Claire McSorley
Claire McSorley
Legal Director, Real Estate
Claire works within the Real Estate department, her areas of responsibility include:
Site acquisitions – options; conditional contracts or unconditional contracts; overage deeds; Legal Charges and mortgage related work;
Planning agreements – either Unilateral Undertakings or Agreements with the Council;
Utility Company Deeds – to grant rights for cables/drains, etc in favour of the relevant utility companies;
Plot Sales – including drafting the contracts, transfers and leases (as appropriate) for the development; acting on the sale of each new build unit.
Landlord and Tenant – acting for both Landlords and Tenants with a particular emphasis on dealing with healthcare facilities.
Lease Extensions/Enfranchisement – acting for residential freeholders and leaseholders in the grant of Lease extensions and the acquisition/sale of the freehold reversion.
Claire is a keen sports fan; she likes to keep fit by regularly attending the gym and enjoys watching live sport – she can often be found in Guildford supporting Surrey Heath (Basketball) or Guildford Flames (Ice Hockey). Claire is also an avid reader and hopes to write a novel one day!
- Acted for a Tenant taking a lease of premises in a mixed use development which is in the process of being built.
- Acted for a local landowner in the sale of a mixed use (commercial/residential) site which involved various leases and tenancy agreements and contamination issues.