DAC Beachcroft’s real estate practice is part of a wider international law firm, numbering 2,300 employees. The firm provides broad-based corporate and commercial legal services alongside market leading sector knowledge in insurance, healthcare and real estate.
For real estate, we provide a comprehensive range of advice at every stage of the development cycle, to UK and overseas organisations whose property assets are at the heart of their business. With over 135 lawyers we have one of the UK’s largest dedicated real estate practice and one of the largest national networks. In addition to our offices in Hardman Street in Manchester, we operate from Bristol, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, London, Newcastle, Newport and Winchester. Our breadth and depth means that our lawyers specialise in particular areas of the market:
- Our destination and communities team delivers development advice and customised, complex volume asset management solutions in high profile destination centres, including the 3 largest in the country and on smaller community and high street schemes
- The DAC Beachcroft residential team advises all 12 of the UK’s leading housebuilders and also to developers in specific areas – senior, student, BTR, care homes for example. We are active from inception to completion. Our strategic land team are some of the most experienced in the sector and advise on emerging garden villages for example. Our plot sales team works for several volume developers.
- Our commercial investment and development team advises institutional, international and private investors
- The integration of expert, in planning, construction, corporate finance and litigation for example, into the core transactional team is a particular point of difference that brings efficiency in communication and execution.
Add in our extensive knowledge of hotel and leisure developments and the team is exceptionally well placed to bring together all this expertise in support of the many mixed use projects emerging in response to economic, demographic, technological and social trends.
Electronic signatures: validly executed or not?
In today’s modern society, electronic signatures are used in place of handwritten signatures in many different types of transaction. What about property transactions?
Property owners and investors look to data for the future of property value
Property values, the way value is calculated, and the fragmentation of the existing supply chain are just some of the changes that the valuations sector will experience from technological...
A grave matter
Landlords who are developing within the vicinity of a disused burial ground should be aware of the law surrounding the treatment of long buried human remains. The discovery of...
A ‘heads up’ on heads of terms
A recent case has provided a warning that inadequately drafted letters of intent are capable of being legally binding.
The ripple effect of 5G
The global economic impact of 5G in new goods and services is forecast to reach $12tn by 2035 as the technology allows us to move from simply connecting people...
Impact of planning conditions on housing delivery
We've now published our report, Planning Conditions and Their Impact on Housing Supply: Conversations with Homebuilders, an analysis of the role that planning conditions play in the development process...
A healthy option
A greater focus on the senior housing market could have a positive impact on the overall supply of homes and is another route for reducing the country’s housing shortage.
Has an easement lost its purpose?
An easement is a right attached to land allowing one landowner’s land rights over another landowner’s land.
If the cap fits…
A landlord should always be aware that the disrepair element of any dilapidations claim brought against its tenant is subject to, and limited by ‘the statutory cap’.
Re-thinking location, location, location
Chris Air, a technology law specialist and member of DAC Beachcroft’s proptech team, considers the impact of the next phase of technological evolution on the real estate sector.
