Real Estate

Using deep industry knowledge and foresight to help you grasp real estate opportunities and generate value over the long term.

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With the evolution of technology and sustainability as influential value generators, the real estate world is transitioning. Change is accelerating with new and emerging uses along with the need to repurpose and regenerate outmoded buildings.

We understand how real-world and future requirements are essential to long-term real estate strategies. Our deep industry knowledge, foresight, and understanding of real estate assets can help you identify prospects for business growth while anticipating risk.

We can support you in navigating a complex and changing market, in grasping opportunities, building competitiveness, and ensuring that assets deliver value over their lifetime.

With more than 600 lawyers worldwide, our team has helped to shape real estate markets across the globe. From real estate investments to developments and financings, our group has worked on countless sector-defining deals.

We have advised many leading real estate owners, occupiers, investors, developers, and financiers, always ensuring that we are attuned to their primary commercial objectives and concerns.

We understand supply dynamics, changing business and societal cultures, and the demand for modernized assets.

Along with helping you to seize opportunities, we can support you in protecting your market position and mitigating risks, such as cyber threats and geopolitical tension. We can assist you throughout the duration of deal, project, or the lifecycle of an asset.

Our global team can provide you with rounded perspectives and a deep understanding of best practice, by collaborating with you and drawing on the experience of our colleagues around the world.

Building on our full-service approach, we can bring in dedicated lawyers to address specific needs, including funds, planning, construction, tax, finance, and dispute resolution professionals.

We talk your language. Across various asset classes, our team members will always seek to understand your objectives and concerns, ensuring we deliver a client-focused, commercial, and end-to-end service.

Hotels and Leisure

Planning, Zoning and Land-use

Real Estate Development

Real Estate Investment

Real Estate Litigation and Disputes

We can assist you with all your property portfolio needs, including acquisitions, head office relocations, and litigation claims. We understand the challenges of effective property and portfolio management, ensuring that we always focus on our clients’ commercial objectives.

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We know the industry with extensive experience in the acquisition, disposal, development, structuring, and financing of thousands of hotels, resorts and other leisure venues. Our global and multi-disciplinary team can work with you to see the bigger picture while focusing on the specific detail, putting your objectives first and ensuring positive outcomes.

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We cut through the complexity in planning, zoning, and land use. We understand that key factors such as sustainable development and use of space are transformational in targeting long-term value for all stakeholders. Whether you are an investor, developer, or occupier, we can work with you to maximize the potential of your assets through robust and forward-thinking strategies.

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We understand real estate developments, from market-defining projects through to smaller innovative and niche matters. Our fully integrated team can help you with planning to procurement, delivery, letting, and disposal, ensuring that each stage of an asset’s lifecycle generates value for you and all stakeholders.

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Fully embedded within the industry, we have a background in complex and high-value real estate investments through to smaller-scale deals. Having advised many of the world’s largest real estate investors, we can help you navigate a transforming market, whether it is direct or indirect investments, whether you are looking to establish a fund or joint venture, or whether you are seeking a portfolio acquisition or sale. Our deep understanding of the asset class means that we can help you identify opportunities and anticipate specific challenges.

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Disputes are an inevitable consequence of a complex world of geopolitical tension, economic uncertainty and regulatory change. We can help you anticipate and address potential disputes before they escalate. We will always prioritize your business relationships, ensuring that your disputes are handled sensitively, putting your commercial objectives at the heart of our strategic thinking. We can assist you with using dispute resolution methods to assert your rights and seek a competitive advantage, without jeopardizing your market reputation or key relationships.

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Our capabilities at a glance

600

Real estate lawyers worldwide

Hear from our clients and industry leaders

Full service firm with strength across the board. Partners are all top-notch and stay involved in the deals.

Legal 500 UK 2025 Commercial Property: Investment (client quote)

Hogan Lovells superbly handles sophisticated and complex real estate transactions and provides exceptional representation.

Chambers USA 2025, Real Estate (client quote)

Renowned for its ‘top-class’ service, Hogan Lovells International LLP undertakes high-value and complex real estate work, advising on major development schemes, strategic corporate headquarters relocations, offshore energy transitions, and leasing structures.

Legal 500 UK 2025, Commercial Property

The lawyers at Hogan Lovells are really excellent. When it comes to difficult deals where you need lots of structure and expertise, I get in touch with them.

Chambers Germany 2025: Real Estate (client quote)

Hogan Lovells demonstrates remarkable strength in its ability to deliver thorough, detail-oriented work.

Chambers USA 2025, Real Estate (client quote)

Hogan Lovells US LLP‘s real estate practice draws on extensive experience in every aspect of real estate law across a wide range of asset classes, to provide clients with advice on how to meet their operational and investment goals.

Legal 500 USA 2025, Real Estate

The property litigation team at Hogan Lovells are at the top of their game. An extremely effective group of litigators. The quality of partners and associates is consistently high; there are no weak links in this team.

Legal 500 UK 2025 Property Litigation (client quote)

Hogan Lovells navigate commercial structures with skill and have been very effective at creating the legal protections we need.

