Residential Sales Associate

Residential Sales Associate | NQ+ | Top 50 International Firm | Manchester

Are you a newly qualified solicitor looking to build a residential property specialism with real commercial weight behind it? This is an opportunity to join a highly respected Top 50 international firm in central Manchester, acting for developers, registered providers and local authorities on plot sales across nationwide schemes.

The Firm

A City led international practice with offices across the UK, the Middle East and Asia, recognised for market leading work across real estate, disputes, education, energy, healthcare, leisure, finance and large-scale projects.

Real estate is a cornerstone of the firm's success and one of its defining strengths. The practice is consistently ranked in the Legal 500, with partners recognised as Hall of Fame and Next Generation lawyers, and it generates a substantial share of firmwide revenue. That puts the team you would be joining at the commercial heart of the business rather than on its periphery.

The culture combines the technical quality of a city firm with a more collaborative and flexible environment. For a junior lawyer who wants international calibre work without extreme billing pressure, it offers a great middle ground.

The Role

The Residential Sales team provides a full plot sales service to developers on new build schemes nationwide, covering both leasehold and freehold. Clients span private developers, registered providers and local authorities, and the team acts exclusively on the developer side rather than for individual buyers.

As a newly qualified solicitor you will join an experienced and supportive team, taking on real drafting responsibility from the outset while being properly trained in a technical specialism. You will prepare precedent documentation and sale packs, and draft transfers and leases, including shared ownership leases, for developments ranging from single phase sites to complex schemes combining multiple phases and tenures.

You will work alongside the acquisition team on title documentation and its compatibility with the sales process and draw on specialist colleagues across the firm where schemes call for it, from energy arrangements at development level through to the national litigation teams.

There are also a dedicated team of paralegals and CILEX qualified fee earners administering sales and post-sale transactions, and as you develop, you will take a supporting and supervisory role alongside them. Business development is encouraged early, through client presentations, seminars and written briefings.

The caseload covers:

• Shared ownership and open market plot sales

• Interim and final staircasing

• Licence to assign applications

• Lease extensions, buy backs and resales

• Site set up and precedent documentation for phased and mixed tenure schemes

• Transfers and leases across leasehold and freehold developments

• Ongoing support across the full sales lifecycle

About You

• Newly qualified solicitor with a residential property or real estate seat behind you

• Strong technical drafting ability and genuine attention to detail

• Keen to specialise and be trained properly within an experienced team

• Commercially aware, with an interest in client development

• A collaborative approach and the willingness to work across teams

What's on Offer

• A Top 50 international firm with a market leading real estate platform

• A technically varied caseload acting for major developers and registered providers from day one

• Excellent training, mentoring and clear long-term progression

• Annual bonus scheme, pension and private medical insurance

• Hybrid working and a strong emphasis on balance

• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits

To find out more, contact Ollie Fearon at ollie@jmc-legal.com or call 07441 937638