Real Estate

Providing The Service

The Real Estate team has attracted lawyers from the largest national and international law firms. With this level of experience we deliver a commercial legal service that is accessible, responsive and pro-active. This approach ensures that we meet and exceed our clients' requirements, enabling us to work together with our clients as an integral part of the project team.

Know-How

We recognise that legal knowledge coupled with commercial awareness constitute the fundamental components of providing an exceptional legal service. This ensures that you and your business will be dealing with lawyers of the highest calibre.

Facilitating Introductions

With an ever-increasing client and contact base Langleys generates opportunities between individuals, firms and companies alike within all sectors of commercial and residential real estate. We have particularly close links with potential joint venture partners, primary lending institutions and the principal commercial agents in both the regional and national markets. This contact source continues to be enormously beneficial to our existing clients.

Key Services

• Site assembly
• Option agreements and conditional contracts
• Commercial and residential development
• Secured lending
• Joint ventures
• Sale and purchase (freehold and leasehold)
• Portfolio management for companies, trusts and pension schemes
• Landlord and tenant (retail, offices, industrial and residential leasehold)
• Landlord and tenant disputes (including dilapidations)
• Lease renewals
• Forfeiture proceedings and recovery of rent arrears

Recognition & Accreditation

Within Commercial property: North and East Yorkshire, Langleys is a second tier firm.

Langleys’ practice is headed by Tim Cross, who joined the firm in 2010 from Lupton Fawcett LLP. Recent work includes advising York St John University on a development agreement and lease concerning a student residential scheme.

Within Commercial property: Elsewhere in the East Midlands, Langleys is a third tier firm.

Langleys continues to advise on local acquisitions and sales of land for development, including funding matters.
 

The Legal 500, 2010

A high proportion of Langleys' real estate instructions relate to development projects, the remainder being invesment, landlord and tenant, and secured lending.  

Langleys' three-partner commercial property group advised York St John University on a development agreement. The practice is on panels for Yorkshire Bank, Lloyds TSB, Handlesbanken and RBS. 



Chambers & Partners, 2012

Langleys recently advised William Birch & Sons on the sale of part of its Bradley Business Park in Huddersfield, for the sum of £7.4 million. Sources say: "We have had an exemplary service from Langleys, and I feel reassured that we can draw on their expertise when we need them."

Tim Cross heads the real estate group. 

Langleys attracts praise from a number of sources, with one interviewee encapsulating its strengths by saying: "It punches well above its weight for a regional firm." Another source adds that the team is "very approachable and very practical in the advice it gives." The team recently advised the University of Lincoln on issues surrounding its acquisition of long-leasehold interest.

Peter Horner is a well-respected figure, most noted for his transactional expertise. Sources admire his "all-round knowledge and the fact that he can come back to me very quickly on any specific enquiry I may have."