The Role
Manage complex residential conveyancing matters for social housing providers from instruction through completion. Responsibilities include shared ownership staircasing, lease extensions, buybacks, deeds, lease surrender and regrant, enfranchisement, and auction sales. The role requires stakeholder relationship management, risk and compliance awareness, attention to detail, and client-focused communication while supporting colleagues and ensuring transactions progress effectively.
Summary Generated by Built In
Are you an experienced property paralegal looking to take ownership of complex residential conveyancing matters?
You will manage a specialist home ownership caseload for Registered Providers of Social Housing, handling matters from instruction to completion. This role offers varied, client-focused work within a specialist property practice.
Key Responsibilities
- Managing a specialist caseload of residential conveyancing (home ownership) matters for Registered Providers of Social Housing, including shared ownership staircasing and final staircasing transactions, lease extensions, buyback transactions, deeds of variation, deeds of covenant, and lease surrender and regrant arrangements.
- Managing the conveyancing aspects of residential enfranchisement matters and auction sales, ensuring transactions progress effectively within agreed and often complex timescales.
- Building and maintaining positive working relationships with clients, housing associations, managing agents, legal representatives, and other stakeholders to support a smooth transaction process and a high-quality client experience.
- Applying strong attention to detail and a thorough understanding of conveyancing risk management, regulatory requirements, and compliance obligations.
- Working in a professional, collaborative, and client-focused manner, taking responsibility for matters from instruction through to completion, while providing support and guidance to colleagues and stakeholders where appropriate.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- Residential conveyancing experience
- Strong attention to detail
- Understanding of risk and compliance
- Excellent communication skills
- Proactive and client-focused approach
Benefits
- Birmingham, located roles, we have a newly refurbished office in the City centre with an on-site café and free use of Gym facilities
- For Manchester vacancies, we have a City Central site, with newly refurbished facilities
- Hybrid working
- 25 days holiday, 2 gift days at Christmas.
- The opportunity to give back and have 3 days available for social purpose volunteering.
- All IT equipment and support for effective home working
- An excellent development training programme and opportunities to grow sector expertise
About
Anthony Collins Solicitors is a specialist law firm with a clear purpose – to “improve lives, communities and society". For over 50 years, we’ve been successfully combining market-leading legal expertise with a commitment to excellence and long-term relationships underpinned by a strong set of values. What makes Anthony Collins Solicitors distinctive, beyond simply being a sector-specialist law firm, is our people and the values we share. We’re extremely proud of the calibre of people that we attract; people who are inspired by our values, motivated by our vision and work with our clients to positively influence the society and communities we are building together.
Skills Required
- Residential conveyancing experience
- Strong attention to detail
- Understanding of risk and compliance
- Excellent communication skills
- Proactive and client-focused approach
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What We Do
Anthony Collins Solicitors LLP is a national sector-specialist law firm with a clear purpose to improve lives, communities, and society. They deliver accessible and pragmatic legal advice across various sectors including health and social care, education, housing, charities, local government, social business, and legal services for individuals.
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