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Senior Associate — Residential Development (Real Estate), Leeds

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Senior associate role within a large residential development team advising housebuilders, developers and institutional landowners across the full lifecycle of new‑build housing schemes. You will draft and negotiate land acquisition agreements, option and promotion agreements, overage and funding documentation, and work on brownfield regeneration, JVs and bulk disposals to RP/PRS/BTR purchasers.

The team advises on projects ranging from local schemes through major urban extensions and regeneration programmes and acts for a broad roster of national and regional housebuilders and institutional owners. You will work on complex, high‑value transactions with close support from an experienced, multi‑disciplinary property platform.

The firm offers structured training, clear progression, hybrid working and a competitive rewards package, plus a range of wellbeing and learning benefits.

  • Qualified solicitor in England & Wales with a minimum of 4 PQE; ideally 6+ years' PQE for Senior Associate level
  • Strong transactional residential development or commercial real estate experience (land acquisitions, options, promotions, overage, funding)
  • Experience supervising junior lawyers and working within multi‑disciplinary teams
  • Commercially aware, client‑facing, organised with excellent attention to detail

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