Laura Conduit

Spear’s Review

Farrer’s personable head of property Laura Conduit entered our index thanks to high praise from peers and agents alike, who credit her specialist practice with covering all aspects of residential property matters.

With particular experience in fast-paced deals, she credits her speed to the network of contacts she’s built up and maintained since qualifying in 2008, as well as her relationships with clients and ‘most of the top operators’ in the industry. ‘It makes the transactions so much easier,’ she says. 

Sought after in both acquisitions and sales, Conduit notes that her team likes to be involved ‘as early as possible’ in a transaction, ‘so that we’re not on the back foot because we haven’t got the [plans and consents] that were issued 10 years ago’.

Adviser Profile

Laura is a residential property partner, dealing with sale, purchase and mortgage transactions. She deals with all types of residential property, whether freehold or leasehold, town or country, but has a great deal of experience in the prime central London market. Laura enjoys a fast-paced deal and has an excellent track record for exchanging transactions under pressure. 

Laura focusses on buying and selling both leasehold and freehold residential property, with values from £25,000 to £30 million-plus. Her clients include UK and overseas-based individuals, and she is happy to guide those less experienced with the UK residential conveyancing process. She regularly acts for trusts and companies, whether UK or offshore structures. 

Together with the firm’s corporate team, Laura has acted for numerous clients in relation to the sale and purchase of companies holding property assets. She is regularly instructed on lease extensions, licences for alterations and negotiating other documents such as tenancy agreements and assured shorthold tenancies. 

Laura also has experience in acquisitions and disposals of development sites and acts for private banks and alternative lenders on a range of property finance matters, including development finance. She is experienced in acting on insolvency transactions, acting for receivers and lenders on the disposal of distressed properties. 

Laura enjoys coordinating the whole transaction, working with buying and selling agents, valuers, surveyors, lenders and others. She delivers an efficient and friendly service, working within the tight timeframes that transactions of this nature often demand.