Commercial Property Solicitor in Plymouth

Full time, Permanent, based in our Plymouth office, with opportunities for remote work. Following substantial growth over the last few years, and with a desire to grow significantly bigger across the firm in the future, we are recruiting a Solicitor to join our specialist Commercial Property team.

The Commercial Property team supports businesses, developers, and investors across the South West and beyond. We advise on a wide range of commercial property transactions, from acquisitions and disposals to complex leases and development projects. Known for our pragmatic advice and proactive service, we work closely with clients to understand their commercial goals and help them move forward with confidence.

• Buying and selling commercial premises
• Commercial leases (acting for landlords and tenants)
• Property development and site assembly
• Option agreements and overage arrangements
• Refinancing and secured lending
• Investment property transactions

Main responsibilities and duties of the job:

We’re looking for a confident and commercially minded Solicitor to join our busy Commercial Property team. This is a great opportunity for someone with strong technical skills and a client‑focused approach, who enjoys working on a wide variety of property transactions. You’ll be acting for a broad range of clients – including developers, investors, business owners, and landlords and tenants – handling sales and purchases, leases, refinances, and development matters. You’ll be responsible for managing your own caseload from instruction through to completion, with the support of experienced colleagues around you. Strong drafting, communication, and problem‑solving skills are essential, as is the ability to build trusted relationships with clients and other professionals. We’re looking for someone who is proactive, well‑organised, and keen to contribute to the continued success and growth of the team.

In return, you’ll be part of a collaborative and well‑regarded team, with opportunities for professional development, progression, and involvement in high‑quality work.

About you:

• Well‑developed professional and interpersonal skills
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) and legal technical skills
• Ability to work in a team environment and develop relationships across the business
• Ability to demonstrate a deep understanding of the technical issues that are key to our clients
• Recognises and seizes opportunities for the firm, including repeat business
• Builds and develops own network of internal and external contacts
• Awareness of business development initiatives in the team and identifies ways to contribute
• Good knowledge of PC applications, including MS Office

Salary & benefits:

We offer a highly competitive salary, 5 weeks holiday per year, a health cash back plan, death in service benefit, a healthy bonus scheme and enhanced maternity/paternity pay. Outside of work, we organise various events for our people throughout the year and live and work in undoubtedly one of the most beautiful parts of the country. We also think that it’s one of the best places to bring up a young family. It’s vitally important to us that our people can maintain healthy and happy lives, both in and out of work. We have a number of resources and initiatives designed to support health and well‑being and we're very happy to talk about opportunities for flexible/remote working, full‑time or part‑time working patterns.

Our values:

• Be Fair – we do not expect you to work ‘silly hours’, in fact we discourage it.
• Be Kind – we are committed to being kind to both clients and our people.
• Be Transparent – we should always be transparent about costs, timescales, and the work that we do for clients.
• Be Honest – if something goes wrong, or circumstances change, we should always communicate this with our clients as soon as possible.
• Be Brilliant – We should constantly challenge ourselves to be better, think bigger and work to find creative solutions to clients’ challenges.

Diversity and inclusion:

At Nash & Co Solicitors, diversity and inclusion naturally underpins how we as a firm live our values and everything we do. We believe that everyone has a voice, and that everyone’s voice counts. We know that the rich diversity across our firm makes us stronger, more innovative and creative, which helps us to better serve our clients and communities.

Our environmental and community commitments:

We have a range of long‑term environmental commitments, particularly with ocean‑based charities and organisations. Plymouth is known as Britain’s Ocean City, and we want to do our bit to help look after the seas and rivers that surround us. Supporting our community is something that we’re all really passionate about and more than happy to do.