Residential Property Paralegal

JR United Kingdom; London; Hybrid; GBP 34,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading law firm in Central London is looking for multiple positions, including a Residential Property Paralegal and a Post Completion Administrator. The Paralegal will manage a caseload and handle both sales and purchases of properties, requiring excellent drafting and client communication skills. The Post Completion Administrator will assist with all aspects of post-completion processes, seeking candidates with experience in high-volume caseloads and a proactive approach.

Qualifications

• At least 6 months’ experience as a residential property paralegal.
• Experience in post-completion work.
• Ability to deal with high-volume caseload.

Responsibilities

• Running own caseload from instruction to post-completion.
• Dealing with sales and purchases of properties.
• Preparing and filing SDLT forms.

Skills

Excellent drafting skills

Attention to detail

Client focused

Exceptional communication

Education

Completed or undertaking LPC

Job description

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Job Title: Conveyancing / Residential Property Paralegal x2

Location: Central London

Hybrid: 3 Office / 2 Home

A commercial, forward thinking law firm are looking for both a residential property paralegal (with fee earning experience), and a post-completion administrator to join their team and deliver a high-quality service and care to the firm’s established client base.

Residential Property Paralegal:

Salary: to £40,000

You will be running your own caseload from instruction to post-completion and dealing with both sales and purchases of properties. As you will be running your own caseload (with some supervision) you must be able to hit the ground running with the ability to deal with the full residential transaction.

Key duties will include:

• Submitting AP1 and SDLT forms
• Drafting reports on title
• Liaising with clients and third parties (mortgage lenders etc.)
• Dealing with enquiries
• File opening
• Companies House Registrations
• File closing including matter balances
• Scheduling of deeds to mortgage lenders
• Drafting agreements, deeds and contracts
• Reviewing and reporting on title

It is essential that you have at least 6 months’ experience as a residential property paralegal and excellent drafting skills, attention to detail and be client focussed. Exceptional communication and client skills are also essential as you will be expected to build rapport and relationships with established and new clients and act on your own initiative. You must also be able to conduct searches with minimal supervision.

Excellent opportunity for a residential property paralegal to gain hands on experience and work with more autonomy and responsibility in an established London law firm.

Post Completion Administrator:

You will be covering all aspects of post-completion processes for the residential team.

Duties will include:

• Preparing and filing SDLT forms
• MR01 registration with Companies House
• Registrations via the Land Registry portal
• Preparing and serving Notices on completion
• Placing Indemnities on risk
• Being pro-active chasing other party’s solicitors and/or dealing with Land Registry’s requisition(s)
• Scheduling deeds and documents to lenders and clients

It is essential that you have experience in post-completion work, have completed (or are currently undertaking) the LPC and have experience in working with a high-volume caseload. Progression available for the right candidate as although it will be strictly administrative to start with, the firm will look to progress the successful candidate into a full paralegal role in time.

McKinlay Law endeavour to contact all successful candidates within 24 hours. However, due to the volume of applications that we receive, we are not able to respond to every candidate individually. If you have not heard from us within 24 hours your application has been unsuccessful and we have not retained your details.