Residential Developers

Matthew Arnold & Baldwin LLP has a unique and highly successful New Homes Department. The department has been established for some years now and has achieved a reputation for being the leader in its field. The team specialises in acting for buyers on new housing developments (as well as acting for developers on plot sales).

Benefits to the Developer:

• We are familiar with the time pressures involved. Achieving an exchange of contracts within these is rarely a problem.

• If we are involved in a large number of plot purchases then your sales staff need only make one call to check up on all of these, so saving them time. We are happy to agree a reporting system that will even dispense with the need for this. This will release your sales staff to do what they do best: sell houses, i.e. not spend ages on the phone trying to track down elusive solicitors.

• We already act for a number of developers and are therefore familiar with typical legal problems encountered in estate development. We are happy to work very closely with your solicitors to resolve any problems at an early stage in the development. We have very good relationships with many developers’ solicitors. This will make your legal side run smoother, easier and quicker. We won’t make a mountain out of a molehill!

• We have invested in state of the art computer and IT systems enabling us to process a large volume of sales and purchases in the shortest possible time. We also have access to internet services to speed up the buying process.

• We believe in working closely with the developer. We welcome the opportunity to meet with you, your sales team and your solicitors at an early stage in the development to agree documentation, iron out problems and discuss the benefits of recommending Matthew Arnold & Baldwin.

• We are experienced in acting in plot purchases, sales, part exchanges and sales on. We are happy to look after first time buyers, experienced house movers and investors.

• We are a long established, very reputable firm. A recommendation to use us will reflect well on you as it will give confidence to a buyer that they are in safe hands. Buyers will receive a first class service at a very competitive price.

• We are a large firm with recognised Quality systems equivalent to ISO 9001. We are on the panel of all major lenders, and most smaller ones, and familiar with their requirements. A sale will not falter because the buyer’s lender will not instruct us.

• We have invested in good quality and sufficient numbers of staff. Buying a house can be stressful and we make sure that all your buyers are well looked after at all times. Being well staffed means that, unlike many firms, there is no deterioration in service during holiday periods or at crucial times such as financial year ends.

Our success is no accident. We work very hard to give a good, safe service to both clients and developers. We have found that many developers are keen to involve us in many of their sites. Quite often it is the developer inviting us to participate in a site rather than the other way around. Many of the buyers recommended to us are so satisfied with the service that they come back to us in years to come when they move on or have other legal requirements.

We look forward to working with you.