Chambers UK - A Client's Guide to the UK Legal Profession refers to the property department of Dawsons as providing a service to clients that is "efficient and thorough at reasonable prices".
We have built on this reputation and the department has expanded significantly, responding to the increasing demand for the services we provide to both our established and new clients. Our clients recognise our commitment, flair and dedication demonstrated by our communication skills and working efficiently and cost effectively to achieve our clients’ objectives. We consider a personal service to our clients and their representatives to be fundamental.
We work closely with Dawsons’ tax, litigation and commercial departments, combining with their considerable skills and experience, to produce a quality service for our clients.
The department handles a very broad range of work for a wide and varied number of commercial and private clients. Our clients include developers, housing associations, landed estates, Church denominations, UK and overseas banks, numerous and diverse businesses such as a national firm of surveyors, a major rural charity and a number of other schools, colleges and charitable organisations a London NHS Trust, , and a number of overseas and offshore investment/trading companies, as well as many private individuals with property interests both home and abroad.
The department has acknowledged expertise in all aspects of property law including:
- Development and construction
- Environmental
- Tax
- Finance
- Housing associations
- Charities
- Residential
- Management and landlord and tenant
- Leasehold enfranchisement
- Commercial
- Minerals and waste
- Planning
- Investment portfolio acquisition
- Agricultural
- Options and conditional agreements
- Settled Land Act
- Housing Act legislation