Trainee Plot Conveyancer - Leeds, United Kingdom - Gateley

Gateley

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Leeds, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Job Title
Trainee Plot Conveyancer
Closing Date
15-Aug-2023
Position
Full Time
Business Entity
Gateley Legal
Department
Residential Development
Location
Leeds - United Kingdom
Job Type
Experienced Hire
Description
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The Role

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Trainee Plot Conveyancer to join our Residential Development team in our Leeds office.

Duties and Responsibilities

Assisting fee earners on all aspects of a plot sales conveyancing transaction from reservation to post completion.
General administration duties to include gaining updates from clients & fee earners, filing, checking status of reservations and amending folders
Dealing with exchange paperwork and all forms of notice
Carry out Land Registry searches and complete & submit SDLT registrations
Assist in drafting replies to enquiries under supervision and progressing all transactions to ensure exchange of documents and timely completions
Maintain a case management system for all matters, ensuring the recording of key dates for exchange and completion
Providing cover for the fee earners when they are out of the office
Computer literacy to include, Outlook, Excel, Word & case management systems
Ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure
Good communications skills both written & oral

The Team

We are the leading residential development and urban regeneration legal team in the country acting for 18 of the top 20 UK housebuilders, institutional landowners such as Oxford University and other large-scale sector participants.

We advise over the complete life cycle of new build housing from initial heads of terms, acquiring the land, obtaining planning permission, building out the scheme and the sale of the new homes.

Schemes range from local developments of 50 new homes up to 20,000 unit green field urban extensions and multi-billion pound urban regeneration schemes in central London.

We also advise our PLC clients at Group level on national issues such as cladding remediation post-Grenfell and Competition and Markets Authority investigations.

The team, which is over 240 strong and is based in 8 of our offices across England, operates within Gateley Plc's Property Platform.

This Platform comprises over 700 lawyers, surveyors, engineers, architects, accountants and support staff who provide a unique cross-disciplinary service delivery to out wider property client base.

Part of the team's remit is the sale of the new homes once built.

These sales, which total approximately 15,000 plots and £3 billion in revenue each year, are handled by the Plot Sales team out of three regional hubs using highly developed IT processes.

The Person

LLB Graduate
Excellent communication skills
Attention to detail, this role involves with legal documents and land registries
Analytical and solution focussed to deliver service excellence
Professionalism you'll be working with some of Gateley's key clients
Forward thinking mindset. This role offers a clear career path for you to develop into a highly skilled Plot Conveyancer

The Benefits

With support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around our great development and progression opportunities will reward your commitment and loyalty.

We offer a competitive remuneration package where you'll be rewarded for your individual performance with an opportunity to receive an annual bonus.

In addition, we have a wide range of learning and development opportunities via our Learn platform to develop new skills and progress your career.

Our My Flex comprehensive rewards package includes options covering annual leave (and the benefit of purchasing extra days), cycle to work, critical illness benefit, employee assistance programme, group personal pension, health care, season ticket loan and many more benefits (grade dependent).

Finally, with Perks At Work/Home you can select a host of retail benefits that suit your needs alongside a Community Online Academy, free courses for all from fitness to coding to languages to hip hop dance.

We are Gateley

We are forward thinking and straight talking, our approach is to find solutions to the problems that our clients face.

Gateley is a legal and professional services group, we are a group of formidable experts in all areas of law and business.

Passionate problem solvers, we get our kicks from finding the right answers and getting our legal and business clients where they need to be.

We support more than 5,700 active clients, ranging from FTSE 100 companies to private individuals, in the UK and beyond.

Being part of Gateley is not just about the expertise that you bring; it's about attitude too.

The 'Gateley Story' is the story of our people and our culture.

It is what has got us to where we are today as a successful business and it's the driving force behind the Gateley Team Spirit and the values that have shaped it.

We have a set of shared internal values that capture what the Gateley Team Spiri