Real Estate-Housebuilding & Strategic Land Lawyer – Bristol

Overview

In this role you will support a leading national real estate team in Bristol, focusing on high-value residential development and strategic land. You will work with senior lawyers and a broad client base, shaping land acquisitions and complex transactions while contributing to business development and team growth. You’ll collaborate with planning, construction, environmental, and tax specialists to drive successful outcomes. This is an opportunity to advance within a supportive, ambitious team and impact major development projects.

Responsibilities

• Act on immediate and strategic land acquisitions across the South/South West and nationally
• Manage day-to-day conduct of transactions and progress matters efficiently
• Advise housebuilders, promoters, developers, landowners, and local authorities
• Build and maintain strong client relationships
• Support business development initiatives and contribute to team growth
• Collaborate with planning, construction, environmental, agricultural, tax, and litigation specialists

Key requirements

• 3-8+ years’ PQE in residential development, strategic land, or broader real estate
• Strong track record acting for housebuilders, promoters, developers, or landowners
• Excellent technical skills and commercial awareness
• Established or growing relationships within the regional development market
• Experience with: contracts (conditional/unconditional), options and promotion agreements, golden brick and affordable housing transactions, back-to-back sales and partnership schemes
• Exposure to complex transactions (hybrid agreements, collaboration agreements, land pooling, mixed-use schemes, PRS, institutional investment, portfolio acquisitions)
• Solid understanding of VAT and SDLT considerations
• Client-focused, ambitious, collaborative approach

• client-focused
• ambitious
• collaborative
• contracts (conditional/unconditional)
• options and promotion agreements
• golden brick and affordable housing transactions

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