Our Commercial Real Estate Team has experience with all aspects of the construction and property industry, and our work ranges from handling specific property and related transactions to advising on the property issues that arise in commercial transactions.
The Team is one of the best regarded and largest dedicated real estate teams within the country, numbering over 100 specialists.
Our real estate lawyers are particularly experienced in dealing with development and investment, planning, secured lending, landlord and tenant, agricultural and residential property matters.
The Team has extensive experience acting for all types of business occupiers. Whether you are a retailer undertaking a nationwide expansion plan, or a company occupier relocating to a City head office, our goal is to understand your business thoroughly, to get a grasp of your specific property requirements and to produce a tailored solution.
Commercial real estate acquisitions are often dealt with in the broader context of major transactions such as company acquisitions or re-organisations. Our Team works closely with the firm’s specialist Corporate Team to ensure that our clients are given the best possible advice appropriate to each transaction.
The depth and range of expertise means our Team can work together in major and complex transactions on cost effective terms, providing our clients with true value for money.
Our Experience
Sizewell C legal Panel
Through our Ipswich/East Anglia office, [Birketts have provided] ongoing advice in connection with land acquisitions and transactions for sites associated with Sizewell C, the nuclear power station currently under construction on the Suffolk coast.
As a member of Sizewell C’s legal panel, the Commercial Real Estate department continues to work closely with the team tasked with the delivery of Sizewell C. We have secured multiple privately negotiated option agreements with landowners across the region for land required for supporting infrastructure (such as transport and accommodation facilities).
As well as legal advice, we have also provided strategic and practical guidance on this dynamic, long-term project for the region – a project of national significance but with local sensitivities.
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Accreditations
Legal 500 [UK 2025]
Top Tier Firm
Chambers [UK 2025]
Ranked in Band 1
The real estate team at Birketts is full of talent and there is a reason we continue to rely on them for almost all of our transactions.
Legal 500 [UK 2025]
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