Ben Newton

Practice Areas

Ben helps Real Estate clients on a broad range of matters from development work, leasehold structuring, forward funding, acquisitions and disposals to lettings, focusing on outlet lettings.

Ben can advise you across the full spectrum of matters from initial acquisition and site assembly, development constraints, and forward funding to asset management and disposal, whether you are an investor or a real estate development company.

Ben helps clients deliver significant development schemes, which in recent years have focused on Build to Rent schemes involving leasehold structuring and forward funding agreements, developments above operational railway and forward sales. Ben has also delivered and pre-let substantial retail and leisure redevelopment schemes.

With regard to disposals and acquisitions, Ben has dealt with numerous deals with values in excess of £100m, taking a considered approach to project management to ensure that deals are concluded in short order.

Ben also has extensive asset management experience focusing on outlet centers and uses his in-depth knowledge of turnover rent leases and structuring of interconnected tenant re-engineering deals to help real estate companies partner with brands and drive asset value.

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