Real Estate Paralegal

Job description

Real Estate Paralegal – RLS Law

About the job

RLS is a specialist boutique commercial property firm based in Central London and ranked in the Legal 500.  We act for a wide range of clients including corporate occupiers, leisure operators, retailers, housing associations, high net worth individuals, property companies, developers and property investors.  We are a small and friendly team.

Primary Responsibilities

• Asset management work (drafting and dealing with licences to alter, licences to assign, licences to underlet and wayleaves)
• Help with preparing title reports and lease reports
• Acting on residential property investment purchases and sales and lease extensions
• Producing initial drafts of client reports and assisting with the preparation of documents
• Preparing SDLT calculations
• Conducting legal research as required
• Obtaining official copies and title documents from the Land Registry and other general Land Registry tasks
• Preparation of template draft transactional documents
• Preparation of engrossments and coordination of exchange and completion processes
• Setting up and managing DocuSign envelopes
• Preparing replies to enquiries – including CPSEs and residential standard form enquiries
• Attending to post completion matters including assistance with SDLT returns and Land Registry applications
• Maintaining deeds, scheduling, archiving and updating records
• Running your own debt recovery files to recover bad debts for key RLS clients and also from RLS clients who have not paid their bills 
• Providing paralegal support for the property litigation team
• Other related paralegal tasks as required

Qualifications, skills and experience

• Law degree or other undergraduate degree (2.1 or first class honours )
• Exposure to Real Estate law, through degree / LPC / SQE or previous employment
• Previous paralegal work (or similar) within the Real Estate sector, ideally in a large law firm
• Experience ordering standard searches and dealing with Land Registry processes
• Familiarity with Microsoft Office applications

Competencies

• Personal Leadership
• Builds Authentic Relationships
• Collaborates with others
• Enhances the Client Experience
• Achieves Results

Benefits

We want to reward you today and help you plan for tomorrow. We appreciate that everyone is different, therefore we have designed a benefits system that offers choice and flexibility based on individual needs and lifestyles. To name a few, these include:

• Competitive basic salary (reviewed annually)
• Flexible, hybrid working policy
• Up to 25 days holiday (rising to 28 days with service)
• Private medical insurance

Extra information

Status

Open

Education Level

Secondary School

Location

London

Type of Contract

Full-time jobs

Published at

17-09-2026

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Must be eligible to work in the EU

No

Cover Letter Required

No

Languages

English