Homeowner Officer

Homeowner Officer

Title: Homeowner Officer

Contract Type: FTC  (9 Months)
Persona: Agile
Reporting office: London, Stratford/ North West,  Manchester 

Interviews will be held on: TBC  2024

Starting salary: £30,173 London, £26,295 Manchester

 
Closing date for completed applications: 22 January 2024 at 23.59pm

We are currently looking to recruit Homeowner Officers to cover a Maternity Leave. The role sits within the Homeownership Team, who are responsible for assisting homeowners to sell their homes, providing information to solicitors for prospective purchasers; helping residents purchase further shares through the process called ‘staircasing’; processing lease extensions; re-mortgages and subletting requests; administering the Right to Buy and Right to Acquire, and other purchase option schemes; and, dealing with general lease enquiries and restrictions.

To succeed in this role, you must be customer focused, have a positive attitude, be an excellent communicator and be able to multitask. You need to have the ability to work on your own initiatives and meet deadlines, you will also need experience gained from a housing or legal background. Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail is also essential in this role.

You will have a varied workload which will require you to have a good working knowledge of Homeownership products such as Shared Ownership Applications, Right to Buy and Resales. The role will require you to prepare written documentation to be sent to our customers, so experience of letter/report writing is essential.   

As you will be dealing with customers, solicitors, mortgage lenders, surveyors, financial advisors and other internal departments it is desirable to have experience in property conveyancing processes and have knowledge of leasehold/shared ownership products.

If you are interested in this role and have the experience required, then apply without delay!
  

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