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Rachel Langley

Managing Associate


Career & Experience

Rachel specialises in residential property development and affordable housing. She has extensive experience in advising on all aspects of development projects from beginning to end and regularly deals with the negotiation of complex development agreements, conditional contracts and overage agreements in the context of affordable and private housing development schemes across the country.

Rachel is known for her collaborative, dedicated and efficient approach and is dedicated to providing clients with understandable and commercially focussed legal advice, even on the most complex transactions.

Rachel understands her clients’ needs in terms of board reassurance, charging and onward plot sales so that the process is as smooth as possible for her client’s sales team. She likes to find practical solutions to tricky issues and to see a site coming through the process to deliver much-needed homes.

Accolades

  • Noted in Legal 500 for social housing work
People

Rachel Langley

Managing Associate


Career & Experience

Rachel specialises in residential property development and affordable housing. She has extensive experience in advising on all aspects of development projects from beginning to end and regularly deals with the negotiation of complex development agreements, conditional contracts and overage agreements in the context of affordable and private housing development schemes across the country.

Rachel is known for her collaborative, dedicated and efficient approach and is dedicated to providing clients with understandable and commercially focussed legal advice, even on the most complex transactions.

Rachel understands her clients’ needs in terms of board reassurance, charging and onward plot sales so that the process is as smooth as possible for her client’s sales team. She likes to find practical solutions to tricky issues and to see a site coming through the process to deliver much-needed homes.

Accolades

  • Noted in Legal 500 for social housing work

Expertise

  • Residential development specialist
  • Social housing
  • Regeneration and land economics
  • Freehold acquisitions and disposals
  • Renewable energy
  • Leasehold estate management
  • Insolvency
  • Leading on the acquisition of 143 dwellings for an RP for £23.2m
  • Advising a large RP on the acquisition of 117 units across two schemes for £30m
  • Acting for a joint venture in the acquisition of numerous development sites in Cornwall
  • Advising a regional developer on the conditional acquisition of three development sites for open market, private rent and shared ownership (311 homes)

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‘We largely deal with Rachel Langley. Rachel epitomises what we look for in a law firm – she is friendly and personable, but also extremely professional and knowledgeable. She is pragmatic and understands the risks we are willing to tolerate and what our non-negotiables are, and her recommendations are always well considered and explained.’

Legal 500 UK 2025

“Rachel is very pragmatic, a great communicator and very knowledgeable.”

Chambers and Partners UK 2025

“Rachel provides robust and comprehensive advice.”

Chambers and Partners UK 2025

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