Bio
Natalie is a Commercial Real Estate Senior Associate.
Natalie specialises in advising on agricultural, residential and commercial property law, and the implications for the management, finance, disposal or acquisition of land and property.
She works closely with investors, high-net-worth individuals, business owners, landowners, agricultural businesses, farming families, trusts, and large estate owners.
Natalie’s expertise spans the acquisition, disposal, letting, refinance, and internal development of all types of real estate, landed and agricultural estates, multi-user mixed used premises, farms, woodland and land holdings; strategic land development (including options, promotion and overage agreements for both residential and commercial developments), and ancillary utilities easements.
She also supports with the grant, surrender, variation and termination of Agricultural Holdings Act Tenancies, succession rights, Farm Business Tenancies, and grazing licences and profits, alongside advising on bespoke landlaw matters (including adverse possession, rights of way, first registration of unregistered land, drainage and other easements, interpretation of covenants, riparian and sporting rights).
Examples of Natalie’s work include:
- Acting on the purchase and refinance of a £14,500,000 mixed-use, multi-occupier landed estate.
- Acting for landowners in the negotiation and implementation of a large Development Consent Order (DCO) solar scheme, including negotiating the terms of options, leases, access licences, and easements with the developer, and successfully coordinating ancillary surrender of existing third-party occupations.
- Acting on numerous succession planning and estate restructuring projects, working alongside tax and trust colleagues, land agents, accountants, and surveyors to realise the client’s objectives and protect the future of the estate.
- Acting on the letting of units on numerous large industrial estates.
- Acting for an estate in the internal restructuring and development of core estate property, including preparing inter-estate and third party letting documentation, transfers, contracts and covenants, negotiating required easements with utilities companies, and facilitating the installation and use of an estate wide drainage system.