Specialist Real Estate Tax

Property transactions are often tax driven. Our dedicated Real Estate Tax specialists work closely with our Corporate, Real Estate, Construction and Finance colleagues proactively to understand your business and ensure you receive straightforward and seamless structuring and transactional tax advice.

We combine our expertise with the Freeths specialist sectors in Indirect Real Estate, Housebuilding & Strategic Land and Infrastructure & Major Projects to deliver a one-stop-shop for Real Estate Tax structures. We collaborate with a renowned network of specialist firms in other jurisdictions, allowing us to advise clients on a national and international scale.

How can our specialist Real Estate Tax lawyers help?

We advise on all aspects of Real Estate Tax at every stage of acquisition, disposal, investment and development transactions, including:

• inward investment structures into UK real estate;
• real estate funds and structured financing arrangements, whether for large portfolios or single asset transactions;
• bespoke property structures for housebuilders and housing portfolios;
• developments, leasing and holding structures;
• joint ventures, listings and M&A for property holding companies/groups; and
• all indirect and direct tax implications of complex property structures and transactions.

Our real estate tax clients

Our clients include UK and international developers, institutional investors, corporate occupiers, student accommodation providers, private equity funds, joint venture companies, asset managers, pension funds, housing associations and retail and hospitality clients with extensive property portfolios, as well as real estate investment trusts (REITs) and other trust structures.

Why choose our real estate tax team?

We are highly experienced specialist Real Estate Tax advisers and have a strong reputation for delivering clear and strategic tax advice for UK and multinational businesses.

We take a pragmatic approach and will work with you to shape a commercially effective outcome which will save you and your business time and money.

We routinely act on foreign property holding structures, forward funding transactions, development structures and build to rent projects as well as global property investments, providing us with extensive skills and a wealth of specialist knowledge so we are reliably prepared to help you navigate the most complex and challenging projects.