Property Transaction Associate

Overview

You will be supporting the Completions team through the purchase process - from offer accepted to exchange and completion - reviewing both physical and legal diligence, surveys, schedules of works and conveyancing documents.

You’ll also gain exposure to cutting edge machine learning technology, helping the team to achieve ambitious completion targets and ultimately revolutionise investment in residential property.

As an integral part of our mission, you’ll have a broad exposure to conveyancing and our wider Property Operations processes where your voice and your opinion matters. Got an idea? We want to hear it!

_We place strong emphasis on diversity in our hiring and our current team comprises 11 nationalities and we speak 11 languages.
We value equality in employment as we believe that it’s the only way to reflect and represent the diversity of society in the UK at Bricklane._

We do not tolerate discrimination or workplace harassment of any kind and are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace where all individuals are celebrated for their unique backgrounds, experiences and ways of thinking.

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Key Responsibilities

Dealing with purchase matters, to include:

• Liaise with estate agents, lawyers and any other third parties confidently on the telephone, giving advice, providing clear, accurate and up to date information and negotiating solutions to problems
• Liaising with Solicitors on both sale and purchase matters.
• Contacting Agents to progress active conveyancing transactions.
• Obtaining all required documentation from the client, sellers and third parties.
• Reviewing conveyancing documents and property reports.
• Checking completion statements, and dealing with the financial calculations relating to the same as required by the team.
• Reviewing legal due diligence to include final reports, searches, transaction forms and compliance documents.
• Preparing completion batches for client approval.
• Assisting in compiling the requests for funds.
• Dealing with all appropriate Notices/Deeds – Post Completion.
• Ensuring the timely transfer of files following completion.

Assisting with Sales files, including:

• Obtaining initial documentation.
• Collating contract packs.
• Assisting the Solicitors in replying to enquiries.

Day to Day:

• Updating the CRM system and portals.
• Sorting and storing property files in online cloud storage. Ensuring all files comply with the company policies.

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Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• 2+ years experience in conveyancing/property transactions
• Technical knowledge of a conveyancing transaction
• Technical knowledge of the property market, including the buy to let market
• Beneficial to have Sales Progression experience (not essential)
• You are brilliant at building relationships, ensuring your written and verbal communication suits the audience
• Excellent attention to detail
• Ability to manage multiple workflows; will be working on several pipelines scaling across multiple future mandates.
• Proficient with Google Workspace, Microsoft Word, and Excel preferred.

We would like to emphasise that the points listed above are guidelines rather than rules. If you feel your expertise and experience don't tick all of the boxes but you could add value in this role at Bricklane, please apply as we welcome all applications.

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Benefits

Holiday: 25 days annual leave + 1 extra day around Christmas.

Flexibility: We love working from our brand new office in Old Street but we do support partial remote working, if that's best for you. There is also the opportunity to work remotely from overseas for 3 weeks at a time.

Equity: You’ll receive a meaningful stake in our growing company so that we can share in the success of the business together.

Personal development: We'll support you with training opportunities to help you grow, with a £500 personal development budget provided.

Health: We offer Vitality healthcare insurance to support your health and wellbeing, with discounts for gym membership, sports equipment, cinema tickets etc.

Pension: You’ll be covered for later life with our pension plan.

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About Bricklane

Bricklane harnesses technology to make rental housing work better at scale.

We believe it’s time the property market was brought into the 21st century - upgrading the UK’s tired housing stock to provide high quality homes, with a market-leading service for our residents.

Technology and data have been central to our approach and success so far, enabling us to buy and manage properties more smartly, and scale more efficiently, than ever previously possible.

We’ve raised over £600m from leading institutional investors to deploy across the UK, and are scaling rapidly.

We're a Series B startup backed by the likes of A/O Proptech, Latitude (LocalGlobe’s breakout fund), Zoopla and Sustainable Future Ventures and we’ve assembled a smart, highly collaborative team from the worlds of tech, property and finance.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £30,000.00-£36,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Casual dress
• Company events
• Company pension
• Employee discount
• Flexitime
• Private medical insurance
• Referral programme
• Wellness programme
• Work from home

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

• Loyalty bonus

Application question(s):

• Do you have the Right to Work in the UK?
• This role requires 2 to 3 days per week commuting into the office - is this okay?

Work Location: Hybrid remote in London