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<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" dir="ltr"><strong>Temporary Lettings Administrator - Manchester (Part-Time)</strong></p><p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" dir="ltr">We're working with a busy property management client in Manchester to find a Temporary Lettings Administrator to join their team during a peak booking period.</p><p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" dir="ltr">📍 <strong>Location:</strong> Manchester<br /> ⏰ <strong>Contract:</strong> Temporary, ASAP start through end of October<br /> 📅 <strong>Hours:</strong> Part-time, 3 days per week (Monday, Wednesday &amp; Friday)<br /> 💼 <strong>Focus:</strong> Administrative support during a busy period for the team</p><p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" dir="ltr"><strong>What You'll Be Doing:</strong></p><ul dir="ltr"><li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Providing administrative support to a busy property management team</li><li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Working alongside a team of 5, including the property manager, leasing assistants, and maintenance staff</li><li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Hitting the ground running in a fast-paced environment during peak season</li></ul><p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" dir="ltr"><strong>What Our Client Is Looking For:</strong></p><ul dir="ltr"><li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">BTR leasing experience is essential</li><li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Excellent administrative and customer service skills</li><li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Background in BTR, PBSA, or property management preferred</li><li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Ability to learn quickly and adapt to new processes</li><li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Hospitality or front-facing customer service experience also considered</li><li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Availability to commit to the full 3 days per week (Mon/Wed/Fri) through end of October</li></ul><p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" dir="ltr">This is a great opportunity to join a friendly, supportive team during their busiest period, with an immediate start available. If you're immediately available and have the right experience, we'd love to hear from you - apply now!</p>

