Home office: London
Anita Rasaratnam is a partner specialising in affordable housing development, with more than 15 years’ experience advising registered providers, developers and local authorities on complex development and regeneration projects. She is recognised for her commercial, pragmatic approach and her ability to deliver transactions efficiently while maintaining strong relationships between stakeholders.
Anita advises on a broad range of affordable housing matters, including land-led acquisitions, Section 106 acquisitions, turnkey and golden brick transactions, development agreements, joint ventures, strategic land projects and stock rationalisation programmes. She has particular expertise in managing complex transactions involving planning, infrastructure, funding and development risk.
Clients value Anita’s ability to understand both the legal detail and the wider commercial objectives of a project. She is known for providing practical solutions, strong negotiation skills and clear advice that helps clients manage risk while progressing transactions successfully.
How Anita can help you
Anita advises registered providers, developers and local authorities on affordable housing acquisitions, regeneration projects and development transactions, helping clients deliver new homes while managing legal and commercial risk.
Anita advises clients on:
- Affordable housing acquisitions, including land-led, Section 106, turnkey and golden brick transactions.
- Development agreements, joint ventures and complex conditional contracts.
- Strategic land, option and promotion agreements.
- Estate regeneration and redevelopment projects.
- Stock rationalisation programmes and portfolio transactions.
- Due diligence and risk management for registered providers and affordable housing developments.
Experience
- Advising a registered provider on a landmark £104 million development project delivering more than 1,000 new homes across Wigan, involving planning, title and infrastructure challenges.
- Acting on large-scale bulk acquisition programmes for registered providers involving complex multi-plot structures and affordable housing delivery requirements.
- Advising on the regeneration of a Grade II-listed former war rooms building, balancing heritage considerations with residential and commercial development objectives.
- Supporting a registered provider on a redevelopment programme with an estimated value of £35 million, involving existing housing stock, garage sites and obsolete accommodation.
- Acting on an £11 million acquisition of 74 affordable homes through a complex sub-sale and development structure.
- Advising a G15 housing association on the £45 million disposal of a commercial site involving deferred consideration and security arrangements.