Practice Areas
Claire has worked in real estate for over twenty five years and specialises in strategic land and residential development. Claire advises on all aspects of both instant and strategic land acquisition, development, disposal and promotion. Claire’s clients include developers, promoters, land owners, land pool trusts, local authorities and Registered Providers.
Claire's expertise includes:
- complex conditional contracts
- fixed and variable price contracts
- option agreements
- promotion agreements
- hybrid agreements
- development agreements
- golden brick contracts
- overage agreements and variations
- landowner collaboration agreements
- land assembly
- equalisation
- joint venture agreements
- escrow agreements
- control strips
- deferred payments and legal charges
Career
Claire has a degree in Law with French and qualified with City firm Cameron McKenna. In 1999 Claire moved to the Midlands and joined Wragge & Co in Birmingham. From 2004 until 2008 Claire worked in-house with plc housebuilders David Wilson Homes and Bovis Homes. Claire joined Wright Hassall in 2008 and became a partner in 2010.