Lettings Admin

<h1><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Executive Assistant to COO - Real Estate</span></h1><p><br /><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>West End - £45,000- £53,000 + Bonus</strong></span></p><h2><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Role Overview</span></h2><p><br />An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Executive Assistant to provide high level support to a senior member of the leadership team. <br />This is a broad and varied position requiring someone who is highly organised, commercially aware and able to operate with a high degree of discretion. The successful candidate will take responsibility for the executive's day to day organisation, ensuring their schedule, communications, meetings, travel and administrative requirements are managed effectively. <br />The role will involve regular interaction with senior colleagues, leaders across associated businesses and external stakeholders, making strong communication skills, sound judgement and the ability to build trusted relationships essential.</p><h2>Key Responsibilities</h2><ul><li>Take full ownership of the executive's diary and inbox, effectively managing a busy and frequently changing schedule, prioritising commitments and resolving clashes where necessary.</li><li>Coordinate meetings with internal and external stakeholders, ensuring appropriate preparation, documentation and logistics are in place.</li><li>Arrange and manage complex travel itineraries, including transport, accommodation, meeting schedules and associated arrangements.</li><li>Ensure the executive is appropriately briefed and prepared for meetings, appointments and key business commitments.</li><li>Prepare, proofread and professionally format correspondence, reports, presentations, briefing documents and meeting papers.</li><li>Attend meetings where required, taking clear and accurate minutes and maintaining a record of actions to ensure agreed follow-ups are completed.</li><li>Act as a key point of contact for the executive, managing incoming enquiries and communications and ensuring matters are prioritised and directed appropriately.</li><li>Maintain effective communication between the executive and the wider business, ensuring information is conveyed clearly, accurately and with the appropriate level of discretion.</li><li>Build strong working relationships with senior stakeholders, business leaders, colleagues and external contacts, representing the executive and wider business professionally at all times.</li><li>Anticipate the executive's requirements and proactively identify potential issues, diary conflicts or outstanding actions before they become problems.</li><li>Use initiative and sound judgement to resolve day to day issues, providing practical solutions and recommendations rather than simply escalating matters.</li><li>Manage expenses, invoices and other administrative processes on behalf of the executive, ensuring these are completed accurately and within required timescales.</li><li>Coordinate arrangements for clients, visitors and external guests, providing a warm and professional welcome and maintaining the standards expected of the business.</li><li>Provide administrative and organisational support on adhoc projects and wider business initiatives, including property related and commercial projects where required.</li><li>Assist with the coordination of activities across associated businesses and entities, ensuring information and communication are managed effectively.</li><li>Maintain absolute confidentiality and discretion when handling sensitive, commercially confidential or personal information.</li><li>Take ownership of additional responsibilities as required, supporting the executive and wider leadership team in a proactive and flexible manner.</li></ul><h2>Person Specification</h2><h3>Essential</h3><ul><li>Proven experience as an Executive Assistant, Personal Assistant or similar senior support professional, ideally supporting a C-suite executive or senior leadership figure.</li><li>Exceptional organisational and time-management skills, with the ability to manage multiple competing priorities.</li><li>Outstanding attention to detail and a methodical approach to managing information and administration.</li><li>Calm and composed under pressure, with the ability to adapt quickly to changing requirements.</li><li>Excellent written and verbal communication skills.</li><li>Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to establish effective relationships across all levels of an organisation.</li><li>Highly professional, discreet and trustworthy, with a strong understanding of confidentiality.</li><li>Proactive, resourceful and self sufficient, with the ability to anticipate requirements and take ownership without constant direction.</li><li>Excellent judgement and the confidence to make sensible decisions within an executive support environment.</li><li>A solutions focused approach, with the ability to assess situations, identify options and recommend appropriate action.</li><li>Confident dealing with senior stakeholders and able to handle sensitive or challenging conversations with tact and diplomacy.</li><li>Naturally personable, with strong customer service skills and the ability to create a professional and welcoming experience for visitors and external contacts.</li><li>Strong IT skills, particularly Microsoft Office, Outlook, Word and PowerPoint.</li></ul><h3>Desirable</h3><ul><li>Previous experience within property, real estate, property development, hospitality or another commercially focused environment.</li><li>Experience supporting an executive whose responsibilities span multiple businesses, subsidiaries or business areas.</li><li>Experience working within a fast paced, entrepreneurial or growing organisation.</li><li>A relevant qualification in business administration, management or a related discipline.</li></ul><h2>Key Relationships</h2><ul><li>Senior Executive / Executive Leadership</li><li>Senior Leadership Team</li><li>Business and subsidiary leaders</li><li>Internal teams and colleagues</li><li>Clients and external stakeholders</li><li>Visitors and external guests</li></ul><p><br />This role would suit an experienced Executive Assistant who is confident operating at senior level, takes genuine ownership of their responsibilities and enjoys being a trusted and integral part of the executive's day to day operation.</p><p>reach out  for more information</p>

