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Property

As part of our nationally leading Charity Group, our Charity Property Team is recognised as a leader in this field and has been involved in many of the most significant transactions for charities (and the voluntary sector). This includes:

• major development projects
• very major land acquisitions
• large charity portfolio management
• complex hive-offs
• complex uplift; overage and clawback arrangements
• merger of charity portfolios
• advice relating to major construction contracting and planning
• advice to major grant funders to the sector

We understand and are daily involved in the technical legal requirements and other regulatory restrictions for a wide variety of charitable bodies and are able to apply our specialist expertise as part of the Charity Group to help with the delivery of our clients’ missions.  Being immersed in such work enables us to recognise and empathise with what matters to charities, in relation to both their operational and investment property, which can cover a very wide variety of property types and related legal frameworks.

Our work has involved us in dealing with all manner of operational charity property from care homes and hospices to almshouses’, schools, heritage properties, museums, churches, convents and other religious buildings of Christian. Jewish, Moslem, Hindu and Buddhist faiths (amongst others), nature reserves, city farms, hospitals and care villages (amongst many more).  This also includes the properties vested in trading subsidiaries including charity shops, offices conference facilities.  We also address all the property investment and management issues for charities with investment properties including portfolios containing residential, commercial and agricultural properties.

We have been closely involved in the development of law and regulation in the area and work closely with professional groups including the Charity Law Association, the Charity Property Association, the Ethical Property Federation and others in helping to ensure that developing law is drafted to take into account the specific requirements of the Charity and Voluntary Sector.