Property
We can help you to meet the challenges and seize the opportunities of today’s real estate market. Our experience in your sectors gives us a crucial insight into how you work, the market in which you operate and what you want to achieve.
Expertise
Market experience
We have advised on over £5billion of property transactions in the last five years for landlords, developers and investors around the UK and internationally across a broad range of sectors including:Retail
We advise on the development, sale, purchase, investment, letting and management of large shopping centres and other retail schemes all over England.Residential
We advise on the sale and purchase of prime central London properties and high value rural properties and estates for a mix of UK and international clients. We also advise on high-value residential developments around the UK.
Hotels & leisure
Our hotel development and investment projects involve major hotel chains. Our experience also covers holiday parks, multi-screen cinemas, nightclubs and restaurants.Urban regeneration
We advise on major urban regeneration projects including the largest urban regeneration project in England, the multi award winning Liverpool ONE and other large projects in and around London and the rest of England.Landed estates
We are renowned for our work for landed estates and have advised on over £1 billion of investment, development and strategic projects for some of the largest landed estates in the country. Our clients include the Bedford Estates, the Calthorpe Estates Grosvenor,and the Howard de Walden Estate.Industrial
Our lawyers are expert in development and investment transactions covering distribution centres, industrial parks, data centres and production outlets.Offices
We advise landlords and tenants on the development, investment and lettings of offices including “trophy” headquarter buildings with a focus on the City and West End markets.
Track Record
- Liverpool ONE, the £1 billion, 42 acre, award winning scheme
comprising 130,000 sqm of retail space, 160 shops, a multi-screen
cinema and more than 20 restaurants.
- Acquisition and development of The Berners Hotel, W1 for
comprehensive redesign and redevelopment by Marriott. The hotel is
planned to open as Marriott's new lifestyle boutique hotel brand
EDITION in 2013 - the first in London.
- Freehold sale of a portfolio of petrol station businesses to a
well-known listed oil company.
- Development and subsequent £53 million sale of a mixed use
retail and affordable housing scheme in Haringey.
- Development of a grade II listed Art Deco building in Mayfair
into a luxury, boutique hotel featuring a unique habitable
sculpture by Antony Gormley.
- Acquisition and refurbishment of 8 Fenchurch Place, London EC3,
a 93,708 sq ft City office building.
- Acquistions programme for the Mayfair and Belgravia portfolio
totalling over £100 million.
- Sale of 15 luxury apartments in a 60,000 sq ft grade II* listed
building, one of London's most prominent residential projects.
“Boodle Hatfield has acted for us across our UK property portfolio for a number of years. They know our business inside out, and give strategic user-friendly and above all highly commercial advice. They come highly recommended.”
Peter Beckwith, Chairman, PMB Holdings
“a good practice with an all-round property understanding.”
Chambers 2012