Tola Balogun

Tola is a Real Estate lawyer with over 12 years’ experience in all aspects of residential property, landlord & tenant, commercial real estate, property development, and property portfolio management.

Prior to joining Lawhive, Tola trained and qualified as a Solicitor with a top 40 UK law firm where he worked for over 7 years. He then worked with two top 50 UK law firms, before working at a Legal 500 UK law firm as a Senior Associate.

EXPERTISE:

Residential Property:

• Freehold and leasehold sales and purchases, with a particular focus on new-build residential properties
• Shared ownership sales and purchases, including Do-It-Yourself-Shared-Ownership (DIYSO)
• Shared equity (Help-to-Buy) sales and purchases
• Transfers of Equity and matrimonial transfers
• Title Splitting to create freehold or leasehold titles
• Re-mortgages
• Right to Buy purchases
• Auction sale and purchases (residential)
• Unregistered land and first registration
• Lease extensions, Deeds of Variation, and Deeds of Surrender & Regrant of Lease

Commercial Property:

• Acquisitions and disposals of commercial property
• Commercial leases
• Sale and purchase of development property/land, with or without conditions (including multiple plot sales/purchases at Golden Brick)
• Option Agreement
• Deed of Easement
• Auction sale and purchases (commercial)

Landlord & Tenant:

• Drafting new leases, and lease renewals, in accordance with changing legislation
• Asset portfolio management
• Wayleave Agreement
• Lease extensions and Deeds of Variations
• Licences (to alter, underlet and assign)
• Enfranchisements

Tola commits to negotiating the best possible agreements and solutions for clients, whilst providing timely advice to save costs. His clients commend his ability to target the crux of matters very early, to avoid delays and provide a tailored personal service.

Tola is based in London but acts for clients throughout the UK.