Company: Chadwick Nott
Location: Exeter
Job Description:
Overview
Senior Real Estate role focused on rural property and agricultural matters within a national firm’s expanding rural practice. You will manage own caseload and advise estates, farmers, and rural businesses, handling transactions from tenancies to development and renewable projects. The role blends complex transactions with mentorship and business development in a collaborative, growth-oriented team. You’ll contribute to high-profile landowner work and strategic land initiatives, shaping the sector’s future.
Responsibilities
- Manage own caseload of rural property and agricultural matters
- Advise estates, farmers, institutional landowners and rural businesses
- Work on agricultural tenancies and estate management
- Handle rural land sales, acquisitions and development
- Contribute to renewable energy and diversification projects
- Drive strategic land transactions (options, promotion agreements, overage)
- Support on complex transactions alongside senior lawyers
- Supervise junior team members
- Engage in business development and sector networking
Key requirements
- Be a qualified solicitor with strong real estate experience (rural exposure helpful but not essential)
- Solid technical ability across property transactions
- Confident managing own matters and advising clients directly
- Strong drafting and commercial awareness
- Interest in the rural sector and its evolving landscape
- Ability or desire to mentor junior lawyers
- Proactive, personable and commercially minded
- proactive
- personable
- commercially minded
- real estate transactions
- drafting
- property law
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Posted: November 1st, 2026