Associate/Senior Associate – Residential Development – Bristol

Overview

In this Senior Associate role, you will advise on residential development and strategic land matters for developers, housebuilders, promoters, and landowners in the South West. You’ll lead day-to-day transactions and shape complex deals from inception to completion, collaborating with top-tier specialists. The position sits within a thriving Bristol Real Estate team, offering genuine career progression and a collaborative, high-quality work environment. You’ll help grow the client base and drive business development while delivering commercially focused legal advice. This is an engaging chance to work on high-profile development projects with significant regional impact.

Pay / Benefits

• hybrid working
• career progression opportunities
• collaborative team environment

Responsibilities

• Advising developers, housebuilders, promoters, and landowners on residential development and strategic land matters
• Managing acquisitions, disposals, option agreements, promotion agreements, overage arrangements, and site assembly projects
• Leading day-to-day transactions while delivering commercially focused legal advice
• Building and strengthening client relationships across the South West property market
• Supporting business development initiatives and identifying new opportunities for growth

Key requirements

• 2+ years’ PQE with strong experience in residential development work
• excellent technical ability and commercial awareness
• experience handling strategic land transactions, affordable housing arrangements, infrastructure agreements, and complex development projects would be advantageous

• strong client-relations skills
• commercial awareness
• business development mindset
• residential development expertise
• knowledge of strategic land transactions
• infrastructure agreements

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