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Tim Hardesty

Tim Hardesty

Work Department

Real Estate

Position

Tim is a Partner in the real estate team. Tim has particular expertise in residential development work both for developers and landowners. He regularly deals with land acquisitions and disposals by way of unconditional or conditional contracts and options, also strategic option agreements. Experience/recent projects: acting for a regional developer in a complex purchase of a development site with an anticipated built value of £20m by way of a conditional agreement, sub sale and a further development agreement for an additional part containing off-site affordable housing. Acting for a national developer in the grant of a long term option agreement and subsequently after planning obtained for 290 houses acquiring the development site. Acting for a waste management company acquiring a disused airfield and industrial units near the south coast. Acting for trustees selling a development site for approximately £7m in Elmbridge including initially preparing the land for sale by hiving off the surplus land from the part of the site still used and then negotiating a complex conditional agreement with a national developer for the surplus land.

Career

Trained Herrington Carmichael; qualified 2001; Real Estate department Herrington Carmichael; partner 2004; head of department 2010 to date.

Education

St Edward’s School, Oxford (1989); University College, London (1993 BA Hons); College of Law (1999).

Leisure

Visiting historic houses and art galleries, and playing golf and tennis.

Mentions

Real estate • South East

Commercial property: Hampshire