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This long established multi service legal firm with offices throughout Lancashire seek to employ an experienced Commercial Property Solicitor to join their office based in the city centre of Preston.

The Role

Working as a Property Solicitor or Property Executive within the Specialist and Commercial Property team based at their Preston office, you will manage a varied caseload of:
commercial property transactions including freehold/leasehold sales and purchase, refinance, SIPP transactions;
commercial lease transactions
bridging finance of commercial and residential property;
commercial and residential developments;
land transactions, including purchase of development land, overage agreements, option agreements You must have a minimum of 2 years’ experience of running your own property caseload from initial instruction to completion.  It is essential that you have strong experience of dealing with the sale and purchase of commercial properties and commercial leases.

Responsibilities
Handling all aspects of a mixed caseload of commercial property transactions, land transactions and specialist property matters including bridging financial, developments, overage and opinions, as well as assisting the Private Client and Family teams with probate sales.
Approving legal titles
Preparing freehold and leasehold reports for clients and lenders
Raising necessary enquiries and dealing with replies to enquiries
Preparing Land Registry applications and dealing with requisitions
Manage caseload through effective use of case management system
Adhere to and promote compliance with the firm’s policies, practices and procedures; legislation applicable to the profession and to any relevant quality standards
Through training and other means, to keep fully up to date with relevant legislation and practice 
People Management
Support the development of team assistants. Encourage and facilitate this development by broadening their experience, knowledge and skills. Monitor team support’s delivery of client service with regular feedback.
Work with your Team Leader to identify opportunities to move people where appropriate, with the aim of increasing the flexibility of the department and its ability to respond to a variety of different pressures. 
Client Management
Ensure client service levels agreements are met
Maintain and build good professional working relationships with clients, external institutions and organisations
Develop and improve client service standards, encouraging a total customer care culture throughout your team 
Experience & Skills
Minimum of 2 years experience of managing own property caseload from instructions to completion and registration
Proficient in managing varied and technical property transactions, which must include experience of dealing with commercial property and commercial leases
Adept at checking freehold, leasehold titles and commercial leases
Ability to raise, check and respond to additional enquiries within your technical experience
Signing off AML checks and Customer Due Diligence
Working within lender’s instructions
Good inter-personal skills, able to deal with all levels within an organisation and relieve potential conflicts.
Able to work accurately and clearly explain technical matters to non technical users in both written and verbal forms.
Good IT skills including experience in using Microsoft office tools – Word, Excel, Outlook etc.
Strong experience of using property case management software
A client focused approach to service delivery
Keen attention to detail and ability to manage busy caseload
This is a great opportunity to join a fantastic firm who offer back great benefits. If you are interested in this role, please send a copy of your CV to Tracy at (url removed) or alternatively you can call on (phone number removed)

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