Anna Austin

Solicitor and Associate Director

Commercial Property Law

Location: Yeovil

Anna leads the firm’s Commercial Property Team and is an Associate Director based in our Yeovil office. She has spent over 20 years acting for clients across a wide range of commercial property sectors including private commercial, public, financial and charitable. Whilst Anna has experience dealing with a broad spectrum of commercial property transactions, her caseload is largely made up of development and landlord/tenant work.

Anna qualified as a solicitor in 2004 and she focusses exclusively in helping clients with Commercial Property Law. She was promoted to Associate Director in Feb 2025.

Anna enjoys acting for a wide range of clients including landowners, developers, SMEs and commercial landlords and tenants both in the West Country and nationwide.

Examples of cases Anna has worked on include:

  • Acting for local landowners in connection with promotion agreement and onward sale to a national housebuilder for residential development;
  • Acting for a developer operating across the whole of the south-west in relation to both large and small development schemes;
  • Acting for a number of property investors/professional landlords with regard to the commercial letting portfolios;
  • Acting for landowners in connection with the grant of options for lease of land for solar development.
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“Anna was approachable & efficient thank you”

C Campbell

“My experience was one of professionalism that I would expect of a solicitors. I was very pleased with Battens and their staff.”

B. Hampshire

“Anna Austin and Cathy Jack were brilliant in sorting a complex land problem speedily and simply. We have used Battens for years, for differing legal matters, and always 100% satisfied.”

AWM

“Very good experience with Austin and Cathy Jack. Anna was efficient, knowledgeable and understanding...”

G Cooper