Claire Waring
Claire specialises in residential development and strategic land.
About Claire
Claire has worked in real estate for over twenty five years and specialises in strategic land and residential development. Claire advises on all aspects of both instant and strategic land acquisition, development, disposal and promotion. Claire’s clients include developers, promoters, land owners, land pool trusts, local authorities and Registered Providers.
Claire Waring provides exceptional client service; she is diligent and always in high demand.
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Experience
Claire's expertise includes:
- complex conditional contracts
- fixed and variable price contracts
- option agreements
- promotion agreements
- hybrid agreements
- development agreements
- golden brick contracts
- overage agreements and variations
- landowner collaboration agreements
- land assembly
- equalisation
- joint venture agreements
- escrow agreements
- control strips
- deferred payments and legal charges
Claire has acted for:
- a developer in a tripartite transaction involving the acquisition of a site from Homes England and the development and sale of a proportion of the units to a Registered Provider. The development works were carried out under a building lease with the freehold being transferred in phases at practical completion.
- a developer in a complex multi party conditional acquisition of land surrounding Leamington Spa train station. The transaction involved site assembly and the relocation and development of a new out of town bus station.
- a developer in the multi million pound sale of serviced parcels to two PLC housebuilders.
- a Registered Provider client on the conditional long leasehold acquisition of a landmark vacant office building in Stratford Upon Avon. The site was redeveloped to provide an award winning private rented scheme.
- a Registered Provider client in connection with the conditional acquisition of the section 106 affordable housing on a high profile brown field regeneration site in Swindon. The developer is a building society which is building homes again for the first time in over one hundred years and the scheme attracted national press coverage.
- a Registered Provider client on four separate joint venture agreements with a private developer.
What others say:
- Legal 500 2023: Claire Waring is “excellent - recommended for her vast amount of intellect”
- Chambers UK 2023: “ Very knowledgeable and easy to work with. Claire is able to come up with practical and commercial solutions to often complex situations”
- Legal 500 2022: "Claire Waring has time to explain matters and is always available. She makes you feel like a valued customer"
- Chambers UK 2022: "Claire Waring is approachable, knowledgeable and helpful"
- Legal 500 2020: "Claire Waring helped me through a very complicated property deal and she was excellent. She very much takes the approach of working together and is good at providing strategic advice as opposed to just legal opinions"
- Chambers UK 2020: Clients hold Claire Waring in high regard, noting that "she is responsive and able to explain legal matters in plain English"
- Chambers UK 2015: Claire Waring "doesn't miss anything; she is incredibly focused and an absolute pleasure to work with"
- Chambers UK 2013: Claire Waring "is extremely efficient, she always answers the phone or returns calls, and her advice is accurate and helpful."
- Legal 500 UK 2012: Claire Waring "is an excellent negotiator"
Career
Claire has a degree in Law with French and qualified with City firm Cameron McKenna. In 1999 Claire moved to the Midlands and joined Wragge & Co in Birmingham. From 2004 until 2008 Claire worked in-house with plc housebuilders David Wilson Homes and Bovis Homes. Claire joined Wright Hassall in 2008 and became a partner in 2010.
"Claire Waring has time to explain matters and is always available. She makes you feel like a valued customer."