EA - Real Estate

<p><strong>Senior Sales Negotiator - New Homes</strong><br /><br /><strong>Location:</strong> West London<br /> <strong>Salary:</strong> Up to £38k basic + commission<br /> <strong>Contract:</strong> Full-time, five days a week including weekend working on a rota basis</p><h2>Highlights:</h2><ul><li>Join the on-site sales team for one of the largest regeneration schemes in London, an 88-acre former gasworks site being transformed into thousands of new homes</li><li>Work for a housebuilder recognised as Housebuilder of the Year, with a Platinum Award for Customer Satisfaction held for 12 consecutive years</li><li>Sell into a development moments from an Elizabeth line station, with journey times of 10 minutes to Heathrow and 13 minutes to Paddington</li><li>Be part of a scheme built around 13 acres of parkland and 8 acres of wetlands, developed in partnership with a leading wildlife charity</li></ul><h2>About the opportunity</h2><p><br />An award-winning national housebuilder is looking for a senior sales negotiator to join the sales team at its flagship regeneration scheme in West London. This 88-acre brownfield site, formerly home to a gasworks, is being redeveloped into a new residential-led neighbourhood comprising thousands of homes, alongside a high street of shops, restaurants and workspace, a cinema, a primary school and a health centre. You will be based on-site, working from the marketing suite and showhomes, engaging directly with prospective buyers throughout their purchasing journey.</p><h2>What makes the role exceptional</h2><p><br />You will be selling a genuinely large-scale product: a multi-decade masterplan with several distinct neighbourhoods, each designed by different architects, set around parkland, canal towpaths and green infrastructure connecting into a neighbouring country park. The housebuilder has a strong, independently verified reputation, having been ranked the UK's number one for build quality by HomeViews and holding multiple Queen's Awards for Enterprise in Sustainable Development. This track record gives negotiators a genuinely strong story to sell, backed by consistent five-star customer satisfaction ratings.</p><h2>Key responsibilities</h2><ul><li>Manage the end-to-end sales process for new build apartments, from initial enquiry through to legal completion</li><li>Conduct show home and marketing suite appointments, presenting the development and its wider masterplan to prospective buyers</li><li>Build and maintain a pipeline of qualified leads through proactive follow-up and relationship management</li><li>Liaise closely with solicitors, mortgage advisers and internal legal teams to progress sales smoothly</li><li>Achieve and exceed individual and team sales targets across the development</li><li>Maintain accurate records of reservations, sales progression and buyer communications on CRM systems</li><li>Support the wider sales and marketing team with events, launches and VIP appointments</li><li>Provide accurate market feedback and competitor insight to the sales management team</li></ul><h2>Requirements</h2><ul><li>Proven experience as a sales negotiator, ideally within new build or estate agency sales</li><li>Strong track record of achieving and exceeding sales targets</li><li>Excellent communication and relationship-building skills with a consultative sales approach</li><li>Confident presenting to individuals and groups in a show home or marketing suite setting</li><li>Comfortable managing a high volume of enquiries and progressing multiple sales concurrently</li><li>Working knowledge of the home buying and conveyancing process</li><li>Flexibility to work weekends as part of a rota</li><li>Full right to work in the UK</li></ul><p><br />Requirements for salary bandings will be discussed in the interview stages and screening calls.</p><h2>Rewards and benefits</h2><ul><li>The opportunity to represent a housebuilder with an established, award-winning reputation</li><li>Exposure to one of the largest and longest-running regeneration schemes in London</li><li>A structured career path within a well-resourced sales team</li><li>Involvement in a development with genuinely differentiated green and community infrastructure</li><li>The chance to build a strong personal network of buyers, solicitors and mortgage advisers</li></ul><h2>Equal opportunity strapline</h2><p><br />We are an equal opportunities recruiter, valuing diversity and inclusion and welcoming applications from all suitably qualified individuals, regardless of background.</p>

New Homes Senior Sales Negotiator - West London

<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" dir="ltr">If you are one or two years post qualified and looking for a role where finance actually sits at the heart of the business rather than off to one side, this is worth a read.</p><p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" dir="ltr">My client is one of the most respected names in ultra prime residential construction and interior architecture. Their projects are the kind that get written about, and the finance function has real visibility across leadership, project directors, and the wider commercial team. This role has been created to partner directly with project teams, own the numbers behind live jobs, and give the business the clarity it needs to make faster and better decisions.</p><p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" dir="ltr">You will be responsible for management accounts, project reporting, forecasting, and business partnering with non finance stakeholders. You will get into the detail on cost tracking, margin analysis, and cash on individual projects, and you will be the person the project leads come to when they need answers. There is genuine scope to shape how reporting is done and to grow with the business over the next few years.</p><p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" dir="ltr">We are looking for a qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with one to two years of post qualified experience, ideally with a background in construction, property, or project accounting. If you have worked in a project driven environment and you enjoy the commercial side of finance as much as the technical side, you will fit in well here.</p><p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" dir="ltr">The office is central London, the culture is grown up and collaborative, and there is flexibility on hybrid working.</p><p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" dir="ltr">If this sounds like the kind of move you have been waiting for, the quickest way to get a proper feel for the role is a short call. </p>

