New four-year deal will be 60% larger than existing iteration

Homes England has started a search for law firms to fill places on an expanded £47m legal services framework.

The four-year national framework will replace the housing quango’s existing £30m legal services framework, which runs out this year.

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Law firms have until 21 March to bid for the four-year deal

Launched in 2018, the current framework hosts 13 suppliers including Trowers & Hamlins, Pinsent Masons and Ashfords.

The new, larger, framework will see a total of 23 suppliers appointed, with firms having until 21 March to send in bids.

It features three £15m lots for routine real estate and investment, specialist real estate and corporate, and bespoke and complex projects. A fourth lot for affordable housing and homes ownership has a value of £2m.

Legal work is expected to focus on development and construction, planning, contracts, intellectual property, procurement and joint ventures.

Homes England set out details earlier this month of two new funding pots for housebuilders designed to support the government’s levelling up agenda.

The pots include a £1.5bn Levelling Up Home Building Fund, which will provide loans of up to £250m for builders struggling to secure commercial loans.

A separate Home Building Fund, which has an unspecified value, is designed to pay for infrastructure and enabling costs needed to get schemes off the ground.

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