Residential Development Associate

• Complex and large-scale land acquisitions for household names across England and Wales
• Disposals of serviced parcels to Housing Associations and other developers
• Funding arrangements
• Strategic options

This is a multi-faceted real estate development position in which you will work alongside some of the biggest names within house building as well as niche developers. Your responsibilities will be varied but will include:

• Complex and large-scale land acquisitions for household names across England and Wales
• Collaboration agreements between developers
• Disposals of serviced parcels to Housing Associations and other developers
• Funding arrangements
• Strategic options
• Urban regeneration

Our Residential Development Unit exclusively partner with house builders. We work with all of the top 10 house builders in the UK and 18 of the top 20. With 200 specialists, we have the largest residential development team in the UK offering a complete acquisition to disposal service. The team acts for national and regional house builders, promoters and institutional landowners on new residential developments of up to 6,500 new homes.

Our Land Team act on large scale development matters such as development agreements, conditional contracts, options, corporate and contractual joint venture and collaboration agreements.

We also assist our house builder clients with strategic land projects. You’ll be able to rely on the UK’s largest plot team so that your focus is solely on land acquisition and development work. The team are supported to by specialist Litigation, Planning and Construction team so offer a full service to your clients. Our Birmingham team are headed up by Natalie Edwards, Pam Scott, Belinda Laurance, Robert Thompson, Simon Robinson and Jack Kelly.

This is a brilliant opportunity to learn from their experience and develop your career within this market-leading team.

We seek a Associate with 3 years or more post-qualification experience. While experience working with house builder clients is advantageous, we also welcome applications from skilled commercial development lawyers who want to specialise in residential work.

• Passion and Commitment:
  We value individuals who are deeply passionate about land acquisition – a cornerstone of Gateley’s strategic vision.
• Growth Potential:
  Our track record speaks for itself – we nurture and elevate our Land Acquisition experts to Partnership positions.
• Investment in the Future:
  We actively seek candidates whom we can invest in for long-term success.

At Gateley, you can expect world class development support. We invest heavily in training and support for our Solicitors at all levels on every property related topic as well as career development skills such as management training. As a Plc we are also able to offer opportunities that our LLP competitors are unable to.

Solicitors can build up equity within the business throughout their careers via our sharesave scheme. We are looking for someone who will take advantage of these many opportunities and develop themselves into one of our future leaders.

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.

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