Georgina Henderson

Georgina attended Bournemouth University for her undergraduate degree, and the University of Law in London, before qualifying as a solicitor in March 2022 and joining Rix & Kay’s Commercial Property Team in 2024.

Based in the firm’s Brighton & Hove office, Georgina has experience across a broad range of commercial property transactions ranging from city lease transactions, to sales of agricultural land.

Georgina’s clients

Georgina works closely with both landlords and tenants, to identify and understand their priorities, to enable their objectives to be achieved. She also acts for landowners and those looking to purchase agricultural land, as well as dealing with other rural transactions such as farm tenancy agreements.

Experience and approach

Georgina has an established reputation of guiding her clients through every step of their transaction using plain English. This enables her clients to be confident that they will be kept fully updated as to the position, timescales and cost of their transaction.

Areas of expertise

1. Buying and selling freehold properties with vacant possession, or subject to tenancies, or mixed use properties;
2. Buying and selling (assigning) leasehold properties subject to existing leases;
3. Advising, drafting and entering into new lease;
4. Deeds of Surrender;
5. Deeds of Variation;
6. Deeds of Easement;
7. First Registration of land;
8. Buying and selling agricultural land;
9. Adverse Possession Land Registry applications (non-contentious);
10. Farm Tenancy Agreements.

Some of Georgina’s work

Leases

Acting for various Landlord’s in relation to leasing their warehouse units on an estate.

Acting for Landlord’s in respect of shop units where the freehold title needed to be tidied up in respect of expired registered leases prior to the new lease being entered into.

Acting for Tenant’s in respect of shop units in central Brighton.

Dead of easements

Successfully navigated and completed a tripartite Deed of Easement between neighbours not on the best of terms, in relation to upgraded Septic Tanks to be installed, avoiding the need for contentious litigation.

Property refinancing

Successfully completing a refinancing of a leasehold property subject to underleases, which themselves needed to be renewed and amended in accordance with the lender requirements prior to completion.