At Morton Fraser Lawyers we have highlighted clarity as our guiding principle.
This directs the way we communicate, the way we advise, the way we conduct relationships with our clients and the way we are totally transparent and upfront about our charges. This applies to all our services from the straightforward to the more complex.
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A clear future together.
We have an impressive track record in this sector. Our expertise covers property, construction, planning, banking, tax and environmental. We act for operators, investors and funders as well as contractors and other professionals.
Jonathan is a partner and head of our Commercial Real Estate sector.
We have a deep understanding of the unique commercial drivers. These include the importance of higher education within Scotland, its attractiveness to foreign students, ease of movement into the country, recently introduced rent controls, the demand for managed beds within the Scottish market and the maturity of the market. Our technical expertise is a given, something which extends to new legislation governing leases in Scotland.
Our current portfolio covers all major university towns and cities within Scotland including Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, St Andrews, Dundee and Stirling. It includes investment acquisitions, forward funding, site purchases and more traditional lending. Our core team of 16 student accommodation experts handles deals of all sizes and complexity and enjoys access to our wider real estate, planning, construction, banking and environmental teams.
In recent years the Scottish commercial real estate market has seen many changes. Deals are structured differently and access to funding has changed. Our clients expect us to understand their markets and to offer pragmatic, commercial advice and guidance. We’re also expected to deliver this within tight timeframes and within pre-agreed, fixed fee structures.
We’re specialists with genuine expert knowledge, here to offer valuable advice. Since 2005 we’ve grown to become one of Scotland's leading players, recognised by independent legal directories Legal 500 and Chambers. The head of our student accommodation team, Jonathan Seddon, is also recognised individually.
Our advice is clear and easy to follow. We offer transparent billing, agreeing a fixed fee with our clients, so that they can be reassured that they’ll only pay what they have agreed to pay.
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Morton Fraser provides a ‘first class level of service’ and attracts praise for its ‘fantastic market knowledge’.
Experience, attention to detail and good lawyers who are technically strong with commercial understanding.
'Our business has worked with Morton Fraser for many years at a corporate level and they have handled our Scottish property work for 20 years. You get prompt, accurate and commercial advice and they are a pleasure to work with. They are keen to explore new ideas and find solutions. On the rare occasion that there has been an issue, it has been dealt with extremely professionally'.
'Commercial and professional'.
