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Later Living

Legal advice for the later living sector.

Specialist later living lawyers

Providing age-restricted homes for those who wish to live independently and, if needed, a variety of tailored support and care options, through to care homes and integrated retirement communities, the later living sector is an integral part of the housing sector. Our later living lawyers provide expert legal services to support housing developers, care providers, and retirement housing associations in navigating legal complexities.

It plays a crucial role in addressing the diverse needs of an aging population, offering safe, comfortable, and well-designed living environments that promote well-being, social engagement, and a sense of community.

Our services

We have been helping our clients in the retirement living sector:

Our dedicated Developer sector team acts for housebuilders, commercial developers, registered providers, and land promoters, with an enviable track record in large-scale development, redevelopment, and regeneration projects.

We have experience dealing with disposals of care homes on wider developments and portfolios of care home disposals.

Completing Site Set Up for residential development sites in readiness for plot sales. Working closely with the acquisition team, our plot sales team undertakes a full assembly of all the legal paperwork required for a conveyancing sale. Be that the precedent legal documents such as contract and transfer/lease, title documents, planning and infrastructure agreements, registering plans at the Land Registry to achieve estate plan approval, advising on management company set up, and all other relevant documents depending on the nature of the development.

Acting for clients on disposals of the plot sale units with repeat property instructions and working effectively to reach crucial deadlines for exchanges and completions, understanding the position of those buying within later living developments.

Working on transformational change projects to ensure that employees/workers have the correct working arrangements in place to meet the needs of the service in the most effective manner.

Delivering management development training to people leaders to motivate, engage, and retain key workers as well as reduce risk.

Drafting and negotiating contracts for construction, renovation, repair, and maintenance works, including framework agreements, consultant appointments, sub-contracts, collateral warranties, and letters of reliance, as well as deeds of variation/novation.

We have a specialist new homes team who provide private individuals with a first-class, value-for-money service in their new build plot purchase. We are referred by major developers and registered providers across many sites, demonstrating strength in our offering. We also have expertise in acting for buyers in later living developments, shared ownership transactions, Help to Buy schemes, and alternative saving arrangements such as Lifetime ISAs.

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Advice and representation at all stages of the Coroner’s Inquest, including: • Responding as an ‘Interested Person’ • Preparing witness statements/exhibits • Representation at Pre-Inquest Review Hearing and the final Hearing.

Advising about the regulatory framework for registered providers, as well as responding to actual or threatened intervention by the CQC, for example in relation to issuing statutory notices and/or prosecution.

Disputes are an inevitable part of any business, introducing unwanted risk and high stress. They also create a distraction that takes you away from what you do best and where you need to be. Let us help your business get the results it needs with expert legal services in dispute resolution.

Why choose Foot Anstey?

Our later living lawyers are passionate about the delivery of later living developments as a benefit to the community, residents, and also as a way to unlock much-needed housing stock back into the market. Our later living team works closely with clients to provide strategic legal advice and solutions tailored to the later living sector.

We ensure we work with clients to understand the nuances of their business to provide them with tailored legal advice for their operations, whether tax, corporate, regulatory, or employment-related. We also collaborate with our real estate, planning, EPIC, real estate disputes, and plot sales team experts to deliver exceptional legal services for successful schemes in the later living sector.

Our people

We have a dedicated team of experts with extensive experience in advising developers, housing associations, care home providers, independent living providers, service providers, and charities on the specialist needs of their sector.

Our later living team understands your sector, enabling your business to maximise opportunities while minimising risk in the retirement housing market.

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