Stock transfers
Our stock transfer team is headed by Peter Hubbard. Peter heads our housing management team and also acts for several national registered social landlords. We believe our commitment to regeneration and our breadth of experience sets us apart from other law firms in this field.

Our experience
Our experience of stock transfers goes way back far before large scale voluntary transfers ("LSVTs"). This is because our wish to work with communities to improve estates led us to become heavily involved in the early development of the community association model which is along very similar lines to an RSL transferring body in constitutional terms, particularly as regards tenant and local authority involvement. We are, therefore, well aware of the need to deal with matters in a way which reflects the partnership nature of the transferring body - a partnership in particular between tenants and the Council.

Our experience led us to provide legal editorial work for the Chartered Institute of Housing's Good Practice Guide on Local Housing Companies. We were on the Guide's Steering Group, which included senior representatives of the DETR and the Housing Corporation. Consequently, our knowledge of local housing companies is excellent.

Our personnel have excellent experience of large scale transfers of properties including traditional LSVTs, trickle transfers, housing association transfers of engagement and multi property transfers in the commercial sector. We are well used to drafting all the relevant documentation and handling the associated negotiations. We advise extensively on TUPE, DETR consents and registration with the Housing Corporation.

The requirements which private sector funders will demand are also very familiar to us, having acted both for lenders and for community and housing association borrowers in negotiating complex facility agreements with lenders that include the Halifax, National Westminster Bank, Nationwide Building Society, Morgan Grenfell, United Bank of Kuwait, Britannia Building Society and the Housing Finance Corporation.

The firm has substantial knowledge of negotiating with and obtaining the necessary consents from DETR, the Housing Corporation and the Charity Commission on both projects and the formation of policy. We have successfully done this on many occasions.

We have the necessary staff and other resources to meet the challenges of the task within the time scales required by Councils and RSL transferring bodies. In short, we believe that Anthony Collins Solicitors can offer an effective, experienced, value for money legal team to work on stock transfers to the benefit of all stakeholders.

For further information about community regeneration issues, please call Stephen Belling on +44 (0)121 212 7420 or email stephen.belling@anthonycollins.com

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