Helen Holden

Helen specialises in commercial property, with particular expertise in commercial acquisitions and disposals, portfolio management and asset strategy, leasing strategy for landlords and occupiers, investment transactions and funding support, real estate aspects of corporate deals, and land disposals for development.

Working with clients spanning a diverse range of sectors, she supports pension funds with landlord and tenant work and the acquisition and sale of their portfolio properties; advises residential property developers and property investment companies on the sale and purchase of commercial freehold and leasehold sites; acts for landowners, landlords and tenants, property developers and investors; provides property-related support to corporate transactions; and advises high street lenders and commercial borrowers on banking security.

Examples of Helen’s work include:

• Selling multiple parcels of land owned by five families, and dealing with complex asset management arising from all parties having competing interests.
• Enabling the purchase of a commercial leasehold with multiple rights of way issues, including rectifying a defect which could have caused problems in the future.
• Successfully negotiating the sale of a property, despite the buyer identifying that the multi-tenanted freehold did not have all the required documents for construction work carried out 10 years previously.
• Facilitating a successful negotiation of a reversionary lease and deed of variation to an existing lease to reflect rent reduction and ongoing caps to service charge and retail price index reviews.