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Paralegal – Real Estate Jobs in Guildford, England, United Kingdom at Charles Russell Speechlys
Title: Paralegal – Real Estate
Company: Charles Russell Speechlys
Location: Guildford, England, United Kingdom
This role will be joining our Paralegal team in Guildford, supporting our Real Estate group and dealing with all types of property/property management work for clients that the team is engaged with.
As a well-respected team of specialists, we offer the strength and depth that comes from having one of the largest real estate teams in the City of London as well as a highly-regarded team across our other global locations. Within the team, we have the full range of experts needed to advise throughout the entire property asset life-cycle from planning, investment and management advice to sale, redevelopment or onward sale and leaseback.
We advise on every aspect of commercial property, at all levels of the team – and we strive for excellence and empower our colleagues to do so.
This will be a fantastic opportunity for Law graduates, or equivalent, with either work experience in, or a genuine interest in Real Estate Law.
Please note you will be required to attend the office full time in the first month, after which the role follows our hybrid working arrangement of 60/40 working in the office and working remotely.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Amending, negotiating and completing various infrastructure agreements for housebuilder clients, including taking instructions direct from the client and reporting on the agreed form documents.
- Dealing with management applications; including preparing, granting and reviewing Licences, covering Licences to Assign, Underlet and Alterations.
- Drafting and negotiating contracts and transfers for disposals to Registered Providers.
- Supporting on disposals/acquisitions, including on lettings dealing with the process to exclude the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954.
- Supporting on enfranchisement and non-contentious property management work.
- Preparing replies to enquiries.
- Document review.
- Preparing completion statements.
- Obtaining and reviewing pre -exchange searches.
- Assisting with reports.
- Administering data rooms and DocuSign.
- Dealing with payments.
- Being a point of contact for clients/third parties.
- Dealing with transactional post completion matters including SDLT, the Land Registry applications for registration, Land Registry requisitions (application queries) and post completion registration administration.
- Transaction management for the team if required and keeping records up to date.
- Providing transactional progress reports for key clients.
- Supporting other teams and undertaking research as required.
- Complying with all relevant legal and regulatory obligations including the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Standards and Regulations, and Principles.
Person Specification
- Have a law degree or equivalent with a keen interest in Real Estate Law.
- Excellent attention to detail and organisational skills.
- Demonstrate excellent IT skills including Excel and Word and ideally some experience of Worksite and a case management system.
- Professional manner with the ability to work collaboratively across different levels.
- Be confident in both verbal and written communications.
- Committed to providing clients with a high-quality service.
Competencies
- Working together
- Integrity and respect
- Inclusive
- Personal impact and growth
- Driving high standards
- Commercial mindset
- Client-centric
- Responsible Business
For a detailed specification please download the job description in the documents section of this page.
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