Firm appointed
The Vale of Aylesbury Housing Trust has appointed the firm as its sole supplier of legal services.
Social housing
“They are thorough and know what they're doing.”
Chambers and Partners 2018
“Blake Morgan's impressive group has a strong understanding of the housing sector.”
Legal 500 2017
Our Social Housing team provides expert advice on all issues including development, procurement, shared ownership, Right to Buy, charging, housing management, commercial contracts, governance, data protection, care and employment.
Main areas of practice
The Social Housing team lawyers are leaders in their field and provide specialist advice in the following areas:
- Housing management
- Development, development agreements and site acquisitions
- Joint ventures
- Infrastructure, recipient and nomination agreements
- Grant funding
- Planning, including s106 agreements
- Sales, leaseholds and shared ownership sales
- Right to buy/acquire
- After sales (including flexible tenure staircasing and shared ownership resales)
- Anti-social behaviour
- Service charges & disputes
Clients
Our clients include:
- Peabody Housing Association
- Clarion Group
- Optivo
- One Housing Group
- Network Homes
- Hyde Group
- Agudas Israel Housing Association Limited
- North Hertfordshire Homes
- Vale of Aylesbury Housing
- Vivid
- Radian Group
- Aster Group
- Pobl Group
- Pennaf Group
- Melin Homes
- Coastal Group
- Wales and West Housing Limited
Significant experience
Our social housing specialists have advised on a wide variety of issues. Examples include:
- Charitable issues in connection with conversion to a housing association.
- A housing association's contractual arrangements for the provisions of accommodation and care services.
- Refinancing of portfolios for housing associations.
- Launching of a new Residential Property Management product offering fixed fees for routine tenancy advice.
- Development of a service charge recovery service for housing associations.
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Related Knowledge & Resources
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Press Release
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