Sally Peake

With more than 25 years’ experience, Sally handles a wide range of property matters, with particular expertise in large executive homes and country homes with grounds, mansion flats, Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs), hostels, and boutique hotels.

Sally works with a diverse range of clients including high-net-worth individuals, families, family offices, family trusts, investors, investment companies, and trust companies.

Her expertise spans complex, high-value residential property transactions (including prime London and South East acquisitions and disposals, and rural, coastal and heritage assets); matters involving complex title issues (including rights of way, access arrangements, restrictive covenants and defective titles); private drainage, private accessways and related risks; short-term bridging finance; and later-life lending and equity release.

Sally also frequently advises on transactions which intersect with wider wealth planning – including trust structures, life interests, and intergenerational succession planning.

Examples of Sally’s work include:

• Advising on the sale and acquisition of Grade II-listed residential properties with significant acreage, including equestrian facilities and land.
• Acting on the purchase and prospective acquisition of high-value rural properties involving agricultural land and woodland.
• Supporting clients on transactions involving ancillary assets including cottages and vineyards.
• Advised on planning risk in rural settings, including the proposed sale of a property where a barn had been converted into a dwelling without consent.
• Acting on the structured transfer of residential property portfolios between pension fund trustee corporations based offshore.
• Advising on the acquisition of a residential portfolio from one charity to another.