Senior Manager - Monitoring Surveyor - Transaction Execution
Homes England | National Housing Bank
£59,631- £79,464| Location: Hybrid 50/50 Our new Headquarters are in Leeds but colleagues can be based in any of our offices (Leeds, London, Newcastle, Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, Bristol, Northstowe)
As we are headquartered in Leeds our preference is to appoint to this location and priority will be given to applicants based within commuting distance of the Leeds office.
Homes England is launching the National Housing Bank, a government-backed investment platform to accelerate housing delivery across England.
With £16bn in capital, it will unlock private investment, support regeneration and accelerate housing delivery across the UK. Joining now offers a rare opportunity to shape a major new national investment platform from the ground up.
The role holder will be responsible for supporting the Loans teams to complete loan due diligence and follow internal processes in order to execute real estate lending transactions, leading in their area of expertise with a background as a Monitoring Surveyor or Quantity Surveyor. This role will focus on supporting all loan teams including Development Finance, Complex (structured real estate and infrastructure lending).
There will be a requirement to interact with external stakeholders (customers, solicitors and monitoring surveyors) and internal stakeholders from numerous teams within the Investment Directorate. The role holder will bring their specialist skills to evaluate due diligence in line with Homes England risk policy.
The opportunity
Responsibilities include:
- Maintain and manage relationships with external (panel) Monitoring Surveyor firms to ensure performance is consistent throughout the business and the appropriate level of skill and care is being adapted to the right transactions.
- Areas of specialty for this role include assessing Initial / Technical / Drawdown Reports produced by Monitoring /Quantity Surveyors.
- Advise the Transaction Execution team (and where relevant the Business Origination teams) on technical aspects of due diligence reports produced by panel appointed Monitoring Surveyors.
- Directly support the team with instructing Monitoring Surveyor reports , to ensure relevant due diligence reports are prepared that reflect the risk approved terms and the structure of the transaction.
- Ensuring that any other relevant reports (Environmental, Remediation, Archaeological, etc) are adequately reviewed by the appointed external Monitoring Surveyor
- Critically review the instructions given to any other relevant professionals (whether by Homes England or the borrower) in regard to their professional report to ensure that an appropriate scope was given relative to the risks and the structure of the underlying transaction.
- Critically review the Monitoring Surveyor report, Construction Report and any other related reports, liaise with internal colleagues and external professionals to raise relevant questions and have these reports amended where required to appropriately reflect the underlying transaction and to mitigate any highlighted areas of risk. To seek advice where needed in relation to the transaction and the relevant report, liaise with internal teams sch as Credit Risk to seek approval of the underlying Initial Monitoring Surveyors Report.
Candidate profile
- Degree level qualification and/or equivalent experience within the Finance/Banking/Investment/Real Estate field.
- Significant Monitoring Surveyor experience or RICS registered quantity Surveyor
- A strong understanding of residential property development and related property due diligence as well as the relevant risks of lending to residential developments (eg cost and planning risk ).
- Significant experience of working in industry and/or a lending or equity environment.
- Excellent attention to detail, and ability to communicate effectively to internal stakeholders around relevant due diligence.
- Strong communication and negotiation skills.
Why join?
- Help build a new national investment institution
- Work on complex housing and regeneration transactions
- Deploy £16bn of government-backed capital
- Hybrid 50/50 working across multiple national locations
- Defined benefit pension and strong public-sector benefits
Contact point for applicants
Name : Rebecca Nolan
Email : [email protected]
Recruitment team
Email : [email protected]
Closing date: 7th August 2026
Right to Work in the UK is required.