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<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" dir="ltr"><strong>Maintenance Operative</strong></p><p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" dir="ltr">We're recruiting on behalf of a well-established residential property client for an experienced Maintenance Operative to join their team. In this role, you'll play a key part in ensuring residents enjoy a safe, comfortable, and well-maintained living environment, handling a variety of maintenance tasks to keep the property in top condition.</p><p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" dir="ltr"><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></p><ul dir="ltr"><li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Perform routine maintenance and repairs on electrical, plumbing, and HVAC systems</li><li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Conduct inspections and identify issues in apartments and common areas</li><li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Respond promptly to resident maintenance requests and emergencies</li><li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Maintain cleanliness and organisation of maintenance areas and tools</li><li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Coordinate with external contractors for larger repairs and projects</li><li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Ensure compliance with safety regulations and building codes</li></ul><p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" dir="ltr"><strong>Requirements:</strong></p><ul dir="ltr"><li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Proven experience as a Maintenance Technician or in a similar role</li><li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Strong knowledge of building systems, including electrical, plumbing, and HVAC</li><li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail</li><li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Ability to work independently and as part of a team</li><li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Strong communication and interpersonal skills</li><li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Flexibility to handle emergency situations and after-hours work</li></ul><p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" dir="ltr">Interested candidates are encouraged to apply - we'd love to hear from you!</p>

Maintenance Operative

<p><strong>Job Title:</strong> Office Manager<br /><strong>Location:</strong> Regent Street, West London - (<strong>1 Day at Reading office)</strong><br /><strong>Schedule:</strong> Monday - Friday 9-5:30pm</p><p><strong>Salary: £40K + Bonus</strong></p><p><strong>Job Description:</strong></p><p>I'm currently seeking an experienced and proactive Office Manager to join a real estate team in West London (Oxford Circus) . The ideal candidate will be responsible for ensuring the smooth operation of the office environment and supporting our employees. This role involves a variety of administrative tasks, requiring excellent organisational skills and attention to detail.</p><p><strong>Key Responsibilities:</strong></p><ul><li><strong>Employee On boarding and HR:</strong><ul><li>Assist in on boarding new employees.</li><li>Maintain employee records and ensure HR compliance.</li><li>Handle employee inquiries on HR matters.</li></ul></li><li><strong>Office Management:</strong><ul><li>Manage office supplies, equipment, and mail distribution.</li><li>Develop and implement office policies and procedures.</li><li>Maintain a clean and organised work space.</li><li>Manage office supply inventory and order as needed.</li><li>Coordinate office equipment purchases and maintenance.</li></ul></li><li><strong>Administrative Support:</strong><ul><li>Coordinate schedules and meetings for executives and team members.</li><li>Answer calls and assist visitors.</li><li>Plan team-building activities and company events.</li><li>Arrange logistics for conferences and off-site events.</li><li>Coordinate employee travel arrangements.</li><li>Assist in developing and managing the office budget.</li></ul></li><li><strong>Health and Safety:</strong><ul><li>Ensure compliance with health and safety regulations.</li><li>Implement safety measures in the office.</li></ul></li><li><strong>Miscellaneous:</strong><ul><li>Handle miscellaneous administrative tasks.</li><li>Adapt to changing office needs and assist with special projects.</li></ul></li></ul><p><strong>Qualifications:</strong></p><ul><li>Proven experience as an Office Manager or in a similar administrative role.</li><li>Strong organisational and time management skills.</li><li>Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities.</li><li>Proficiency in office software (e.g., MS Office).</li><li>Knowledge of HR practices and compliance is a plus.</li><li>Ability to handle multiple tasks and prioritise effectively.</li><li>Attention to detail and problem-solving skills.</li><li>Ability to adapt to a dynamic work environment.</li></ul><p>If this sounds like something you would be interested in and have the necessary experience required, then feel free to apply. Alternatively, if you would like to know more information about the position then contact Jonathan Catt at deverellsmith for a more in-depth chat.<strong> </strong> </p><p><strong><em>We work as one</em></strong> <br /><em>The key to growth is in our differences, not similarities. Alongside our partners, building a diverse, inclusive and equal environment is at our core: everyone is made to feel welcome and encouraged to be their authentic self. Respect isn't an opt-in, it's the only way forward.</em> </p>

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