Liam Floodgate

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Liam Floodgate

Partner Housebuilders & Residential Development

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About Liam

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Liam advises on a wide range of property development transactions for major housebuilders, SME developers, promoters and landowners. He has particular expertise in residential development, strategic land and logistics.

Liam regularly advises on complex option/promotion agreements, conditional contracts involving deferred/staged payments, overage and build-to-rent (BTR)/affordable housing disposals.

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  • Leading our team acting for a master developer on the sale of five development parcels in Wokingham for circa £65m.
  • Advising Chartway Partnerships Group on a deal with Packaged Living to forward-fund the delivery of 121 new homes in Ebbsfleet, Kent, with a gross development value of approximately £50m.
  • Advising on a deal with Legal & General and Chartway to deliver 92 single family rented new homes in Hastings.
  • Acting for a developer on the acquisition of a £40m site in south west England for the development of over 500 residential units and a care home.

Liam's insights

    • Insights
    • Apr 10, 2026

    Clarified guidance from HMRC on VAT treatment of overage

    Please note that this article only considers VAT issues in relation to overage payments – there are other tax issues which also need to be considered, which are beyond the scope of this article. Key Takeaways For housebuilders, overage can

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    • Insights
    • Jan 20, 2026

    Termination clauses: start as you mean to finish

    What happened? The Seller, Henley Developments, obtained outline planning permission for a residential development site in Ebbsfleet, Kent and exchanged contracts to sell one of the development parcels to Weston Homes for £14,500,000. Weston Homes paid a 5% deposit on

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    • News
    • Jan 11, 2022

    New homes quality board (nhqb) code of practice

    The NHQB is an independent body established in February 2021 for the purposes of developing a framework to oversee reforms in the build quality of new homes and the customer service provided by housebuilders in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and

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