Claire Waring

Why choose me

I have over 25 years of real estate experience and advise on all aspects of both instant and strategic land acquisition, development, disposal and promotion.  

My expertise includes:  

• complex conditional contracts 
• fixed and variable price contracts 
• option agreements 
• promotion agreements 
• hybrid agreements 
• development agreements 
• golden brick contracts 
• overage agreements and variations 
• landowner collaboration agreements 
• land assembly 
• equalisation 
• joint venture agreements 
• escrow agreements 
• control strips 
• deferred payments and legal charges  

My clients include developers, promoters, land owners, land pool trusts, local authorities and Registered Providers. I’ve worked with them on matters including: 

• a tripartite transaction involving the acquisition of a site from Homes England for a developer client, and the development and sale of a proportion of the units to a Registered Provider. The development works were carried out under a building lease with the freehold being transferred in phases at practical completion. 
• a complex multi-party conditional acquisition of land surrounding Leamington Spa train station for a developer client. The transaction involved site assembly and the relocation and development of a new out-of-town bus station. 
• the multi-million-pound sale of serviced parcels to two PLC housebuilders on behalf of a developer client. 
• the conditional long leasehold acquisition of a landmark vacant office building in Stratford-upon-Avon for a Registered Provider client. The site was redeveloped to provide an award winning private rented scheme. 
• the conditional acquisition of the section 106 affordable housing on a high-profile brown field regeneration site in Swindon for a Registered Provider client. The developer is a building society which is building homes again for the first time in over one hundred years and the scheme attracted national press coverage. 
• four separate joint venture agreements with a private developer for a Registered Provider client.