. He specialises in all aspects of residential development work, including site acquisitions and sales (including overage and clawback agreements), collaboration agreements, development agreements and site assembly. He also has considerable experience with strategic land acquisitions and sales, regularly dealing with option agreements and promotion agreements. 

He is involved in residential development sites of all sizes- from sites with planning permission for more than 3,000 dwellinghouses to sites with less than 10 houses or flats.

He also acts for a number of landowners both large and small (including estates, farmers, insolvency practitioners and golf clubs) who own areas that are developable for residential development or have prospects to be developed in the future.

Public Sector Expertise

He also acts for providers of Affordable Housing (including registered social landlords) in relation to the acquisition and development (and redevelopment/regeneration) of residential development sites for affordable/social housing and also in respect of the acquisition and sale of existing houses to be used for rent (including mid-market rent).