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.