Estates Surveyor
Daily rate: £450 per day
Location: Coventry office based with occasional work from home
Contract: 3 months with review for extension
Working hours: Monday-Friday 9 to 5
Opus People Solutions are recruiting on behalf of Coventry Borough Council for a Estates Surveyor to provide support in managing a substantial case load of rent reviews and lease renewals ensuring the cases are actioned within required timeframes.
Purpose of the Role:
The post holder will have A good knowledge of Landlord & Tenant legislation, property management and RICS professional codes of practice. They will have a good understanding of the rent review and lease renewal process and the ability to carry out professional work and negotiations with limited supervision.
Responsibilities will include:
- Negotiate wayleaves, easements and access licences and respond promptly to applications
- to assign, sub-let and alter
- Work with the Property Management team in the preparation and setting of service charge
- budgets; and in the identification and carrying out of repair, improvement and health and
- safety works.
- Monitor rent arrears within allocated portfolio and work with Incomes team and Legal team to
- ensure each arrears case is considered tactically to protect the Council's position
- Manage the void properties within allocated portfolio ensuring appropriate actions are taken
- to both minimize the void period and to secure the best terms for a new letting.
- Carry out property inspections, build relationships with tenants and investigate queries and
- complaints, reporting promptly to Estates Surveyor Manager with recommendations to
- resolve issues.
- Any other duties and responsibilities within the range of the salary grade.
The successful candidate will have a good knowledge of Landlord & Tenant legislation, property management and RICS professional codes of practice, have experience of managing external agents and contractors and be Educated to Degree level with Membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS)
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