Our specialist social housing department has members who have been providing legal solutions for some of the country's leading housing associations for over 20 years. Their experience relates to all aspects of social housing provision, including work for registered social landlords, other housing associations, registered providers of social housing and community land trusts.
The team has been innovative in providing solutions for social housing providers and has been at the forefront of developing standard planning obligation agreements for use in counties throughout England and Wales. Their specialist experience includes:
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Refinancing portfolios of up to £97m
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Acquisition of housing stock
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Site acquisition and related development work for houses and flats for major housing associations
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Acquisition and development of sites for specialist rural housing initiatives
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Nominations agreements with numerous district councils relating to occupancy including cases where such nominations are found in planning obligation agreements
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Advising on all aspects of shared ownership leases, such as Newbuild Homebuy leases, Key Worker leases and Social Homebuy leases. Drafting restricted staircasing shared ownership leases and for management work relating to those leases and documenting staircasing
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Acting for registered social landlords in acquiring their main offices and dealing with lease renewals for them
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Advising on legislation specifically relating to housing associations including advising on all aspects of disposing and acquiring land
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Advising and preparing standard documentation for use in private sector renting schemes
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Dealing with all aspects of rent to home buy schemes
