Cripps Harries Hall

Sarah Ferguson specialises in commercial property and residential/commercial development. She acts for a wide range of clients including institutional investors, property developers and affordable housing providers dealing with acquisitions and disposals, development/collaboration agreements, leases and general asset management issues.

Expertise

• Commercial property
• Development agreements
• Development
• Leases
• Lease renewals
• Overage
• Property portfolio management
• Property sales and purchases
• Rent review
• Social housing

Memberships

• Women in Social Housing

Career

• Partner, Cripps Harries Hall LLP, 2003
• Associate, Cripps Harries Hall LLP, 2002
• Solicitor, Cripps Harries Hall LLP, 2001
• Solicitor, Rix & Kay, 1998
• Solicitor, Dechert, 1989
• Solicitor, Leigh Williams, 1988
• Trainee Solicitor, Rix & Kay, 1986

• Acting for a developer and housebuilder in joint venture to acquire unconditionally from a utility company a potential urban development site. The transaction was completed in a short timeframe and involved complicated overage arrangements because at the time of acquisition the position and nature of the future development was not known with any certainty
• Acting for a registered charity with regard to the proposed entry into a promotion agreement and conditional contract with a national housebuilder. The agreement included market testing and our advice extended to the obtaining of charitable consents
• Acting for a housing association in conjunction with a City firm in connection with a £150 million facility including involvement in negotiating the loan documentation and dealing with certificates of title for over 300 properties (including individual units and new build developments)
• Acting for a housing association on a joint venture with a top 10 national housebuilder to acquire a site in Kent - we dealt with all aspects of the acquisition including setting up the joint venture and complex planning and stamp duty land tax advice
• Advising a major development client in relation to a number of large urban regeneration projects in partnership with housing associations including dealing with a £60 million regeneration project in the West Midlands and a number of projects in the South East
• Advising a major housing association on a long-term, large-scale development project involving a community interest company in relation to the development of land by a house builder
• Acting for a developer who acquired land that was subject to an option in favour of a housebuilder. The option was allowed to lapse and our client successfully obtained planning consent for a residential development and sold the site to a joint venture in which it retains a stake