Conveyancer

Gilson Gray LLP; Lincoln; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 58,000; Full time

Job summary

A legal firm in the UK is looking for experienced residential conveyancers for their Lincoln office, focusing on providing exceptional customer service and expertise in property transactions. The role involves managing all aspects of residential conveyancing, from liaising with clients to ensuring compliance with legal regulations. This position offers hands-on experience from day one and supports career growth within a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in residential conveyancing, including leasehold and freehold.
• Excellent communication skills for client interaction.
• Familiarity with compliance, anti-money laundering, and risk assessments.

Responsibilities

• Communicating daily with clients and other parties involved.
• Managing property transactions from start to finish.
• Updating clients on the progress of their matters.
• Ensuring compliance with relevant regulations.
• Liaising with other parties’ solicitors, brokers and estate agents
• Managing property transactions, including freehold and leasehold sales and purchases, New build and Shared ownership
• Updating clients on progress of matter
• Checking mortgage offers and searches
• Title checking and reporting to clients
• Raising and signing off the enquiries
• Maintaining Due Diligence and Risk Assessments per firm policies
• Ensuring compliance with anti-money laundering and data protection regulations
• Exchanging contracts and completing the transaction

Skills

Client communication

Case management

Residential conveyancing

Relationship building

Compliance knowledge

Job description

Gilson Gray’s Conveyancing team are part of Gilson Gray’s continuingly growing organisation. Gilson Gray LLP are a comprehensive law firm, offering expert legal, property and financial services. We support clients throughout their entire lifetime. The Conveyancing team have decades of experience in all types of transactions and can advise on every Conveyancing related situation.

Based in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Dundee, North Berwick, Lincoln and London we focus on ensuring we provide the highest level of advice and on-going service to our clients. We are ambitious and have significantly grown the team over the course of the last year. We pride ourselves in looking after our clients personally and providing the upmost standard of service.

This role will be based in our Lincoln office. We also have home-based opportunities available.

Our Team

We are looking for outstanding residential conveyancers to help us deliver exceptional customer service, embrace smarter ways of working and build a culture where expertise, collaboration and ambition thrive. To lead the way for the next chapter at Gilson Gray we want conveyancers that are looking for more than just a role, we want people that to be part of a meaningful change.

We are an enthusiastic team that support each other in order to achieve a great working environment. We value each other’s expertise and opinion and pride ourselves in offering an inclusive, enjoyable and motivating place to work.

The Role

We are looking to further strengthen our current team with the appointment of an experienced candidate.

What makes this role special is a hands-on experience from day one! You will be:

• Communicating with clients on a daily basis, dealing with matters over the phone, email or in person
• Updating branches and building relationships with our referrers
• Updating and maintaining a case management system
• All aspects of residential conveyancing including leasehold and freehold
• Liaising with other parties’ solicitors, brokers and estate agents
• Managing property transactions, including freehold and leasehold sales and purchases, New build and Shared ownership transactions, remortgages and transfers of equity from inception until post completion
• Updating clients on progress of matter
• Checking mortgage offers and searches
• Title checking and reporting to clients
• Raising and signing off the enquiries
• Maintaining and checking Due Diligence and Risk Assessments in line with the firms’ policies
• Ensuring compliance with anti-money laundering and data protection regulations
• Exchanging contracts and completing the transaction