Bio
Ian is a Residential Property Partner.
Ian has more than 30 years’ experience in the South Coast market.
From first-time buyers setting out on their home ownership journey to property development companies, investment companies, and high-net-worth individuals across the business and sport communities, Ian supports a diverse client base across a range of complex, high-value property transactions.
His areas of expertise include freehold and leasehold sales and purchases; new-build purchases; buy-to-let portfolio acquisitions and disposals; auction property transactions; re-mortgages and refinancing; transfers of equity; residential development plot sales; title review and title defect resolution; unregistered land transactions; rural and country house purchases and sales; gifting property and intra-family transfers; and cross-border and non-UK resident residential acquisitions.
Examples of Ian’s work include:
- Advising on the sale of a large portfolio of residential flats in a single transaction for a national association.
- Merging two leasehold estates into one single arrangement for an executive waterfront penthouse
- Resolving a failed auction sale completion and successfully claiming contractual entitlements for a client.
- Exchanging and completing the sale of a property for an overseas client in under one week.
- Successfully obtaining a title from the Crown Solicitors for a client under the Bona Vacantia rules.
- Reconstituting a title for an executor to facilitate a sale when there were lost title deeds.
- Transferring and refinancing a large property portfolio from individual ownership to a limited company.
- Selling a £2.5 million country property with a complex title makeup.
- Purchasing a £3 million waterside property overlooking The Solent.
- Supporting the rectification and reconstruction of titles on a development in Dorset to enable future suitability for mortgage purposes.
Professional Accreditations
- Chartered Institute of Legal Executives