Fee Earner, Residential Property Newcastle in Newcastle upon Tyne

About the Role

We have a new and exciting opportunity for a motivated and experienced Fee Earner to join our successful Residential department. Based at our newly renovated open-plan Newcastle office, the successful candidate will be joining our largest department made up of 33 colleagues, who work across our two office sites.

The duties will be varied and rewarding and will include:

• Managing a mixed case load of sale, purchase and Buy to Let residential properties, leasehold matters, help and right to buy schemes, new build property purchase and sales, mortgages/re‑mortgages, shared ownership and affordable housing, and transfer of equity.
• Providing effective communication and excellent customer care to clients at each stage of their journey.
• Taking an active role in business development, to support building professional relationships and growing our client base.

Benefits

Alongside a range of benefits such as life insurance, retail discounts and uncapped bonuses for fee‑earner roles, we are committed to helping you develop personally and professionally.

About You

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

• A minimum 1 year’s experience in a fee‑earning role. Whilst ideally candidates will be a qualified Solicitor / Legal Executive / Licensed Conveyancer, we will consider non‑qualified candidates who meet our experience requirements.
• Prior experience of managing a busy and varied residential property caseload.
• Knowledge of the legal aspects of residential transactions, including Freehold and Leasehold, new build transactions including reviewing TP1s, and using the Land Registry Portal and lender portals would be advantageous.
• The ability to travel to the firm’s Stockton‑on‑Tees office on an occasional basis, in line with the needs of the business.