UK
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.
Experience
Claire has acted for:
- a developer in a tripartite transaction involving the acquisition of a site from Homes England and the development and sale of a proportion of the units to a Registered Provider. The development works were carried out under a building lease with the freehold being transferred in phases at practical completion.
- a developer in a complex multi party conditional acquisition of land surrounding Leamington Spa train station. The transaction involved site assembly and the relocation and development of a new out of town bus station.
- a developer in the multi million pound sale of serviced parcels to two PLC housebuilders.
- a Registered Provider client on the conditional long leasehold acquisition of a landmark vacant office building in Stratford Upon Avon. The site was redeveloped to provide an award winning private rented scheme.
- a Registered Provider client in connection with the conditional acquisition of the section 106 affordable housing on a high profile brown field regeneration site in Swindon. The developer is a building society which is building homes again for the first time in over one hundred years and the scheme attracted national press coverage.
- a Registered Provider client on four separate joint venture agreements with a private developer.
