Gateley 2026 Spotlight

With a team of more than 600 property and construction specialists across 28 offices, professional services group Gateley supports clients at every stage of the built environment lifecycle – from planning and acquisition, through to the development of built assets, and management and monetisation of property.

Gateley combines the expertise of legal professionals with the technical skills of its complementary consultancy businesses under one roof to seamlessly deliver full-service solutions for the built environment.

• Gateley Legal: The legal team at the heart of professional services group Gateley, providing straight-talking advice on a spectrum of construction, planning, residential and commercial development and real estate dispute resolution matters.
• Gateley Hamer: Specialist surveyors advising on compulsory purchase, on-site utilities, compensation and diversions, infrastructure development, telecoms services, land referencing and public inquiries.
• Gateley RJA: Chartered surveying consultancy offering a range of services, including quantity surveying, employer’s agent, project management and clerk of works across the private rented and affordable housing, commercial and insurance sectors.
• Gateley Smithers Purslow: A multi-disciplinary surveying, engineering and architecture practice specialising in services to the insurance claims market, resolving high-value and complex loss claims for insurers, policyholders and their advisers, as well as works for public and private sector clients.
• Gateley Vinden: Built environment specialists providing a comprehensive range of services, including dispute management, quantity and building surveying, project management, fund monitoring and insurance services across the residential, commercial, education and leisure sectors.

Gateley’s built environment teams operate across a broad range of sectors, with particular strength in: 

• Housebuilding: Gateley Legal acts for 18 of the top 20 housebuilders in the UK, on either a regional or national scale, and handles approximately £2.5bn worth of residential plot sales per year.
• Specialist residential including: Social housing, later living, purpose-built student accommodation and Build-to-Rent.
• Offices and corporate occupiers: Saving occupier clients, on average, more than 83% on exit liability costs.
• Regeneration and partnerships.
• Health, social care and education.
• Industrial and logistics.
• Data centres.
• Building safety.
• Hotels, retail and leisure.

As a result of combined expertise and strong relationships across the sector, Gateley is well positioned to help clients navigate complexity, unlock value and deliver successful property, construction and regeneration projects from concept through to completion.