Real Estate

Strategic, pragmatic real estate advice across the whole asset life cycle. We help clients unlock value, manage risk, and achieve commercial goals worldwide.

Real estate is a dynamic sector shaped by shifting markets, regulatory changes, and evolving investor priorities. Clients need clear, strategic advice to unlock value, manage risk, and respond quickly to new opportunities and challenges.

Whether acquiring a single asset or managing a diverse portfolio, we provide guidance that is pragmatic, commercially focused, and tailored to our clients’ ambitions. Many face complex structuring, financing, and regulatory demands, and want to optimise returns throughout the asset’s life cycle - from acquisition and development to management and disposal.

Our team supports investors, developers, fund managers, and corporates at every stage. Drawing on decades of sector experience and a network of over 60 lawyers in London and Paris, we deliver advice that is practical and forward-looking. Clients benefit from our ability to coordinate cross-border transactions, structure joint ventures, form funds, secure financing, and resolve disputes. We work closely with clients and their other advisers, combining legal insight with commercial understanding to deliver efficient, effective solutions.

‘

Stephenson Harwood sees right through the complexity and is able to distil it in a way that makes it easy for us to understand.’

Chambers UK 2025

Clients choose us for our deep sector knowledge, collaborative approach, and proven track record advising on complex, multi-jurisdictional matters. With access to our network of firms, clients can be confident that we have a global perspective.

Awards and Recognition

Latest News & Insights

Real Estate Funds | Legal Services
Real Estate

Cladding conundrum – who pays? …more issues stemming from the Building Safety Act 2022

Find out more
Carousel Images2
Projects, Energy & Infrastructure

Partner John Danahy joins Stephenson Harwood

Find out more
Carousel Images6
London

VietJet and the enforcement of security assignments: what does the latest case law mean for lenders?

Find out more
Carousel Images6
Dispute Resolution

Rights of light update: Cooper v Ludgate House, Powell v Ludgate House [2025] EWHC 1724

Find out more
Carousel Images1
Finance

UK hydrogen funding – are the taps finally being turned on?

Find out more
Carousel Images11
Real Estate Finance

Bad Boy Guarantees – whatcha gonna do?

Find out more
Carousel Images12
Real Estate

Demystifying decarbonisation: Energy Performance Certificates

Find out more
Carousel Images1
London

Stephenson Harwood lawyers named in Thomson Reuters Stand-out Lawyers list

Find out more
Carousel Images3
Funds

How revealing? Don't leave holes in your replies to enquiries

Find out more
Carousel Images4
News

Stephenson Harwood promotes twelve to partnership

Find out more

Get the latest updates from our Real Estate team

Subscribe