About Golden Homes Canterbury
Golden Homes Canterbury is a leading residential building company delivering hundreds of homes annually throughout Canterbury. With a strong reputation, ambitious growth plans and a culture built around collaboration, continuous improvement and achieving great outcomes, this is an exciting time to join the business. This is a high-performing team that celebrates success and has created a fun and friendly culture.
The Opportunity
This newly created position has been established to bring Golden Homes' property and contract management functions in-house. You'll play a key role in managing land purchase and sale transactions, responding to purchaser due diligence and contractual enquiries and liaising with external lawyers and finance providers.
This role sits at the intersection of legal, property, commercial and operational functions. It offers far more variety and influence than a traditional property law or legal executive role and would suit someone who enjoys being a part of bigger picture outcomes, contributing to business success and strategy. There is room for this role to grow and evolve as you support the sales team and help to improve internal systems and processes.
Key responsibilities include:
About You
We are interested in speaking with experienced Registered Legal Executives who can work with a good degree of autonomy and with a solid background in property transactions.
We are looking for someone who has:
What's on Offer?
For a confidential chat about this role, please contact Liz Sloan at CoLegal Recruitment – [email protected] or 027 211 6718.
Golden Homes Canterbury is a leading residential building company delivering hundreds of homes annually throughout Canterbury. With a strong reputation, ambitious growth plans and a culture built around collaboration, continuous improvement and achieving great outcomes, this is an exciting time to join the business. This is a high-performing team that celebrates success and has created a fun and friendly culture.
The Opportunity
This newly created position has been established to bring Golden Homes' property and contract management functions in-house. You'll play a key role in managing land purchase and sale transactions, responding to purchaser due diligence and contractual enquiries and liaising with external lawyers and finance providers.
This role sits at the intersection of legal, property, commercial and operational functions. It offers far more variety and influence than a traditional property law or legal executive role and would suit someone who enjoys being a part of bigger picture outcomes, contributing to business success and strategy. There is room for this role to grow and evolve as you support the sales team and help to improve internal systems and processes.
Key responsibilities include:
- Manage and advise on land sale and purchase agreements
- Prepare and review house and land agreements and build contracts
- Review titles, easements, covenants and subdivision documentation
- Manage and facilitate customer due diligence process
- Coordinate matters for settlement alongside external legal providers, ensuring smooth settlement processes
- Liaise with finance providers regarding settlement and funding requirements
- Support and train the sales team on relevant contractual and property-related matters
- Improve legal, operational and contract management systems and processes
- Act as a key internal advisor on property and contract-related issues
About You
We are interested in speaking with experienced Registered Legal Executives who can work with a good degree of autonomy and with a solid background in property transactions.
We are looking for someone who has:
- Significant experience working as a Legal Executive in property law and conveyancing
- Strong understanding of title reviews, subdivisions and land development processes
- The ability to work autonomously and make commercially sound decisions
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- A proactive, solutions-focused mindset
- Confidence working directly with internal teams, financiers and external lawyers
- A desire to move beyond a traditional law firm environment and broaden your commercial and managerial skills
What's on Offer?
- Competitive salary package
- Rare opportunity to use your legal executive skillsets outside a law firm in a successful business with scope for growth
- Variety, autonomy and direct involvement in commercial decision-making
- Future progression into operational, systems or management responsibilities
- Great central city location with a car park provided
- Fun, supportive and collaborative team culture
- Freedom from timesheets, billable hours and traditional law firm constraints
For a confidential chat about this role, please contact Liz Sloan at CoLegal Recruitment – [email protected] or 027 211 6718.