Residential Property Paralegal / Fee-earner

JR United Kingdom; Exeter; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading law firm is seeking a Residential Property Paralegal / Fee-earner to join their Exeter office. The successful applicant will manage a caseload autonomously, ensuring high-quality service to clients. Strong drafting and communication skills are essential, along with a minimum of 12 months' relevant experience.

Qualifications

• At least 12 months' experience as a residential property paralegal.
• Ability to run a caseload with minimal supervision.
• Experience in drafting agreements, deeds, and contracts.

Responsibilities

• Running your own caseload from instruction to post-completion.
• Dealing with both sales and purchases of properties.
• Submitting AP1 and SDLT forms, liaising with clients and third parties.

Skills

Excellent drafting skills

Attention to detail

Exceptional communication skills

Client relationship management

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Client:

McKinlay Law

Location:

exeter, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Posted:

04.06.2025

Expiry Date:

19.07.2025

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Job Description:

Job Title: Residential Property Paralegal / Fee-earner

Location: Central London

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

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 12 months’ experience as a residential property paralegal and match the criteria above to be considered. Excellent drafting skills and an attention to detail also needed. 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 more hands on experience and work with more autonomy and responsibility in an established London law firm.

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.