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Home Sales

Our Home Sales team works on a local, regional, and national scale. We provide commercial and practical solutions in the Housebuilder, Social Housing and Later Living sectors attending to our clients’ legal matters with confidence and minimal fuss.

Our Home Sales team has significant experience in dealing with new build developments and all associated matters. We can assist you by preparing comprehensive contract packs for your developments, assisting with your infrastructure agreements and dealing with your outright or shared ownership sales. We will have team members with specialist knowledge in all of these areas. Our breadth and depth of experience allows us to identify risks, challenges and, importantly, opportunities, to deliver the right outcomes. You can be sure that whatever your legal requirement, we will have the right expertise.

How our Home Sales team can help

Our team covers the full range of Home Sales support and advice for companies in the Housebuilder, Social Housing and Later living sectors. Acting on a multitude of complex transactions, our service covers:

  • Site set-up – preparing the contract packs for the sale of shared ownerships houses and flats.
  • Infrastructure.
  • Plot Sales – Open Market and Shared Ownership.
  • Part exchange.
  • Sales, Purchases and Auctions.
  • Share Resales, Lease extensions and Staircasing.
  • Right to buy/acquire/shared ownership.

As a firm we can provide a seamless service from acquisition to disposal and as a team we are able to deal with a high-volume of matters transactions in an efficient and cost-effective manner without compromising on service. You will have a dedicated client team who will be able to provide you with excellent support and build a strong relationship with your sales team.

Our approach to working with you

Our approach to Home Sales is solutions-focused, we provide practical and pragmatic advice to revert to clients with potential solutions and well-devised strategies rather than issues.

We communicate with you throughout the transaction to ensure that you are fully informed of your matters and their current position. We provide formal weekly updates as well as updating you throughout the transaction via phone calls and emails, in order to ensure that you are aware of any potential issues or delays and potential solutions to the same. Our focus on client service is an aspect which differentiates us from other suppliers and is key to why our clients keep coming back. Our aim is for you to consider our team an extension of yours.

With the UK facing a housing shortage there has been increasing pressure for housebuilders to boost productivity and upskill their workforce. Consequently, we’ve expanded our team and provide regular training to keep up to date with new topics and systems and remain at the forefront of the industry. This offers valuable market insights and helps us deliver outstanding service to our clients.

What our clients say about us

“Personable, responsive, good old-fashioned customer service.” The Legal 500

“The depth in the team means that there is always someone available to help with unexpected matters as well as for day-to-day issues that arise. The land transactions have required some unique ‘outside the box’ thinking which Clarke Wilmott have delivered well and kept the project timeline moving.” The Legal 500

“The team has good strength in depth and has the internal expertise to deal with almost any problem.” Chambers UK

“They are thoroughly impressive from top to bottom from excellent trainees through to partners… they are wonderful to work with…” Client

Contact our Home Sales team today

Our specialist Home Sales team are ready to provide support for all clients. We can provide advice to businesses located in the UK and internationally.

If you would like to find out more about how our Home Sales team can support you, please call for a free initial consultation today on 0800 652 8025 or get in touch online.

Your key contacts

Kate Saunders

Partner and Head of Home Sales

Taunton
Kate Saunders is a Partner and Head of Clarke Willmott’s Home Sales team, based in Taunton, with a focus on optimising efficiencies and accuracy.
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Carly Blunn

Senior Associate (Chartered Legal Executive)

Taunton
Carly undertakes a variety of work including reviewing and drafting precedent legal documents for sales, auctions, staircasing, lease extension, shared ownership resale, traditional sale and purchase, and case management system design / improvements.
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Developer’s – don’t forget your commercial leases in your residential schemes – Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 section 5 (LTA)

Where a private landlord/developer of a mixed use residential and commercial scheme is proposing to lease its commercial premises then beware, (under certain circumstances) qualifying tenants of flats have a right of first refusal to purchase that interest.
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