Acquisition Manager - France & Spain

We’re looking for a strategic and service-driven Acquisition Manager to lead how August sources and secures luxury properties across the French and Spanish markets. In this role, you will shape how we expand our exclusive property collections, ensuring each acquisition aligns with August’s commitment to excellence and quality.

As part of the Acquisition team, you will have the opportunity to:

• Lead property sourcing and acquisition across both the UK and continental Europe, with regular travel to France and Spain.
• Focus on high-end homes in key markets: Paris, the South of France, and the French Alps, as well as Mallorca and Barcelona in Spain.
• Work with precision and expertise to build thoughtfully curated collections that reflect August’s high standards.
• Negotiate, understand risk and present your findings.

The ideal candidate will be bilingual in English and French or Spanish, with a passion for luxury real estate and a proven track record in property acquisition. If you are ready to play a central role in enhancing August’s property portfolio and drive its success, we’d love to hear from you.

About us: August is a full-service, real-estate development company, based in London, United Kingdom, and specialising in luxury holiday home collections across Europe. Our private collections have a high level of service and an appealing lifestyle and culture that is focused on family.

As part of the Acquisition team, the primary responsibilities as the Acquisition Manager for the French & Spanish Markets include:

• Develop & Maintain relationships with key Real Estate agents, developers and property professionals across all French & Spain markets.
• Continually review the supply of potential homes, shortlisting leads and reviewing feasibility.
• Develop local knowledge and identify areas that present wise investment opportunities.
• Market research for new market entry as needed.
• Gather and share market intelligence.
• Arranging & undertaking viewing trips - authoring reports and managing the Acquisition database.
• Review and evolve search criteria by market.
• Recognise potential! See past the current state of a property and recognise what could become an August home.
• Partner with the RE Renovation & Design teams to review feasibility and forecast costs.
• Produce board approval presentations for purchase approval.
• Firmly negotiate purchase prices, commissions and completion programmes to get properties live to customers without delay.
• Deal administration including referencing, surveys, legal requirements etc.
• Collaborate with the RE Renovation team to undertake due diligence and surveys ahead of completing a transaction.
• Support the Renovation & Legal team as required.
• An ability to execute immediate deliverables, whilst in parallel seeking ways to scale, establish processes and play data and lessons learnt back into the process.

About You – we’d love to hear from you if you have:

• 2+ years experience of working in the Real Estate Industry - preferably in an agency/acquisitions / house-hunter role.
• Excellent communication, presentation and relationship management skills.
• Strong organizational skills and a professional manner.
• Perfect command of spoken & written English along with French and/or Spanish.
• Ability to work on their own as well as part of a team.
• A keen interest in property & design - able to recognise potential and think creatively.
• Commercial acumen and a skilled negotiator.
• A flexible, can-do attitude.
• The ability to travel up to 50% of the time.

Hours and package:

• Salary: up to £40,000 per annum.
• Bonus: up to £10,000 depending on the number of properties successfully secured.
• Working Hours: Monday to Friday, with 3 days working from the office.
• Location: Based in Bloomsbury Central London (with regular travel to France and Spain).
• Pension: Company pension scheme.

We offer:

• A high growth company that is quickly becoming a leader in the global market.
• Competitive salary and pension.
• Hybrid work setup with remote working flexibility.
• Training to better your skillset and develop you to a leading sales person and more.
• Fantastic win culture, social events, sales trips and more.
• An entrepreneurial environment.

Our Culture: We care deeply about our culture and have developed it across 3 key pillars:

• Autonomy: we believe in hiring great people, then giving them the space and flexibility to work in the way that’s best for them.
• Collaboration: as a fast-growing small business we all work together across multiple workstreams.
• Trust and transparency: we operate on a trust first basis.

August Values:

• Be resourceful - We take personal ownership in problem-solving.
• A sense of urgency - Our industry is fast-paced, we aim to act promptly.
• An ownership mindset - We are accountable for ourselves, our colleagues, our clients and our company.
• Pragmatism - We prioritise and evaluate based on impact and tangible results.
• Communication - We believe in transparent and open communication.

Interested? If you’re excited by this role and think you’d be a great fit, drop us an email at md@augustcollection.co.uk with a short note on why you’re interested. Please use the subject line: "Acquisition Manager - France & Spain Application".