Real Estate Senior Solicitor

CompanyWeightmans

LocationManchester, England, United Kingdom

Posted At3/9/2026

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Solicitors and lawyers

Occupation Code Skill LevelHigher Skilled

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£51,600 (£26.46 per hour)

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Description

Our national Real Estate team provides a complete range of legal and advisory services on all aspects of residential development for a wide range of residential developers and social housing providers (including FTSE housebuilders). We advise on and draft heads of terms, conditional contracts, option and promotion agreements as well as all associated construction, planning and infrastructure issues. Our clients range from national housebuilders, regional developers, social housing providers and individual landowners. We represent clients in a range of projects from multi-million acquisitions and disposals as well as site assembly for residential development.

We are currently recruiting for an experienced solicitor to join our Real Estate Team in Manchester. The team act for house builders, local and national developers, registered providers of social housing, landowners, local authorities and investors.

The ideal candidate will have a proven track record within these areas.

Main Duties And Responsibilities

New development site set-ups multi-tenure (outright sale, shared ownership, shared equity, apartment schemes)
Acting on site set-ups both where our Real Estate team have supported client on the acquisition and where they have not

Considering rectification work arising out of site set-up work and actioning as necessary

Run Designated Protected Areas checks and supporting clients with the waiver process (where able) and restricted forms of Shared Ownership lease

POS transfers

Consideration and dealing with managed areas

Supporting client consideration of marketing strategy

Assist in dealing with Statutory Agreements (eg Section 104 and 38 and supporting Deeds of Easement) Have a working knowledge of the processes behind newbuild plot sales, part exchange sales/ purchases and Deeds of Variation in order to support members of the wider team

Perform general file management duties

Carry out searches

Making applications to the Land Registry to register dealings

Open new case files/matters on system

Physically open new files, ensuring compliance with Lexcel and internal procedures

Assist with and oversee money laundering checks on all new matters (or where funds are received on existing files.

Ensure client is kept informed at all times by providing and updating a property reporting schedule on a weekly basis

Attend client meetings where necessary

Close and archive files, including filleting files ready for processing

Assist in establishing and maintaining precedent files for the team by assisting in setting up and utilising work flows on the case management system

This list is not intended to be exhaustive and you will be expected to perform other duties and have other responsibilities that fall within the wider remit of the role.