Stephen McColgan

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ABOUT STEPHEN MCCOLGAN

In three words:\"I build houses.\"Stephen joined Acuity Law at the start of October 2021. He qualified as a solicitor nearly 40 years ago having studied law at Bristol University and at what is now the University of Law in Guildford. He has been a Partner in a variety of transactional property roles based in Bristol and Somerset with national law firms Clarke Willmott, Davies and Partners and Michelmores.Stephen’s passion and expertise are in advising landowners, developers and investors in residential led and mixed-use schemes. He has experience working with several of the top 10 PLC housebuilders including on significant town extensions with multi-million-pound land assemblies; with medium sized SME design led housebuilding entrepreneurs to realise their projects; and for land owners, particularly those unfamiliar with the development process, to help them understand transactions with developers and investors to add value leading to sales of development land.The promotion of land, disposal, acquisition, preparation for development through the planning process and arranging the infrastructure and utilities agreements are within Stephen’s remit together with the site set up preparations for disposal whether as a serviced site or individual plot sales.As well as being experienced in secured acquisition and development finance from UK and foreign banks and investors, Stephen has successfully advised SME housebuilders in securing finance from Homes England.