Lesley Gray

Lesley is a Senior Associate in our Real Estate team.

She has over 20 years’ experience dealing in a broad range of real estate matters such as acquisitions disposals, banking and leasing.

Lesley specialises in site acquisitions and disposals for housebuilders, developers and registered social landlords which involves negotiation and drafting of development agreements, purchase and sale contracts and dealing with any planning issues.

She has expertise in reviewing and resolving complex title issues and ensuring that the site has all necessary title rights to facilitate development, which includes drafting and negotiation of deeds of conditions, deeds of real burdens, planning agreements and servitudes for access and utilities.

She also regularly acts for banks (including an ethical lender and crowd funding lenders) in lending transactions and acts for commercial clients in refinancing deals. In addition to this, she has acted for purchasers in investment deals for retail and mixed-use developments.

Lesley also acts for commercial landlords and tenants in relation to commercial leases and all aspects of lease management.

Lesley takes pride in building strong relationships with her clients. She focuses on what matters to the client and provides sound and practical advice.

Experience

Lesley has recently completed the following projects:

• Purchase and finance of a large industrial site in South Lanarkshire for a commercial client.
• Sale of the Orrs Building in Airdrie on behalf of Wilson Developments (Orrs) Ltd.
• Purchase of an office investment building in Glasgow city centre.
• Purchase and onwards sale of a site for private and affordable housing which included resolving complex title issues.
• Acting for a crowd fund lender in order to finance a social housing project on the isle of Arran.