Richard Collins

Richard's expertise includes:

• Investment purchases
• Lease extensions
• New build sales & purchases
• Remortgages
• Sales and purchases
• Shared ownership
• Transfers of equity

Richard's recent work highlights include:

• Acting on behalf of two separate developers in the off plan sale of their leasehold and freehold plots which involve the sale of individual plots on notice and sales of portfolios at auction.

• Acting on behalf of the new purchasers in the assignment of new build contract for an un-built leasehold development from a foreign based seller.

• Acting on behalf of purchasers acquiring bridging finance for new build properties following failed completion. This involved obtaining the entirety of the title information, reporting to the purchaser on their acquisition and complying with the requirements of the bridging finance company in the space of the 10 working days granted from the failed completion to the rescission date.

• Richard has recently been put forward as a the preferred buyer’s solicitor for a number of new-build shared ownership leasehold developments to be purchased under the Help to Buy scheme.