Property Paralegal NEW

A unique opportunity has arisen to join a fast-growing, entrepreneurial property and hospitality business as a Property Paralegal. This is a varied and highly visible role supporting senior leadership while taking ownership of property-related legal documentation, compliance processes, and document management across a dynamic commercial property portfolio. This is a permanent position.

This position would suit an organised and proactive property professional who enjoys working in a fast-paced environment, can manage multiple priorities, and thrives on building efficient systems and processes.

The Role

You will play a central role in supporting property transactions, legal administration, compliance monitoring, and document control.

Key responsibilities include:

Property & Legal Support

• Assisting with the preparation, review and administration of lease agreements, licences, contracts and deeds.
• Supporting acquisitions, disposals, lease renewals and wider portfolio management activities.
• Coordinating with external solicitors, landlords, tenants, agents and internal stakeholders.
• Conducting legal and property searches.
• Developing and maintaining effective lease and legal document management systems.
• Monitoring critical lease events, contractual obligations and key dates.
• Supporting due diligence exercises and property compliance reviews.
• Managing relationships with business rates authorities and supporting the administration of property-related liabilities.

Document Control

• Managing and maintaining property and legal filing systems.
• Ensuring robust document version control and tracking procedures.
• Maintaining registers for leases, contracts, deeds and compliance documentation.
• Coordinating document approvals and distribution across internal teams and third parties.
• Supporting audit requests through the efficient retrieval of documentation.
• Identifying opportunities to improve document management processes and efficiencies.

This is an end-to-end property paralegal position.

About You

To be successful in this role, you will bring:

• Previous experience as a Property Paralegal working either in-house or within private practice.
• A strong understanding of commercial property processes and legal documentation.
• Exceptional organisational skills and attention to detail.
• The ability to manage competing priorities and work to multiple deadlines.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience with document management systems and electronic filing platforms.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel and Outlook.

• Commercial real estate, property development or construction sector experience.
• Knowledge of Land Registry procedures and property compliance requirements.
• Experience using systems such as SharePoint, iManage, Aconex or Procore.
• Paralegal qualification, legal studies background or a law degree.

What’s on Offer

• A highly varied role combining legal, property and executive support responsibilities.
• Direct exposure to senior leadership and key business decision-makers.
• The chance to have a tangible impact by developing and improving internal processes.
• A collaborative and fast-paced working environment with significant scope for growth and development.

This is a hybrid working role with 3 or 4 days per week in the office.

The salary on offer is £35,000-£40,000 per annum dependant on experience.

Please note our advertisements use PQE/salary levels purely as a guide. However we are happy to consider applications from all candidates who are able to demonstrate the skills necessary to fulfil the role.

At LAW Absolute we endeavour to respond to all applications within 48 hours. However due to the volume of applications we receive we may not be able to respond to every candidate individually.

If you have not heard from us within a 48 hour timeframe your application has not been successful and your details have not been retained. LAW Absolute acts as an employment business for temporary recruitment and as an employment agency for fixed term contract and permanent recruitment.