Joint venture development projects

Specific protection for landowners

Our wide experience can help put a complicated (often 40-60 page) agreement together maximising the landowner’s involvement and possible return, while minimising future uncertainties and risk of unexpected adverse tax consequences.

Without specific protection it is all too easy for you as a landowner expecting to be taxed on what you see as a capital gain (current rate 28%), to find that you are being taxed as if it were income (current rate 45%).  It does not take many acres for values (and tax bills) to be in the millions.

We will be considering and advising you on your position at all stages of the overall scheme. Furley Page’s support – working closely with your own tax adviser – can save you money and make you money.

Why choose Furley Page for advice on joint ventures

We would be involved with you and exclusively for you in the following stages of a typical multi-landowner promotion agreement:

• Due diligence on the promoter
• Ensuring common scheme for both or all landowners
• Promoter seeking allocation in local authority local plan
• Promoter seeking planning permission for allocated land
• Marketing and sales
• Scheme for sharing proceeds between landowners
• Payments to promoter
• Provision of infrastructure
• How to deal with land for which allocation and planning permission is not obtained