Property Sales Officer at Places for People in Preston

Job Details

Location: Preston (PR1) Salary: up to £36,105.00 Employment Type: Fixed Term Hours per Week: 36.25 Grade: 5 Closing Date: 20 October 2026 Reporting Group: Assets and Investments Assets and Investments

About the role

We are looking to recruit a Property Sales Officer to join our dynamic and developing Property Sales team. In this role, you will deliver a full sales administration service for the Property Sales function, ensuring an excellent experience for all customers and stakeholders. Knowledge of statutory sales to tenant options, lease extensions and resale processes is desirable. A key part of your responsibilities will be managing all sales and resales in line with legislative requirements, individual leases and transfers, and internal service level agreements. You will liaise with existing customers, proposed buyers, solicitors, estate agents, and internal business areas across Places for People. You will tailor your approach to reflect individual customer needs, ensuring the delivery of consistently excellent customer service. Please note this is a fixed term role until September2027.

Responsibilities

• A key part of your responsibilities will be managing all sales and resales in line with legislative requirements, individual leases and transfers, and internal service level agreements.
• You will liaise with existing customers, proposed buyers, solicitors, estate agents, and internal business areas across Places for People.
• You will tailor your approach to reflect individual customer needs, ensuring the delivery of consistently excellent customer service.
• You will also be responsible for upholding our Customer Promises by consistently delivering excellent service to both new and existing customers.

Requirements

• Experience working in property sales environment, or a university graduate within the legal sector would be advantageous.
• We require someone who can display strong attention to detail, is quick to learn and enjoys variety in their work.
• We will also require you to effectively manage multiple priorities.
• As this role requires you to work with a diverse range of people; we need you to have excellent communication skills and a track record of delivering excellent customer service.
• We need you to have a calm and competent telephone manner and the ability to demonstrate written skills in a professional manner.
• At Places for People, we prioritise our dedication to safer recruitment. Therefore, a basic DBS check is mandatory for this position.

Benefits

• Competitive salary, with a salary review yearly
• Pension with matched contributions up to 7%
• Excellent holiday package – 35 days annual leave (including bank holidays) with the option to buy or sell leave
• Cashback plan for healthcare costs – up to £500 saving per year
• A bonus scheme for all colleagues at 2%
• Training and development
• Extra perks including huge discounts and offers from shops, cinemas and much more

Diversity & Inclusion

As part of our commitment to diversity and inclusion, we offer a guaranteed interview to candidates who are disabled, neurodiverse, or have served in the Armed Forces, provided you meet the essential criteria for the role.

Armed Forces - We are proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant. Places for People will guarantee an interview for any candidate who is serving or has formerly served in the Armed Forces, as a reservist, armed forces veteran (including the wounded, injured and sick), cadet instructor and military spouse/partner and who meets the essential criteria for the vacancy.

Disability Confident - We are proud to be a member of the Disability Confident scheme certified as Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This helps us to successfully employ and retain people with disabilities and health conditions. Disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for a vacancy will be guaranteed an interview.

Neurodivergent – Neurodiverse individuals have highly valuable skills, and we recognise that a traditional interview process sometimes works against them and doesn’t allow them to self-advocate.

Neurodiverse applicants who meet the criteria for a vacancy will be guaranteed an interview.

We are committed to creating an inclusive and accessible recruitment process.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to support your application or interview experience, please let us know.

For this role we are open to discussing the possibility of reduced hours, flexible start and finish times or compressed hours.

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