Solicitor - Property Development

Property Development Solicitor

Hybrid working – Home and Bradford or London Office

About the role

Anchor are currently seeking an experienced Property Development Solicitor to join their established, in-house legal team. This role will provide expert legal advice and representation to the Organisation, where you will be advising and supporting colleagues on both standard and complex Property Development Law matters. 

This is an exciting time to be joining the in-house legal team that has recently undertaken an organisational restructure – you will be part of a growing, dynamic team that form an important function of central services supporting this ambitious Organisation.

The role will involve agile working, spending two or three days a week in our Bradford office and the rest working from home.

What you’ll need

To be successful in this role, you will already be a qualified solicitor and have the following knowledge/skills/experience in as many of these areas as possible:  

• 4 + PQE from a Property Development Law background
• A strong understanding of the Social Housing & Care sector
• Land disposals and site/property acquisitions (particularly linked to provision of social housing & care homes)
• Development set-up and site assembly, strategic land options, collaboration & JV agreements including conditional contracts.
• Planning consultation including planning applications & appeals, s38, s278 and s106 agreements, option agreements, nominations agreements, overage agreements and environmental assessments such as managing ecological and nature conservation issues and environmental risk, including contaminated land.
• Drafting and negotiating property development agreements, funding agreements, forward funding arrangements, infrastructure agreements, construction & building contracts, collateral warranties and consultant appointments.
• Construction dispute resolution & litigation including management of impact of insolvency and latent defects.
• Management company incorporation including experience in application of ground rent and service charges.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to be demonstrated through positive internal and external stakeholder relationship management.
• Ability to successfully manage a varied caseload within a fast-paced environment with confident decision-making skills.
• Proactive, pragmatic and solutions driven.
• Computer and technology literate.

Anchor – a great place to work

Anchor is one of England’s largest not-for-profit providers of care and housing for older people. Our aim is to transform housing and care so everyone can have a home where they love living in later life.

We’re not-for-profit – every penny we make or save is invested in the people who live with us and the people who work here. That means a better standard of care and customer service, higher wages, more investment in training and development and improved facilities.

A rewarding environment

From health and happiness to finance and your career, we’ll give you all the support you need.

Health & happiness

• Gym, fitness and wellbeing discounts
• Wellbeing support
• Flexible working options, including working from home

Finance

• Pension plan – there's no limit on employee contributions, and we’ll match whatever you contribute up to 8%
• Quick and easy pension transfer service
• Savings and financial advice, loans, free life assurance
• Discounts on shopping, holidays, phones, technology and more

Career

• Ongoing personal and professional development programme
• Leadership Pathways online learning resources
• Career progression and promotion opportunities

To see our full range of benefits, check out our dedicated rewards website  

Celebrating diversity, celebrating you

Anchor is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We aim to celebrate diversity and inclusion in all that we do, as we know that the more diverse our colleagues are, the better care and support we can give to our residents and each other.  

We are proud to have an LGBT+ group for our residents, and also Disability, LGBT+ and race and ethnicity colleague networks. These work to celebrate diversity, address concerns, review policy and practice and empower their members.  We also have an Inclusive Ambassador network to allow all colleagues to be part of promoting diversity and to be an ally to others.

We are a member of Inclusive Employers, a Stonewall Diversity Champion and a signatory to the Care Leaver Covenant and HouseProud Pledge schemes.

Hundreds of talented professionals with a range of specialist skills and experience based in our Bradford and London offices make up our Support Services. While we all do very different things, we work towards the same goal of improving the lives of the older people who live with us. 

Anchor is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are proud to have an LGBT+ resident group, and also BAME, LGBT+ and Disabled colleague networks. These work closely with the organisation to celebrate diversity, address concerns, review policy and practice and empower their members. We recruit, train and promote without discrimination on the basis of race, religion, colour, sex or gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age or other protected status. One of our values is ‘respect’, therefore we do not accept harassment or discrimination from any colleague, resident or third party.

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