Negotiating planning agreements to safeguard ground and drinking water sources against future contamination arising out of obtaining the retail and commercial development permissions referred to. The Problem Real estate is a valuable commodity, both flexible and adaptable. As an asset, it requires careful management to optimise its potential value and to ensure that it does not become a liability. With it comes attendant rights, liabilities and responsibilities raising property, planning and environmental issues. Central to these issues will be the question of risk.
Risk needs to be identified, assessed, managed, resolved or transferred.
Understanding the risk is as essential as any of the commercial factors influencing the acquisition, development, use, operation, trading in and disposal of real estate. PPE has the proven skill, expertise, experience and depth of resource to offer a totally integrated national and cross border property, planning and environment service, focusing on its core specialist industry sectors of Construction and Engineering, Energy, Infrastructure IT and Healthcare. The firm's strategic international focus upon major projects, involving engineering, construction and technology, along with the increasing emphasis upon privately financed infrastructure development has given Masons an unrivalled track record. Frequently, projects include a strong real estate element or are real estate led. Acting for the Danish pension fund, PFA, joining The Metropolis Fund, a new limited partnership fund, launched by Grosvenor Estate Holdings to manage, in partnership with others, a portfolio of Central London office property which it aims to grow to 500m in the next three years.