Mark Foxcroft

Areas of Expertise

Mark is Head of Devonshires’ Housing Management & Property Litigation team.

Mark leads one of the largest specialist housing management and property dispute resolution teams in the UK. He advises developers, investors, institutional private sector landlords, major landowners, build-to-rent providers, local authorities, commercial landlords and many of the largest providers of social housing in England and Wales.

Mark’s practice spans the full ambit of housing management and residential and commercial property litigation involving issues of both a contentious and non-contentious nature. He has extensive experience of representing clients in all manner of property disputes in the Property Chamber of the First-Tier Tribunal, the Lands Chamber of the Upper Tribunal and the appellate Courts. Mark provides his clients with strategic guidance on all aspects of legal and statutory compliance, with a focus on emerging legislative changes including leasehold reform and commonhold. A specialist in dispute resolution, Mark has a proven track record managing-high profile contentious matters in and out of court, with a particular focus on leasehold and shared ownership matters. Mark is also known for his expertise surrounding the increasingly complicated interaction between heat network regulation and service charge administration. 

Mark’s early career involved working in-house at one of the UK’s largest registered providers of social housing where he advised on sector-focused legal and compliance issues. Since joining Devonshires, he has established himself as one of social housing’s leading advisors on issues of complex leasehold management. This background underpins his reputation for attention to detail and precise yet pragmatic advice.

Publications

• How can social landlords ensure their heat networks are fit for the future? – Inside Housing, December 2025
• Reimagining the Private Rented Sector – Housing Management & Maintenance, October 2025
• Reforms will reshape rental market – The Negotiator, September 2025
• Leasehold reform: implications for social housing providers – Social Housing, August 2025
• Housing providers urged to put processes in place as new fire door requirements come into force – Fire Industry Association, January 2023
• Social landlords must be prepared for new regulations on flat entrance fire doors – Inside Housing, December 2022
• Proposed social rent cap could slow building safety works – housing associations – Barnet Times Series, October 2022
• Mulalley and Hyde cladding case: what lawyers think the ruling means for the sector – Inside Housing, July 2022
• Shared ownership leases: managing costs and charges through the initial repair period – Social Housing, March 2022

Directories

Mark is recognised as ‘Up and Coming’ in the Chambers UK Legal Guide where he was described as follows:

“very smart and experienced in social housing. He has very good judgement.”

“provides an excellent service and encourages his team to do the same.’

Mark is ranked as Practice Head in Property Litigation (London) in the Legal 500 as well as the firm’s Tier 1 ranking in Social Housing (London).

The Legal 500 describes him as:

“always responsive to our needs, understands where we are as a business and provides us with advice and information that we will need for decision making on specific questions or issues, sometimes even if we haven't specifically asked for it, because he knows it will be relevant to our decision.’

“ thorough and knowledgeable, especially when it comes to building safety and the complex structure of leases. Fabulous to work with; always collaborative.”

Conferences

Mark regularly speaks at and chairs sessions at property-focused conferences nationwide and is available to provide training and thought leadership on topical issues across all aspects of housing management and real-estate litigation.

Qualifications

Mark originally trained as a Barrister before completing his QLTT and cross-qualifying as a Solicitor in 2013.

Professional Memberships

Mark is a member of the Property Litigation Association, National Leasehold Group and Chartered Institute of Housing.