Kathryn Wood Legal Director

Kathryn Wood

Kathryn is a real estate development lawyer with an established reputation in the housebuilding sector. She understands the issues that are integral to delivering a successful residential development project and sees her role as supporting her clients from the bid stage right through to the sale of the final home and adoption of infrastructure on a site.

Based in Leeds, Kathryn has a wide experience acting for national and regional housebuilders, social housing providers, land promotors and landowners on all aspects of the acquisition and disposal of land for residential-led development and the sale of new build homes.

Experience

• Advising several national and regional housebuilders in connection with the purchase of serviced residential land on former colliery sites in South Yorkshire and North Derbyshire.
• Acting for Barratt and David Wilson Homes in the purchase of Harworth Estates' largest ever serviced residential land sale by number of plots, at Waverley.
• Leading a multi-disciplinary team of lawyers acting for a registered provider acquiring a back to back contractor led-scheme in North Yorkshire.
• Acting for a registered provider in connection with a portfolio sale of supported housing (75 properties on four different schemes across the North West and Yorkshire), the sale being an important component of a stock rationalisation programme for the client.
• Working with housebuilders on bulk disposals of affordable housing.
• Providing support to site set-up, infrastructure and plot sales teams.