Our dedicated Commercial Property Team, headed by James Burgess, represents sellers, buyers, developers, landlords, tenants, lenders, borrowers, investors and joint venture partners (both from the public and private sectors) on a local and national basis.

We were very pleased to win the Commercial Property Award at the Yorkshire Legal Awards in both 2025, having also been shortlisted for the Business Team Award at the LawNet Awards in 2025.

We advise on all aspects of property transactions and provide straightforward, practical, commercial and cost effective advice and solutions tailored to achieve the objectives of your business. We appreciate the demands on your business and will work with you to deliver projects on time, on budget and fulfilling your goals. Whilst satisfying legal requirements is of course necessary, it is important to ensure that transactions are structured so as not to hinder the commercial success of your business.

Our specialisms include:

Property Development

• Exclusivity agreements, options and pre-emptions
• Conditional contracts
• Development agreements
• Freehold and leasehold acquisitions and disposals
• Forward sales and lettings
• Public and private funding
• Joint venture structures
• Building contracts, professional team appointments and collateral warranties

Property Investment and Management

• Acquisition and disposal of freehold and leasehold investment property
• Finance and funding
• Portfolio transactions
• Property management of occupational tenants

Landlord and Tenant

• Granting and taking of leases
• Disposals and assignments
• Licences to occupy
• Alterations and additions
• Variations of lease terms

Sector Specific

• Care home transactions particularly involving portfolio acquisitions and disposals
• Licenced premises
• Education transactions including:
  Collaborative joint ventures
  Acquisitions of education institutes
  Property development
  Portfolio management

Where we may not have the requisite expertise within our firm, we have access to a wide range of experts, through our affiliation with other law firms. We have longstanding working relationships and will manage all advice provided this way ensuring a consistent approach and interface with you.

In today’s marketplace property transactions increasingly require legal advice on non-property issues. Within our firm we work closely with other departments allowing us to provide you with full service in relation to areas such as corporate finance, commercial contracts, employment and dispute resolution.

Our Commercial Property team are a technically excellent, hardworking and highly motivated team who speak your language. We will work with you in order to provide the best advice possible in the most timely and cost effective manner.

If you would like to contact our Commercial Property team click here or call 01484 821300.