Zoë Longman
Director
“Zoë is a senior professional of the highest calibre. She is hugely experienced, sensitive to the client’s position and that of the counterparty, and works incredibly hard to secure the optimal outcome.”
Chambers UK, 2024
About
Zoë is head of the firm’s Residential Real Estate team, specialising in the sale, purchase, mortgaging and de-enveloping of high net worth residential properties and advice on enfranchisement and lease extension claims. She specialises in complex residential property transactions for private individuals, on- shore and off-shore companies, family offices, trust structures, UK and overseas banks and other financial institutions and has particular experience in the prime London market, and further in the Home Counties, the Cotswolds, and Devon and Cornwall prime residences.
Zoë is ranked as a National Leader (Outside London) in Band 1 of Chambers & Partners 2024 for High Value Real Estate and leads the firm’s residential real estate team, which have been ranked as Band 1 National Leaders (outside London) by Chambers & Partners since this category commenced.
Experience
- Overseas resident client: Sale of a £26 million property in Belgravia.
- Private client: Sale of a highly sought after £7.5 million coastal property in Cornwall.
- Private client: Purchase of a spectacular and unique penthouse apartment in Chelsea for £14 million.
- Private Client: Hampstead townhouse sale £9.5 million.
- Private Client: Purchase of a Cotswold grade II country house for £5 million.
- The Crown Estate: advising on matters relating to property that may be subject to escheat.
Credentials
- Admitted as a solicitor: England & Wales (1993)
- LLB (Hons), Bristol University