Property Services
As part of our wider Housing and Regeneration Group, our Property team provide a wide range of legal services in connection to Development & Regeneration Projects, Home Ownership & Asset Management and Commercial Leases.
More about Development, Regeneration and Home Ownership
Our Housing & Regeneration Property team provides the full range of property legal transactional and advice services to a large client base of Registered Providers and Local Housing Authorities across the country, supporting with the procurement, development and construction of new build homes, asset management, home ownership and both residential and commercial leasehold services.
We work collaboratively with our litigation, construction, planning, governance and procurement colleagues across Forbes Housing Group to mitigate risk throughout and deliver a seamless service to all Registered Providers of Housing and Local Authorities. We also work closely with clients’ in-house teams and third-party advisers to meet their requirements.
Development & Regeneration Projects
Our long-standing relationships with many clients gives us trusted advisor status. They approach us at the outset of a proposed development where we provide strategic advice to assist in exploring possible structures for development acquisitions. Preparation is key to any transaction, allowing a development manager to set parameters for negotiations with third parties including landowners.
The team have many years’ experience in development and regeneration projects for a wide range of public sector and quasi-public sector clients. Our service covers all aspects of site assembly, acquisition, development, procurement, construction and join venture arrangements including grant funding and related ancillary planning elements.
Our expertise and experience include, but are not limited to:
Site assembly
Site acquisitions and disposals
Development agreements for residential, mixed use and supported housing projects
Joint ventures including public, private partnerships
Compulsory purchase
Grant funding
Overage deeds
Estate rationalisation advice
s106 agreements, variations and advice
Infrastructure agreements
Utility agreements
Collateral warranties
JCT agreements
Shared ownership and open market site set up
Individual and bulk plot acquisition completions for sale or rent
Supported living
Bulk refinancing
Stock transfers
Portfolio disposals and acquisitions
Finance, securitisation and charging
Development & Regeneration Projects
Our long-standing relationships with many clients gives us trusted advisor status. They approach us at the outset of a proposed development where we provide strategic advice to assist in exploring possible structures for development acquisitions. Preparation is key to any transaction, allowing a development manager to set parameters for negotiations with third parties including landowners.
The team have many years’ experience in development and regeneration projects for a wide range of public sector and quasi-public sector clients. Our service covers all aspects of site assembly, acquisition, development, procurement, construction and join venture arrangements including grant funding and related ancillary planning elements.
Our expertise and experience include, but are not limited to:
Site assembly
Site acquisitions and disposals
Development agreements for residential, mixed use and supported housing projects
Joint ventures including public, private partnerships
Compulsory purchase
Grant funding
Overage deeds
Estate rationalisation advice
s106 agreements, variations and advice
Infrastructure agreements
Utility agreements
Collateral warranties
JCT agreements
Shared ownership and open market site set up
Individual and bulk plot acquisition completions for sale or rent
Supported living
Bulk refinancing
Stock transfers
Portfolio disposals and acquisitions
Finance, securitisation and charging
Home Ownership & Asset Management
The integrated nature of the Forbes Housing Ground enables us to provide an end-to-end service which is responsive, proactive and of a consistently high standard. Each team member understands our client’s strategic priorities and end goals in undertaking property transactions. Our site set up work on developments is completed running in parallel with acquisitions to ensure maximum efficiency. Formal handover meetings take place at the point acquisitions are completed with a full suite of documents ready to be issued to plot buyers’ solicitors, anticipating and resolving standard queries which may arise from their purchase.
In addition we provide all manner of related asset transactions where widely experienced advisors excel in providing an efficient service to housing providers. With a specialist always on hand , no matter how unusual or strategic the query, our clients can be certain that they receive valuable advice from a full-service sector group who are immersed in Housing matters and understand the Regulatory and budgetary framework under which our clients operate.
