Commercial Property
Our Commercial Property Department deals with all types of commercial property, including hotels, office blocks, retail shops, restaurants, public houses, pharmacies, doctors’ surgeries, dentists’ surgeries, and farmland.
We offer cost-effective expertise and services in the following areas.
The Acquisition and Development of Commercial Property
Sellers, buyers and developers of commercial property are often involved in making instant decisions. If the available opportunities are missed, the downside is ignored or the documentation is incomplete, the loss can be significant, even catastrophic.
The objectives of obtaining professional advice are to strike the correct balance in a number of ways. First, your advisers may need to address the conflicting interests of the parties involved. Second, they may need to negotiate your rights and obligations. Third, they will need to draft documents in a way which enables you to avoid expensive disputes in the future.
Our team will advise on:
The Acquisition and Disposal of Investment Property
Investment property and finance transactions are fraught with danger. Do other people have rights over the property? Can they be found? If you are a tenant, will you be affected if your landlord changes? Are conditions of finance too burdensome?
We advise clients proposing to purchase or mortgage investment property on:
Is any of this negotiable? In a word, yes.
Care Homes
Our care home clients benefit from our extensive knowledge of regulatory practice in relation to care home transactions and from our commercial acumen in respect of occupancy, fee income streams, planning, and transactional warranties and indemnities.
Our care home team is able to advise on:
Commercial Leases
We act for landlords and tenants in the grant and taking of commercial leases. These will be leases of, for instance, shops, offices, restaurants, pubs, warehouses, hotels and other commercial spaces.
We advise on all aspects of commercial leases, including:
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