Brabners LLP’s social housing team is co-headed by Josephine Morton, who leads the contentious housing management team, and Helen Brown, who specialises in large-scale site acquisition and assembly projects. The team offers comprehensive legal advice across acquisitions, disposals, grant funding, property advice, securitisations, and home ownership conveyancing. The firm excels in housing management and litigation, handling disrepair claims, anti-social behaviour, tenant breaches, possession proceedings, injunctions, and Equality Act challenges. Ian Alderson manages contentious housing and commercial disputes, Rupert Gill advises on M&A and governance, and Peter Barlow advises on strategic property matters. Andrius Roos specialises in home ownership and Lisa Robotham on developments and securitisations.

Forbes Solicitors’ social housing practice is structured into specialist sub-teams, each led by an expert in their field. Catherine Kennedy heads the housing and regeneration property team, focusing on complex development and funding matters, stock rationalisations, acquisitions, charging projects, joint ventures, and large regeneration schemes. Siobhan Hardy leads the housing and regeneration litigation team, specialising in housing condition and liability claims. Shirley Faragher oversees anti-social behaviour and housing management, while Daniel Milnes leads governance, procurement and information with extensive experience in social housing governance and procurement. Jonathan Holden heads the employment team. The practice supports councils, housing property and litigation clients, with a particularly strong anti-social behaviour team, including Kirsty Varley.

Trowers & Hamlins LLP’s social housing team advises on development, governance, mergers, funding, regulation, and grants. Suzanne Benson heads the team, specialising in major projects, including regeneration and homeownership products. Melanie Comer focuses on property security for housing finance transactions. Richard St John Williams advises on affordable housing, governance, and mergers and Sam Coward is an expert in residential leasehold management and disputes. Ru Anwar handles landlord and tenant matters and PFI restructuring, and Louise Robinson advises on stock rationalisations, acquisitions, and estate management. Lynn James and Darren Ashworth departed the firm in 2024.

Anthony Collins Solicitors LLP’s social housing team, led by Lucy Worrall and Suzanne Gregson, provides governance, property, development, leasehold, housing management, and litigation advice. Worrall specialises in development and regeneration, advising housing associations on site acquisitions, s106 agreements, and shared ownership. Gregson offers specialist litigation and management advice to social landlords. Other key figures include Tom Starkey who focuses on development, regeneration, and asset management, and Catherine Simpson who advises on governance and regulatory matters.

Clarke Willmott LLP’s social housing team is led by Lindsay Felstead, who advises on complex claims against registered providers, Equality Act matters, and non-contentious tenancy agreements and policies. Lynn James, who joined from Trowers & Hamlins LLP in March 2024, focuses on leasehold management, service charge disputes, and regulatory matters, as well as specialising in breach of tenancy, discrimination claims, and housing ombudsman complaints. James Driver and Harriet Atkin advise on cladding claims and construction litigation, and Matthew Wilson handles disrepair claims and prosecutions. Harriet Killeen also comes recommended.

MSB Solicitors’ social housing team, led by Louise Murphy, Andrew Moore, Andrew Fairman, Amy Tagoe, and Thomas Stockton, provides advice to housing associations, local authorities, and public sector bodies. They advise on consumer regulations, affordable housing, regeneration projects, governance, sustainability, and green housing. Murphy focuses on ASB, disrepair, and possession proceedings. Fairman specialises in compliance litigation, safety, and Net Zero initiatives, and Moore advises on technical land disputes, service charges, and ASB. Tagoe handles complex possession, injunctions, and homelessness cases, and Beth Hyams focuses on housing disrepair matters.

The social housing team at Weightmans LLP provides advice on housing management, development, and regeneration. Sian Evans leads the team, specialising in possession cases, ASB injunctions, and estate management, including squatters and disrepair. Jennifer Hankinson, joining in January 2025 from Capsticks LLP, focuses on residential development and regeneration. Karen Neald handles housing management disputes, trespasser removals, and disrepair matters. Beth Williams advises on property acquisitions for housing development, including package deals and s106 agreements. Joshua Stolberg represents social and private landlords on possession claims, ASB injunctions, succession disputes, and defending deposit and disrepair claims.

Capsticks LLP’s social housing team, led by Paul Lloyd, offers advice across housing management and property matters. Lloyd specialises in possessions, injunctions, and ASB work, and Natalie Hurst handles disrepair claims, tenancy disputes, succession, and property issues. Francesca James advises on property transactions for registered providers, local authorities, and investors. Tom Bradbury focuses on possession and hoarding cases, and Sabina Patel provides expertise in property sales, acquisitions, and development agreements.

Clyde & Co’s social housing team advises landlords, brokers, and insurers on developing policies to minimise registered providers’ exposure to disrepair claims, with a strong focus on possession proceedings. Matthew Lowry has particular expertise in housing disrepair, civil injunctions, and possession cases arising from ASB and tenancy breaches.