Senior Estates Surveyor

Job Switch; Taunton; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A local authorities' council in Taunton is seeking a Senior Estates Surveyor to manage property transfers and disposals, ensuring compliance with regulations while supporting strategic goals. The role includes assessing properties, developing business cases, and overseeing transactions valued up to £1,000,000. Regular travel to various sites around Somerset is required. Ideal candidates should have experience in estate management and a strategic planning outlook.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing property transfers and disposals.
• Understanding of regulatory compliance in property management.
• Ability to assess properties and develop business cases.

Responsibilities

• Manage the council's property transfers and disposals.
• Ensure compliance with regulations in property transactions.
• Oversee transactions to support the council's strategic goals.

Job description

As a Senior Estates Surveyor in the Estates Strategy & Development (ES&D) team, you will manage the council's property transfers and disposals, ensuring compliance with regulations. Your role includes assessing properties, developing business cases, and overseeing transactions to support the council's strategic goals.

You will join the Estates Strategy and Development Team at Somerset Council who are responsible for the strategic management of a portfolio consisting of around 4,000 assets, including 1,300 buildings and 2,300 parcels of land.

The role is responsible for managing, overseeing, and delivering a variety of complex estates casework to achieve strategic objectives for the council, ensuring effective management and development of the council's estate.

Coordinating disposals of non-operational assets through the whole delivery cycle will be a major part of the role from advising on potential values, appointing agents for a broad caseload of real estate transactions acquisitions with self-directed responsibility for individual transactions valued up to c. £1,000,000.

All estates surveying activities are conducted with a long-term planning perspective typically spanning approximately 10 to 15 years for landlord and tenancy management, and extending beyond 30 years for acquisitions, disposals, and development casework.

The role involves regular travel to a variety of sites around Somerset…