Senior Real Estate & Development Associate – Bristol

Chadwick Nott; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

Training and development

Competitive salary

Job summary

Chadwick Nott is representing a top 100 UK law firm seeking a Senior Associate or Managing Associate to join their Bristol office, specialising in Housebuilding and Strategic Land. You will lead transactions, manage client relationships and help drive new business across a broad range of residential development matters.

The role covers options, contracts, affordable housing structures and site assembly, with exposure to promotion agreements and mixed-use schemes.

Qualifications

• 3-8+ years’ PQE in residential development, housebuilding or strategic land work
• Strong track record acting for housebuilders, developers, promoters and/or landowners
• Excellent technical ability and commercial awareness
• Established and growing client relationships, ideally with contacts in the regional development market
• Experience across options, contracts, affordable housing structures, overage, infrastructure agreements and site assembly
• Exposure to complex strategic land arrangements such as promotion agreements, collaboration agreements, land pooling or mixed use schemes
• Solid understanding of VAT and SDLT issues
• Client focused, ambitious and collaborative approach with confidence to manage high value matters and drive BD

Responsibilities

• Lead role in running transactions day to day and managing client relationships
• Drive new business and contribute to business development
• Manage key matters across residential development including options, contracts and infrastructure agreements
• Oversee site assembly, back-to-back disposals and partnership structures
• Gain exposure to promotion agreements, hybrid structures and large-scale land arrangements

Skills

Residential development

Strategic land

Client relationships

Commercial awareness

VAT/SDLT knowledge

Business development

Job description

Chadwick Nott is representing a top 100 UK law firm seeking a Senior Associate or Managing Associate to join their Bristol office, specialising in Housebuilding and Strategic Land. You will lead transactions, manage client relationships and help drive new business across a broad range of residential development matters.

The role covers options, contracts, affordable housing structures and site assembly, with exposure to promotion agreements and mixed-use schemes.