Jamie Clarke

Jamie specialises in commercial, agricultural, and residential real estate transactions, with particular expertise in rights of access, services, ransom strips, and overage agreements, commercial leases, and the sale and acquisition of investment properties.

Jamie works with landowners and developers throughout the development lifecycle – from the initial concept and agreement of heads of terms, to negotiation of the planning promotion or strategic land agreements, and structuring the deal.

With experience of working on projects including housebuilding, offices, retail, pubs, and business parks, he works to knit together the interests of all parties (particularly where there are multiple landowners and joint venture developers), and works closely with specialist tax advisers to ensure that deals are structured tax-efficiently.

Examples of Jamie’s work include:

• Acting for the owner of three key sites within a large, allocated scheme in Milton Keynes for up to 2,000 houses, and negotiating and completing a collaboration agreement with two other landowners.
• Negotiating a tariff agreement to ensure the equal distribution of planning contributions across the allocation.
• Acting for a developer securing land interests within multiple ownerships for a potential employment site with a gross development value of circa £430 million through hybrid option-promotion agreements.
• Acting for an estate entering into a hybrid option-promotion agreement with a large regional housebuilder for the promotion of their land for up to 1,500 houses, advising on the disposal of the first phase for circa £1 0million, and ensuring sufficient rights, access and controls are in place for future development of later phases.