Land Buyer

Land Buyer

Maidstone, Kent

Up to £60,000 basic plus package

I’m working with one of Kent’s most respected SME housebuilders on a Land Buyer hire. They have spent over 25 years building stylish, high-quality homes across Kent, Sussex, London and Surrey, and they have the reputation to match, including five years running of gold-standard customer satisfaction.

Now they are scaling up and the land pipeline needs to keep pace. That is where you come in. This is a proper acquisition role at a business small enough for your decisions to count and established enough to back them.

The role:

• Source residential development opportunities through agents, landowners and off-market channels
• Appraise sites and run the financial viability from first look through to approval
• Negotiate land deals, options and conditional contracts
• Build and hold relationships with agents, promoters and landowners across the region
• Work with planning and technical teams to assess site potential and take acquisitions through to purchase

You:

• Land buying or land acquisition experience, ideally with a residential housebuilder or developer
• Confident running development appraisals and reading what makes a site viable
• Comfortable sourcing deals and negotiating terms
• Good working knowledge of the planning system and how it drives land value
• A network of agents and landowners, or the drive to build one quickly

The package:

• Up to £60,000 basic salary
• Car allowance
• Further package

Award-winning SME, not a national plc. Real influence over what gets bought and genuine autonomy from day one.

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