Guy Sackett
UK Guide 2024
Band 4 : Real Estate
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Guy leads the Southern Real Estate team and heads up the firm’s Later Living and Care team which, along with housing, is one of the two principal sector focuses for the national real estate division.
Guy is an extremely experienced and highly thought of practitioner, with over 25 years’ of experience in advising developer clients. His practice is founded on residential-led, mixed-use schemes and urban regeneration projects and he has particular expertise in the strategic land, later living and student accommodation sectors.
Guy has an impressive and varied client following which includes well-known clients in the South such as Welbeck Strategic Land (a strategic land promoter serving mainly London and the South East, which has delivered projects worth over £2bn) and Artisan Real Estate Investors - a property development and investment company with a significant pipeline of city centre projects. In addition, Guy has been advising Landlink Estates in connection with the development and sale of a large commercial mixed use scheme in West Sussex. Guy also acts for niche student accommodation developers Infrastructure Investments Limited in relation to their portfolio of student accommodation assets and has, in the last year, brought in new client, Social Income LLP, who operate in the niche and expanding specialist supported housing sector.
Some of Guy's recent work highlights include acting for: Landlink Estates Limited in connection with the sale of Phase 2 of Saltbox Business Park as a serviced development site, following on from the recent successful forward funding of the pre-let Phase 1. Advising EC1 Residences Limited in connection with the development and refinancing of a trophy student accommodation asset in central London with a GDV of approx. £100m. Guy has also continued to advise Welbeck Strategic Land in the promotion of one of the largest allocated sites in Sussex for a residential-led mixed use scheme which will include new school, healthcare and leisure facilities and public amenity space.