Sangeeta Somchand

Partner & Co-Head of Commercial Real Estate

Background & Biography

Sangeeta is Co-Head of our Commercial Real Estate department, and an experienced property solicitor specialising in development, commercial real estate, and ancillary Landlord and Tenant Act work. She acts for a range of property developers around the South East and has wide experience in industrial site acquisitions, infrastructure plot sale work and landlord and tenant management work including statutory lease renewals.

Career Highlights

She has developed a reputation in residential development plot sale work with a particular specialism in office to residential conversions and mixed user schemes. She deals with all aspects of the transaction from the initial site acquisition, the set-up of the scheme and the off plan sales during the development process.

Sangeeta has a very loyal following of clients in the residential sector and has substantial experience in undertaking domestic conveyancing which very much compliments her vast commercial property and landlord and tenant work.

Acted in the purchase of several sites for commercial development for B1/B8 use.

Acted on the purchase of 30 off plan plots for residential development for future assignment and sub-sell to end users.

Sale of an investment property subject to a lease to a major trampoline business.

The acquisition of a 10.34 acre site, with a GDV of £25m, dealing with the sales and lettings of Phase 1 comprising of 35 commercial units with the construction of Phase 2 well under way.

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