A Consultancy With Real Expertise In Land And Property

Higham Commercial specialises in bringing land forward for development and handling the entirety of the relevant transaction, 

both on and off market, on behalf of landowners, developers and other clients throughout the UK.

Work includes instructing and managing the entire development team on behalf of clients including planning, all technical support, and the legal team, and providing strategic advice on the most appropriate way forward in all the circumstances.

The nature of recommended land transactions is normally predicated on the likely planning outcomes. We have extensive experience of a wide range of completed deals involving the following:

• Unconditional disposals where development value has already been established
• Contracts conditional upon the grant of outline or detailed planning permission and the satisfaction of other preconditions
• Options to purchase - conditional and unconditional
• Promotion agreements
• Overage and sharing agreements

Transactions may be on behalf of individual clients, or, in the case of large strategic proposals, frequently on behalf of multiple ownerships. The majority of the work in which we are involved is handling disposals though we also act for clients in the acquisition of land, and in land assembly as part of a development proposal.

The firm is well organised to handle any format of work from immediate consultancy to a long term work plan and strategy. Our first priority is to gain a close understanding of the requirements of the client as we are fully aware that each has their own objective and each will require an individual solution particularly having regard to available resources.

Throughout the process we anticipate close liason with the appointed lawyers in order to evaluate all title matters and to secure the best prospect of a legally completed deal at the appropriate time.

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