Brian is a partner in our Commercial Real Estate team specialising in residential development.
Brian has acted for some of the UK's leading residential developers for more than fifteen years. He specialises in real estate property development and particularly in housebuilding.
He and the dedicated Housebuilding team at Morton Fraser MacRoberts provide a full service for residential developers in all aspects for their developments- including short term acquisitions/conditional contracts, long term Option Agreements and Promotion Agreements, Planning and Construction advice, site assembly/site set up and plot sales.
Brian regularly acts for a variety of housebuilders and promoters including some of the largest developers in the UK, SME's, affordable housing providers and smaller developers carrying out their first developments. He also deals with developers' funders and major UK lenders to ensure that any legal issues that may present problems are identified and resolved early.
His experience of the residential development market means that he can quickly identify important issues and risks, find pragmatic solutions and get contracts concluded and sites purchased promptly and efficiently.
We have recently seen the emergence of a new clause in Option Agreements and Promotion Agreements for residential development sites. The clause is being agreed regularly enough that in a few years it may well be considered to be a standard clause. (I will talk generally from the perspective of Option Agreements here but the principles are the same with in respect of Promotion Agreements).
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