Residential Conveyancer

at  Gateley

DIVERSITY, INCLUSION AND WELL BEING

Diversity, inclusion and well-being is an important part of Gateley’s culture and values. We recruit talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, providing equal opportunities for all to join our team regardless of age, sex, race, sexual orientation, disability, or culture.
We create an exciting and rewarding place to work that aims to fulfil everyone’s potential and together to achieve personal and business goals. We offer flexible working patterns to help our staff achieve a good work/ life balance and we encourage candidates seeking flexibility in their next role to apply for any of our vacancies.
We are proud to have been recognised by The Law Society as gold standard for our Diversity and Inclusion Charter and to be Stonewall Diversity Champions.

THE ROLE

We have a rare opportunity for an experienced residential conveyancer to work on a permanent basis within the part exchange team of our residential development unit in Birmingham. This role would suit a residential conveyancer with at least five years’ experience of running a caseload of general residential property. It is fundamental that you can run a transaction from initial instruction, completely unaided and have experience of conveyancing of both leasehold and freehold properties.
The successful candidates will be responsible for dealing with a wide range of transactions including unregistered properties bought and sold by way of part exchange by national housebuilders as part of their plot sales procedure. This conveyancing role will involve drafting and sending out conveyancing paperwork, dealing with pre-contract enquiries, reviewing and reporting on title and searches, negotiating and exchanging contracts and dealing with completions. It will also include necessary post-completion formalities, including SDLT and Land Registry registrations. No experience of part exchange or plot sales is necessary.
Our clients require these transactions to be dealt with quickly and efficiently. The caseload will reflect these quick turnaround times.

Personality fit is critical for this role and our successful candidate will be a very personable, enthusiastic and confident individual who has an ability to quickly form strong and trusted relationships with a valuable client. She/he will also demonstrate the following attributes:

• Five years’ residential conveyancing experience
• Excellent commercial acumen
• Good communication skills
• Team player
• Ability and willingness to learn
• Attention to detail
• Organised with time and documents
• Ability to prioritise
• Proactive approach towards work
• Good IT skills
• Discretion and professionalis