Gary Bunce

With a deep understanding of the prime and super-prime property landscape, Gary brings more than 30 years’ experience to high-value and complex residential property purchases, sales and non-standard property matters to protect and advance clients’ property wealth.

Gary works with high- and ultra-high-net worth individuals, high-profile public figures, investors, landowners, charities, and corporate landlords, supporting across a range of matters including property portfolio management; resolving defective title issues that threaten to stall high-value completions; advising on statutory and non-statutory lease extensions, variations, tenancy agreements, and structured disposals (including time-sensitive sales by auction); and crafting complex frameworks including option agreements, conditional contracts, overage agreements, and pre-emption rights.

Examples of Gary’s experience include:

• Advising a landowner on a Conditional on Planning Contract, with provisions made to allow for more ambitious planning permissions being granted – resulting in the client achieving a further £2.4 million when the ambitious planning was secured.
• Acting for a high-profile celebrity in a high-value sale and purchase transaction, ensuring all connected parties adhered to strict confidentiality requirements.
• Representing an agricultural landowner in successfully negotiating a high-value compulsory purchase sale to HS2.
• Remedying a lost title deed and historic title defects for unregistered land and property caused by a previous landowner selling unregistered land twice by mistake; the client’s land was safely registered at the Land Registry and reinstated with costs recovered from the previous landowner.