Real Estate Finance
Structure and negotiate funding for acquisitions, refinancing, and investments, across institutional, private, and syndicated property deals. We help align your finance terms with deal speed and strategic intent.
Real Estate Law
Our real estate lawyers have the specialist knowledge and experience that your business needs to get the most out of its real estate assets and transactions.
Our Real Estate services
From planning and development to finance, leasing, and disposal, move through each stage of your asset strategy with guidance that gives you clarity, control, and pace. Whether you’re repositioning a portfolio, generating land value, or funding a new phase, we work as part of your team to deliver commercially focused outcomes.Legal advice for real estate developers, investors, and occupiers
Shape deals, manage portfolios, and plan projects with guidance that moves at market pace, and keeps your long-term goals in focus.
Benefit from advice across everything from strategic land and regeneration to acquisitions, funding, and leasing, designed for institutional investors, developers, housebuilders, landlords, and occupiers.
You’ll gain commercially focused input that protects your assets, reduces risk, and unlocks value, delivered by legal partners who understand the pressures, timelines, and complexity of real estate.
Our national team supports you at every stage of the property lifecycle, combining sector insight with clear, actionable advice that helps you move decisively.
We can support with:
- Site acquisition, development, and asset disposal
- Strategic land promotion, collaboration, and options
- Commercial leases, occupation, and portfolio management
- Real estate finance, refinancing, and investment structuring
- Construction contracts, warranties, and development risk
- Construction disputes
- Planning applications, infrastructure, and environmental law.
You’ll also benefit from tailored recommendations if you’re managing a propco, running a family office, leading phased or mixed-use developments, or navigating international property projects.
How we can help
Our commercial lawyers combine sharp insight with expertise to navigate risk, unlock opportunity, and drive results. With legal services spanning the full real estate industry, we deliver strategic advice shaped by deep sector knowledge and a clear understanding of your goals.Speak to a member of our team
Our team support you to navigate complexity, seize opportunity and move forward with legal clarity.
Guy Sackett
National Head of Real Estate
Contact our specialists
Get strategic advice from a team that knows how to protect and grow your business. Please complete our enquiry form and one of our experts will contact you by the next working day.
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News & Insights
Key headlines and analysis on the real estate sector.
Destination Office: how occupiers are rethinking workspace strategyWith work patterns evolving and office attendance increasing, occupiers are taking a more decisive and strategic approach to their office portfolios. Irwin Mitchell’s Office Occupiers Survey 2026 explores how businesses are reconfiguring space, improving ESG performance and creating ‘Destination Offices’ that support people, productivity and long-term value.
Making an enquiry
We have several ways you can contact us, either by completing our online contact form, by phone, or using our live chat. If you start your journey online, here are the first steps to working together.
Complete our online formWe need a few details to understand your situation and the kind of support you need.
We’ll contact you by phoneOn the call our experts will ask you a few more questions to make sure we connect you with the right legal advice from our team.
We arrange a full appointmentIf we’re able to support you further, the next step is an appointment with one of our specialists so we can discuss everything in more detail.
Recent work in business real estate law
“Irwin Mitchell’s guidance has been invaluable throughout a complex process, and we’re genuinely grateful for their support as we work to bring much needed homes and new public space to Worthing.”
Ben Cheal, managing director at Roffey Homes
Business Real Estate client
Our Real Estate team has advised Roffey Homes on its multi million pound purchase of land at Union Place in Worthing town centre, paving the way for construction of 216 new homes and commercial space.
Our locations
Work with a full-service firm with solicitors in 21 UK locations, giving you national expertise with local support.
Navigating Gateway 3
Passing Gateway 3 requires developers to show that a higher risk building is genuinely safe and fully compliant before anyone can move in. At this stage, the Building Safety Regulator (BSR) checks the complete package of evidence including accurate as-built drawings, fire and structural safety documents, the digital golden thread, and a clear record of all design changes since Gateway 2. If any of this information is missing or inconsistent, the regulator cannot approve the building. Without approval, no resident can legally move in. Moving people in in breach is a criminal offence. Early experience shows that incomplete submissions are a major cause of delays.
To avoid problems, developers should build Gateway 3 preparation into the project from the outset. This means capturing information in real time, keeping all safety documents up to date, and ensuring the golden thread is complete and well organised. Many delays arise because evidence is scattered across contractors, held in non-digital formats, or not aligned with what was actually built. Using structured digital systems for drawings, certificates and change control records helps ensure that the final submission is consistent and easy for the regulator to verify.
Gateway 3 also tests whether the project team has met its competency and governance duties. Developers should carry out internal checks before submitting, confirm that accountable persons have formally received and understood the golden thread information, and ensure all changes during construction were properly assessed and documented. Well prepared submissions are processed far more quickly, whereas weaker ones remain under review for extended periods, creating a serious risk, given that no occupation is allowed until approval is granted. Treating Gateway 3 as a critical project milestone, rather than an end of build task, is key to avoiding commercial and programme disruption.
Our team can help you navigate these changes by assessing where potential exposure lies, advising on BSR processes, and assisting in ensuring your project governance and documentation align with the evolving safety regime.
