Peter Hardy

Expertise

Peter is a partner in the firm's real estate group and has been at the firm for 30 years and a partner since 1999. He is a highly experienced commercial real estate specialist with particular expertise in dealing with development, investment and public sector work. Peter acts for a number of residential developers and investors in a broad range of advice in respect of residential property. Peter has a particular interest in the Build to Rent sector having advised clients in respect of it for a number of years. Peter also has specialist expertise over many years in the health and education, especially further and higher education, sectors. He also advises clients on investment into affordable housing. Another area of work that Peter is closely involved with is long income investment including commercial ground rents, credit tenant leasing and income strips, both for existing schemes and new developments.

Peter's clients he acts for include Aviva, Royal London, Pensions Insurance Corporation, Just Retirement, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, THAT Group, United Colleges Group, the University of Brighton, Bouygues Developments and Plenary.

Peter is a regular public speaker and contributed the real estate chapter to the Company Acquisitions Handbook published by Bloomsbury.

Experience

Dandara Limited on the £400m development funding of a 2,000 residential unit, three sites in Manchester, Birmingham and Leeds for the Build to Rent Sector with funding coming from HSBC and the Homes and Communities Agency and subsequent sale of the sites to an investor
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust on the development of two major new hospital facilities on the St Thomas' campus in Lambeth, one via public procurement and one avoiding the need for public procurement
Aviva as forward funder of student accommodation and office schemes and income strip transactions
Bouygues Developments on the development and funding of 800 rooms of student accommodation for the University of Brighton, funded by means of a forward funded income strip method
HUB Residential on the acquisition, development and forward funding of residential PRS schemes in Wembley and Croydon.

Publications

Contributed the real estate chapter to the Company Acquisitions Handbook (published by Bloomsbury) 8th 9th and 10th Editions

Professional memberships

BPF Development Committee
The British Hospitality Association PRS Committee

Build to Rent Report 2019

Britain's Quality Rental Market

How has the BTR market evolved? We discuss the new emphasis on service delivery and how the planning system finally recognises that BTR is different from build for sale.

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