Matthew has particular expertise in acting for residential developers, from setting up and acquiring development sites to dealing with finance and disposals. He is often presented with novel objectives, for which he creates a legal framework to facilitate the delivery of a project. This usually requires close collaboration between lawyers and other professional advisers.
Alongside development work, Matthew has a broad range of experience across various general commercial property matters, including landlord & tenant issues and business transfer work. He primarily acts for property developers, landowners, and small and medium-sized enterprises.
Relevant Experience:
- Purchase of a large development site in East Devon and onward sale of land plots with build agreements to end-purchasers.
- Purchase and finance of land in Salisbury for redevelopment as five dwellings.
- Joint venture in South Devon, acting for a landowner on the development and sale of forty dwellings.
- Sale of assets with charge-back arrangements for a pub chain.
- Purchase and finance of a large commercial storage and distribution centre in Somerset.
- Acting for a developer to acquire essential easements for a ten-dwelling brownfield site development.
- Acting for a landowner in granting an option to a PLC housebuilder for 7 acres of land near Exeter to satisfy planning obligations.
- Granting an option for drainage easements to a commercial developer near Exeter Airport.
- Sale of an online retail business comprising both property and intellectual property assets.
- Sales and purchases of pharmacies in the Exeter area and London.
