Lease and Equity Specialist

What you'll do

As a Lease and Equity Specialist, you'll be the conveyancing expert within our Resales and Equity Progression team, providing specialist advice on a wide range of leasehold and Low-Cost Home Ownership matters. You'll manage complex transactions relating to Shared Ownership, lease extensions, enfranchisement, Right to Buy, Right to Acquire, equity loans and retirement sales, ensuring customers receive an outstanding service throughout their journey. The Lease and Equity Specialist plays a key role in unlocking complex cases, resolving conveyancing challenges and supporting colleagues with specialist guidance on legal and leasehold matters. You'll drive successful property transactions, generate income for reinvestment into our homes and communities, and ensure compliance with evolving leasehold legislation and regulatory requirements.

How you'll do it

• Act as the conveyancing specialist within the Resales and Equity Progression team, providing expert advice and acting as a single point of contact for customers.
• Manage complex lease extension matters across both voluntary and statutory routes, including enfranchisement, lease variations and other specialist leasehold transactions.
• Lead on Right to Buy and Right to Acquire applications, assessing eligibility and ensuring transactions are progressed in line with legislation and policy requirements.
• Support colleagues with complex conveyancing queries, providing escalation support, specialist advice and training across the wider organisation.
• Build strong relationships with residents, solicitors, valuers and other stakeholders to progress transactions efficiently and overcome barriers to completion.
• Drive income through staircasing, lease extensions, enfranchisement, loft conversions and loan redemption activities while ensuring compliance with regulatory and audit requirements.

The ideal candidate

We believe great service starts with great people, and we are committed to recruiting and developing passionate, enthusiastic, and talented individuals who can add value to our thriving organisation.

Hybrid arrangements - at least two days a week in an office or in a community/site based/partnership setting. On other days, working from home may be possible, depending on the work needed and the interaction required.

Essential:

• Strong experience managing conveyancing transactions and complex leasehold matters within a customer-focused environment.
• Thorough knowledge of conveyancing and Low-Cost Home Ownership products, particularly Shared Ownership.
• Excellent understanding of Right to Buy, Right to Acquire and associated eligibility assessment processes.
• Significant experience of lease extensions, enfranchisement and other complex leasehold transactions.
• Strong understanding of leasehold legislation and regulatory changes affecting the sector.
• Ability to read and interpret complex leases and communicate technical information clearly to a range of audiences.

Desirable:

• Experience working within a housing association or affordable housing environment.

What's in it for you?

Once you join us, you'll find plenty of opportunities to grow within our organisation. You'll also have access to a wide range of learning opportunities to help you achieve and maximise your potential.

• Excellent annual leave allowance and flexible working opportunities (qualifying period may apply)
• Generous pension scheme
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption pay in addition to statutory entitlements (qualifying period may apply)
• Employee assistance - free confidential advice and counselling services provided by independent specialist organisations
• Health cash plan
• Staff discounts - we give our staff access to discounts at hundreds of major retailers, gyms, restaurants, entertainment, days out, insurance, and much more
• Interest free loans - season ticket loan, tenancy deposit loan, and training loan
• Cycle to work scheme
• Life Assurance x 4 annual salary

All about us

Notting Hill Genesis is a not-for-profit organisation providing affordable homes for Londoners and it is now one of the largest housing associations in London. We are both a landlord and a developer, with more than 65,000 existing homes and 10,000 more in our pipeline and we employ around 1,800 employees.

For more information on what we do and what makes us different please visit: https://group.nhg.org.uk/careers/

We welcome applications from everyone.

We actively monitor the diversity of our workforce and strive to show equal representation throughout all levels of the organisation.

We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident employer amongst other diversity commitments.

To find out more about our approach to equality, diversity and inclusion please visit: https://group.nhg.org.uk/careers/diversity-is-our-strength/