We have experience in many home ownership and asset management work types including, but not limited to:
Shared Ownership and open market plot sales
Right to Buy and Right to Acquire
Lease extensions
Interim and Final Staircasing, including DPA areas
Acquisition and disposal of freehold reversions
Property disposals and acquisitions
Title rectification
Residential lease surrender and re-grant
Repayment of discount
Auction sales
Garden tenancies , disposals and licences
Management and service level agreements
Nomination agreements
Home Ownership & Asset Management
The integrated nature of the Forbes Housing Ground enables us to provide an end-to-end service which is responsive, proactive and of a consistently high standard. Each team member understands our client’s strategic priorities and end goals in undertaking property transactions. Our site set up work on developments is completed running in parallel with acquisitions to ensure maximum efficiency. Formal handover meetings take place at the point acquisitions are completed with a full suite of documents ready to be issued to plot buyers’ solicitors, anticipating and resolving standard queries which may arise from their purchase.
In addition we provide all manner of related asset transactions where widely experienced advisors excel in providing an efficient service to housing providers. With a specialist always on hand , no matter how unusual or strategic the query, our clients can be certain that they receive valuable advice from a full-service sector group who are immersed in Housing matters and understand the Regulatory and budgetary framework under which our clients operate.
We have experience in many home ownership and asset management work types including, but not limited to:
Shared Ownership and open market plot sales
Right to Buy and Right to Acquire
Lease extensions
Interim and Final Staircasing, including DPA areas
Acquisition and disposal of freehold reversions
Property disposals and acquisitions
Title rectification
Residential lease surrender and re-grant
Repayment of discount
Auction sales
Garden tenancies , disposals and licences
Management and service level agreements
Nomination agreements
Commercial Leases
Our experienced practitioners understand that with an overwhelming focus on residential assets, practical, proactive support on generally less numerous commercial leased properties can be vital. Our team provides a full service on commercial lease transactions and advice of all types whether on mixed use new build developments or historic stock. Our sizeable team provides bespoke services including training, to update and modernise documents in use and can also review historic documents to improve clients records, making pragmatic suggestions for revised standard documents to be used going forward during an asset and terrier review process.
We provide the full range of commercial lease documents for use by Housing Providers including but not limited to:
Bespoke commercial leases for stand-alone or mixed use properties
Licences to occupy
Shared use agreements
Licences to Assign and underlet
Sub leases and related documents
Rent deposit deeds
Business lease termination advice
Commercial Leases
Our experienced practitioners understand that with an overwhelming focus on residential assets, practical, proactive support on generally less numerous commercial leased properties can be vital. Our team provides a full service on commercial lease transactions and advice of all types whether on mixed use new build developments or historic stock. Our sizeable team provides bespoke services including training, to update and modernise documents in use and can also review historic documents to improve clients records, making pragmatic suggestions for revised standard documents to be used going forward during an asset and terrier review process.
We provide the full range of commercial lease documents for use by Housing Providers including but not limited to:
Bespoke commercial leases for stand-alone or mixed use properties
Licences to occupy
Shared use agreements
Licences to Assign and underlet
Sub leases and related documents
Rent deposit deeds
Business lease termination advice
We find that Forbes have a wealth of experience in all elements of our housing management needs.
Chambers 2024
Not only did Forbes handle complex and sophisticated matters greatly, they also explained these in a way which was understandable and comprehendible.
Chambers 2024
The firm is always very responsive and the service is excellent.
Chambers 2024
Forbes are involved in a number of schemes where we purchase ‘off the shelf’ Section 106 developments, and where the timescales are short between exchanging contracts with the developer and build completion of the first affordable units. Forbes always work to our timescales for the drafting of the Shared Ownership lease and setting up the conveyancing.
Legal 500 2024
Forbes is a well known legal practice within our social housing sector. Having worked with many other legal practices, I view their success is down to their solid team work and communication. Always reasonable and adaptable to our business needs.
Legal 500 2024
You’ve supported me and my teams across different organisations amazingly for years.
Benjamin Mitchell, Head of Homeownership & Commercial Property, Incommunities Ltd
Recognition for our work
Recognition for our work
Our dedicated Housing & Regeneration team
Partner, Head of Housing and Regeneration (Property), Housing & Regeneration
Catherine Kennedy
Partner & Head of Housing and Regeneration (Litigation), Housing & Regeneration
Siobhan Keown
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