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The Hyde Group and Sovereign Housing Association have completed a stock swap involving more than 1,400 homes.

The Hyde Group and Sovereign Housing Association have completed a stock swap involving more than 1,400 homes.

Congratulations are in order for L&Q. It has been announced that Trafalgar Place has won the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) National Award.

Two Housing associations based in the South of England, The Hyde Group and Mount Green Housing Association, have swapped ownership of over 300 tenanted homes. We acted for The Hyde Group in this matter.

We acted for The Hyde Group in connection with the purchase of 283 homes from Town & Country.

We advised The Hyde Group in connection with a successful consortium bid, with Mount Anvil, to be a member of a TfL panel to develop TfL sites.

We advised L&Q New Homes on a joint venture with the Anderson Group to build 600 homes on the site of the former Erith Quarry, in Bexley.

We advised L&Q New Homes on the acquisition of a 51% interest, from Bellway Homes, in a joint venture to develop the 179 hectare former Barking power station.

Devonshires has acted for the National Housing Federation on the new Voluntary Right to Buy Proposal and the reclassification by the Office for National Statistics of housing associations as public bodies.

Devonshires Solicitors have launched a new professional services brand, Devonshires Basements, at an event at the unique and exclusive Home House private members club in Portman Square.

​If a leaseholder reports a repair, for example a problem with the roof, then the landlord will need to consider if it is responsible for the repair works to the building or internal repairs to the leaseholder’s property and how it will be paid for.

We recently reported on the introduction of the vacant building credit (VBC) to incentivise brownfield development on sites containing vacant buildings.