Marcus Thorpe Email & Phone Number

Marcus is head of Trethowans' Agriculture and Rural Property Team. He specialises in the sale and purchase of farms, estates and country houses and has extensive experience in this field.Marcus also advises clients on a wide range of issues affecting rural property including tenancies, secured lending, sporting interests, equestrian property and renewable energy.Marcus is top-ranked (Band 1) in Chambers (the independent legal directory), ‘earning an impressive reputation for handling transactional property work that involves complicated trust structures’.Case studies:Sale of a farm in the Chalke Valley with private water supply issues; a shooting lease to reserve shooting for the season; a sub-sale of part; planning issues; SFP & ELS; early entry; tax planning requirements and ‘entrepreneurs relief’.Partition of a major estate in the Test Valley; various ownerships; dissolution of fishing partnership; employee and tenant considerations; liquidation of farming company; disclaiming of an AHA tenancy; option and pre-emption agreements; surrender of rights, licences to fly airplanes; complex continuing rights over adjoining land created; severance of various scheme agreements.Acquisition of a Grade II listed house with Grade II & Grade I listed outbuildings; planning defects; various tenancy issues; river ownership issues; commons rights.

Listed skills include Legal Advice, Estate Administration, Dispute, Powers Of Attorney, and 4 others.