Job Description
Job Title Conveyancer (PX)
Closing Date 12-Jan-2023
Position Full Time - Permanent
Business Entity Gateley Legal
Department Residential Development
Location Birmingham - United Kingdom
Job Type Experienced Hire
Description
We are a legal and professional services group, with over 580 professional advisers. We support more than 5,700 active clients, ranging from FTSE 100 companies to private individuals, in the UK and beyond. We proudly won 'UK Law Firm of the Year' at The British Legal Awards 2019.
Forward thinking and straight talking, our approach is to find solutions to the problems that our clients face.
The Team
Nationally the Residential Development team acts for all of the top 10 housebuilders in all regions of the UK. Our highly regarded national plot sales team is responsible for selling around 5% of all new home plots in the UK.
The Role
We have a rare opportunity for an experienced residential conveyancer to work on a permanent basis within the part exchange team of our residential development unit in Birmingham.
This role would suit a residential conveyancer with at least five years' experience of running a caseload of general residential property and part exchange files. It is fundamental that you can run a transaction from initial instruction, completely unaided.
The successful candidates will be responsible for dealing with a wide range of transactions including, Leasehold and Unregistered properties bought and sold by way of part exchange by national housebuilders as part of their plot sales procedure.
This conveyancing role will involve drafting and sending out part exchange paperwork, dealing with pre-contract enquiries, reviewing and reporting on title and searches, negotiating and exchanging contracts and dealing with completions. It will also include necessary post-completion formalities, including SDLT and Land Registry registrations.
Our clients require Part Exchange transactions to be dealt with quickly and efficiently. The caseload will reflect these quick turnaround times.
Key Skills & Experience
Personality fit is critical for this role and our successful candidate will be a very personable, enthusiastic and confident individual who has an ability to quickly form strong and trusted relationships with a valuable client. He/she will also demonstrate the following attributes:
Five years' residential conveyancing experience
Excellent commercial acumen
Good communication skills
Team player
Ability and willingness to learn
Attention to detail
Organised with time and documents
Ability to prioritise
Proactive approach towards work
Good IT skills
Discretion and professionalism
The successful candidate will have their own workload, be able to work with minimal supervision, manage their own time and work well under pressure.
Diversity, Inclusion and Well being
Diversity, inclusion and well-being is an important part of Gateley's culture and values.
We recruit talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, providing equal opportunities for all to join our team regardless of age, sex, race, sexual orientation, disability, or culture.
We create an exciting and rewarding place to work that aims to fulfil everyone's potential and together to achieve personal and business goals. We offer flexible working patterns to help our staff achieve a good work/ life balance and we encourage candidates seeking flexibility in their next role to apply for any of our vacancies.
We are proud to have been recognised by The Law Society as gold standard for our Diversity and Inclusion Charter and to be Stonewall Diversity Champions.
Additional Information
If you are successful in receiving an offer of a role with our company a variety of pre-employment screening checks will be completed. Our screening checks can include but are not limited to your eligibility to work, professional and academic qualifications, any criminal records, your financial stability and references from previous employers. The screening that takes place will be relevant to your role and will vary from role to role.
Closing Date 12-Jan-2023
Position Full Time - Permanent
Business Entity Gateley Legal
Department Residential Development
Location Birmingham - United Kingdom
Job Type Experienced Hire
Description
We are a legal and professional services group, with over 580 professional advisers. We support more than 5,700 active clients, ranging from FTSE 100 companies to private individuals, in the UK and beyond. We proudly won 'UK Law Firm of the Year' at The British Legal Awards 2019.
Forward thinking and straight talking, our approach is to find solutions to the problems that our clients face.
The Team
Nationally the Residential Development team acts for all of the top 10 housebuilders in all regions of the UK. Our highly regarded national plot sales team is responsible for selling around 5% of all new home plots in the UK.
The Role
We have a rare opportunity for an experienced residential conveyancer to work on a permanent basis within the part exchange team of our residential development unit in Birmingham.
This role would suit a residential conveyancer with at least five years' experience of running a caseload of general residential property and part exchange files. It is fundamental that you can run a transaction from initial instruction, completely unaided.
The successful candidates will be responsible for dealing with a wide range of transactions including, Leasehold and Unregistered properties bought and sold by way of part exchange by national housebuilders as part of their plot sales procedure.
This conveyancing role will involve drafting and sending out part exchange paperwork, dealing with pre-contract enquiries, reviewing and reporting on title and searches, negotiating and exchanging contracts and dealing with completions. It will also include necessary post-completion formalities, including SDLT and Land Registry registrations.
Our clients require Part Exchange transactions to be dealt with quickly and efficiently. The caseload will reflect these quick turnaround times.
Key Skills & Experience
Personality fit is critical for this role and our successful candidate will be a very personable, enthusiastic and confident individual who has an ability to quickly form strong and trusted relationships with a valuable client. He/she will also demonstrate the following attributes:
Five years' residential conveyancing experience
Excellent commercial acumen
Good communication skills
Team player
Ability and willingness to learn
Attention to detail
Organised with time and documents
Ability to prioritise
Proactive approach towards work
Good IT skills
Discretion and professionalism
The successful candidate will have their own workload, be able to work with minimal supervision, manage their own time and work well under pressure.
Diversity, Inclusion and Well being
Diversity, inclusion and well-being is an important part of Gateley's culture and values.
We recruit talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, providing equal opportunities for all to join our team regardless of age, sex, race, sexual orientation, disability, or culture.
We create an exciting and rewarding place to work that aims to fulfil everyone's potential and together to achieve personal and business goals. We offer flexible working patterns to help our staff achieve a good work/ life balance and we encourage candidates seeking flexibility in their next role to apply for any of our vacancies.
We are proud to have been recognised by The Law Society as gold standard for our Diversity and Inclusion Charter and to be Stonewall Diversity Champions.
Additional Information
If you are successful in receiving an offer of a role with our company a variety of pre-employment screening checks will be completed. Our screening checks can include but are not limited to your eligibility to work, professional and academic qualifications, any criminal records, your financial stability and references from previous employers. The screening that takes place will be relevant to your role and will vary from role to role.
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