Real Estate-Housebuilding & Strategic Land Lawyer – Bristol

Overview

In this role you support a leading Real Estate team in Bristol, focusing on high-value residential development and strategic land work. You will advise housebuilders, developers, landowners, promoters, and local authorities, handling land acquisitions and complex transactions. You’ll build client relationships, contribute to business development, and collaborate with planning, environmental, and other specialists. This is a progression-focused role within a large, ambitious residential development group with a strong client base.

Pay / Benefits

• extensive training
• high quality work
• clear opportunities for career progression
• hybrid/flexible working
• supportive and ambitious team
• competitive salary (70,000 to 95,000)

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: Conditional and unconditional contracts, Options and promotion agreements, Golden brick and affordable housing transactions, Back to back sales and partnership schemes, Deeds of easement and infrastructure agreements, Overage, site assembly, and management/service charge arrangements
• Exposure to complex transactions such as hybrid agreements, collaboration agreements, land pooling, mixed use schemes, PRS, institutional investment, and portfolio acquisitions
• Solid understanding of VAT and SDLT considerations
• Client focused, ambitious, and collaborative approach

• client-focused
• ambitious
• collaborative
• Conditional and unconditional contracts
• Options and promotion agreements
• Golden brick and affordable housing transactions

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