Chambers UK 2025, Real Estate: £150 million and above (client quote)

The ability of the Hogan team to swiftly comprehend a wide range of matters and pinpoint key elements within the factual matrix is truly impressive.

Chambers UK 2025, Real Estate Disputes (client quote)

Hogan Lovells' advice always keeps their clients' overarching goals in focus, maintaining a comprehensive perspective and pointing out other relevant aspects beyond the legal sphere.

Chambers Germany 2025, Real Estate (client quote)

A collaborative and energetic team, who clearly care about their clients and projects. They are able to provide clear advice quickly, whilst considering the cost efficiencies that a client will be seeking.

Legal 500 UK 2024, Commercial Property: Investment (client quote)

The team will go beyond what is necessary to understand the people and projects. They are enjoyable to work with.

Legal 500 UK 2024, Commercial Property: Development (client quote)

A cohesive and hardworking team of individuals who are rightly recognised as leaders in their field. The partners complement each other well, in terms of personality and also focus and expertise.

Legal 500 UK 2024, Real Estate Disputes (client quote)

Key contacts

Daniel (Dan) Norris

Partner

Daniel (Dan) Norris

Partner

London

Lea Ann Fowler

Partner

Lea Ann Fowler

Partner

Denver

Jeffrey R. Keitelman

Partner

Jeffrey R. Keitelman

Partner

Washington, D.C., New York

Dr. Dirk Debald

Partner

Dr. Dirk Debald

Partner

Hamburg

Mathew Ditchburn

Partner

Mathew Ditchburn

Partner

London

Meet the Real Estate team

Representative experience

M&G on numerous transactions including the acquisition and development of the £1.4bn Leadenhall Triangle in London, and major deals across Continental Europe.

Resorts World New York City, the city’s only casino-hotel, in the submission of its bid for a commercial casino license to the New York State Gaming Commission — a key step toward advancing its proposed US$5.5bn expansion. The 5.6 million-square-foot project would transform RWNYC into a world-class integrated resort featuring entertainment, gaming, dining, recreation, and public amenities.

Ascendas REIT on its €555m acquisition of a portfolio of 11 data centers across Europe (United Kingdom (UK), France, the Netherlands and Switzerland) from Digital Realty Trust.

Groß & Partner on the sale of the FOUR T1 skyscraper in Frankfurt. With a purchase price of €1.4bn, this is the largest single property transaction and the most expensive high-rise building in Germany to date.

The joint venture between Cirrus Workforce Housing and LCOR Incorporated in connection with the redevelopment of the long-vacant Flushing Airport site in Queens, New York — a major milestone in the city’s effort to address its housing crisis. The transformative project will bring approximately 3,000 new residential units to the College Point neighborhood, with units ranging from deeply affordable to market-rate housing, with a focus on middle-income New Yorkers.

The Crown Estate on its Offshore Wind Leasing Round 4 process involving six proposed new offshore wind projects in the waters around England and Wales.

Commerzbank on leasing 73,000 square meters in the Central Business Tower in Frankfurt. The green lease signed by Commerzbank and Helaba Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen, as the developer and owner of the high-rise, has a term of 15 years. Commerzbank will become the first and main tenant of the Central Business Tower from 2028.

Hines on the acquisition of four build-to-rent residential buildings comprising 531 homes in the Cuatro Vientos neighborhood of Madrid.

Related Argent on a major £8bn mixed-use redevelopment project in Brent Cross South, London. The scheme has been described as one of the most ambitious regeneration projects in London in living memory.

Union Investment on the acquisition of the Motel One portfolio, the acquisition of Barceló Hotels in Hamburg and Barcelona, and the acquisition of Hampton by Hilton Warsaw City Centre and Radisson Blu Hotel in Poland.

Awards and recognitions

Real Estate Practice Group of the Year

Law 360

2021, 2022 and 2023

Real Estate Legal Team of the Year

The British Legal Awards

2023

UK Real Estate Legal Team of the Year

Estates Gazette Awards

2023 and 2021

Best in Industry – Law Firm of the Year

Commercial Real Estate Brokers Association

2025

Top authors for real estate thought leadership

JDSUPRA Readers’ Choice Awards

2025

Top Tier for Real Estate Development, Corporate Occupiers and Real Estate Disputes

Legal 500 UK

Top Tier for Real Estate law

JUVE

2025

Top law firm for Real Estate

WirtschaftsWoche 2024

2024

Resources

Reimagining Real Estate Hub

Reimagining Real Estate: successful strategies for a changing real estate landscape, including how to accommodate new, emerging uses, and how to address obsolescence of existing buildings

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Politics of Housing Hub

Politics of housing: insights into how governments are working with the real estate sector to meet housing demand now and in the future

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Microgeneration Hub

Microgeneration and the future of energy: identifying opportunities for investment in localized energy generation, including dealing with legal complexities across the value chain

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Real Estate

Using deep industry knowledge and foresight to help you grasp real estate opportunities and generate value over the long term.

With the evolution of technology and sustainability as influential value generators, the real estate world is transitioning. Change is accelerating with new and emerging uses along with the need to repurpose and regenerate outmoded buildings.

Explore our capabilities