Residential Development Lawyer

Womble Bond Dickinson; Southampton; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Womble Bond Dickinson in Southampton is recruiting a Solicitor to join our expanding Residential team. You will specialise in high-value residential development work, working for leading national and regional housebuilders and affordable housing providers.

You will lead transactions from the outset, supervise colleagues, and play a key role in client relationships, business development, and maintaining the team's reputation for quality and service.

Qualifications

• Qualified as a UK (England & Wales) Solicitor with conveyancing and development experience.
• Experience in residential development and affordable housing advantageous.
• Experience managing and progressing own transactions and supporting larger transactions.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support on residential development work for national and regional housebuilders and providers.
• Manage and progress transactions from outset; mentor junior team members.
• Develop business opportunities across the sector and build client relationships.

Skills

Residential development

Affordable housing

Client management

Mentoring juniors

Business development

Education

Qualified as a UK solicitor (England & Wales)

Job description

Our Residential team is one of the largest of its kind. We support our clients on a range of projects across the Living Sector. We act for PLC; regional; and SME house builders; registered providers of affordable housing; land promoters; and PRS investors & developers in respect of residential, residential-led mixed-use developments and settled stock portfolios and buildings.

We now have an exciting opportunity for a Solicitor to be based out of our Southampton office.

What will you be doing?

Within this sector we are seeing significant growth. We already have an impressive list of major clients and panel appointments. Successful candidates would join a high profile team with the best exposure to high value development and settled stock work available which will include conditional contracts and transfers, conditional options, advising on rights of pre-emption, collaboration agreements and development agreements, with a focus on high value residential development and investment projects.

Leading and supporting on excellent quality Residential development work for leading national and regional housebuilders and affordable housing providers, taking a proactive role in helping build and maintain client relationships. Running transactions at the appropriate level from the outset or assisting more senior team members on more complex transactions providing key exposure to the breadth of work undertaken and client base for who the work is undertaken. You will also play a key role in supervising and mentoring others in the team to deliver those transactions for our clients. You will be given opportunities to get involved in business development activity across the sector.

What does the ideal candidate look like?

This is a fantastic opportunity to work with a talented and enthusiastic residential team who will be as invested in your career development as you are. You will have experience of residential development work gained from a large regional or city firm. Most importantly we need to see your enthusiasm for this area of law and your understanding of the service we offer.

You'll be joining a growing, busy team where you'll play an integral part in the delivery of some of the UK's most exciting residential developments for premier clients. The work is fast paced and challenging but the team are collaborative and enjoy what they do, which makes for a positive working environment.

To be successful in this role you'll need as a minimum:

• Be qualified as a UK (England & Wales) Solicitor.
• Experience in residential development and affordable housing would be advantageous, commercial property experience will also be considered.
• Experience of managing and progressing your own transactions and effectively supporting on larger scale/more complex transactions.

What makes it great to work here?

We continually work hard to create an open culture that sets us apart from other firms. Our culture gives us much more of a human feel and has helped us earn the Great Place to Work® certification in the UK, based entirely on feedback from our people. Recognising our commitment to creating a high-trust workplace where people feel valued, supported and empowered to succeed.

As signatories to the Mindful Business Charter, it's important to us that our people are able to maintain healthy and happy lives, both in and out of work. We have a number of resources and initiatives designed to support health and wellbeing and we're very happy to talk flexible working.

Through our DEI initiatives we create an environment in which difference is valued. We have an Diversity, Equity and Inclusion team and an Inclusive Recruitment Lead, who all work with our colleague networks (we currently have firm supported networks for race, ethnicity, and cultural heritage, LGBTQ+, disabilities, neurodiversity, families, and women's career development and we're in constant dialogue with our people about how we expand our networks to better support everybody). Find out more about . We encourage applicants from all social backgrounds, ethnicities, disabilities, gender identities and sexual orientations.

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