The UK’s ageing population continues to drive significant demand for specialist housing. From retirement villages and integrated retirement communities to extra care housing and age restricted developments, the sector requires specialist legal advice that combines residential development expertise with an understanding of the unique operational and consumer challenges associated with later living.
Our multidisciplinary team supports clients throughout the entire lifecycle of a scheme, providing commercially focused advice from strategic land acquisition through to operational management and resident occupation.
Strategic land and site acquisition
- Strategic land agreements, options and promotion agreements.
- Site acquisition and disposal.
- Land assembly.
- Title due diligence.
- Conditional contracts.
- Development agreements.
Planning and development
- Planning due diligence.
- Section 106 Agreements.
- Infrastructure agreements.
- Age restricted occupancy provisions.
- Development delivery structures.
- Construction and procurement support.
Integrated retirement communities
- Development and structuring of retirement villages and IRCs.
- Estate management arrangements.
- Resident facilities and community infrastructure.
- Long-term operational frameworks.
- Governance structures.
- Care agreements.
Site set-up and unit disposals
- Preparation of precedent contracts, transfers and leases.
- PropCo and OpCo structures.
- Site set-up and unit sales.
- Sales pack documentation.
- Estate regulation schemes.
- Management company arrangements.
- Large-scale unit disposal programmes.
Care and extra care
- Specialist advice for delivering dementia care units, extra care housing and supported living accommodation.
Consumer and regulatory advice
- ARCO Consumer Code compliance.
- Deferred management charge structures.
- Event fee arrangements.
- Consumer protection requirements.
- Resident-facing documentation.
- Operational risk management.
Funding and investment
- Development finance.
- Forward funding.
- Joint ventures.
- Portfolio acquisitions and disposals.
- Refinancing and asset management.
Recent work highlights
Advising developers on the acquisition and delivery of integrated retirement community schemes across the UK.
Preparing and implementing precedent leases, contracts and transfer documentation for later living developments.
Acting on strategic land, option and promotion agreements for land and immediate land acquisition intended for retirement and extra care development.
Supporting later living providers with site set-up and unit disposal programmes.
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