Senior Legal Council - Real Estate

The Senior Legal Counsel – Real Estate will be a key legal adviser for Lendi Group's real estate, buyer’s agent, and agent-services businesses. This role involves providing expert, commercially focused guidance on regulatory, licensing, and operational matters, ensuring compliant growth and enabling new initiatives. The counsel will apply deep knowledge of national real estate and agent licensing laws to shape compliant growth, embed regulatory obligations, and support the design and implementation of new real estate initiatives and AI-enabled tools within the Group.

Must Have

• Provide high-quality, pragmatic legal advice.
• Lead legal support for real estate initiatives.
• Apply expert knowledge of real estate legislation and agent-licensing requirements.
• Develop and implement real estate compliance frameworks.
• Draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements.
• Advise on regulatory matters (real estate licensing, consumer law, franchising, privacy, data protection).
• Work closely with investigations, compliance, and risk teams.
• Stay ahead of legal and regulatory developments.
• 6+ years of legal experience.
• Law degree and current practicing certificate.
• Proven ability to interpret and apply real estate and agent services licensing regimes.
• Ability to proactively identify, understand, communicate, and act on risks.
• Attention to detail, confidentiality, and organisational discipline.
• Strong interpersonal skills.

Perks & Benefits

• A vibrant, relaxed, yet professional culture.
• Hybrid working arrangement designed to support work-life balance, while fostering meaningful connection and collaboration.
• A holistic wellbeing programs offering 24/7 support, including medical, mental health, and financial wellbeing services to enable our workforce to thrive at home and work.
• Generous paid Parental Leave: we celebrate our growing Lendi Group family with 18-26 weeks leave for primary carers and up to 4 weeks for secondary carers.
• An additional week’s Loyalty Leave each year after reaching 3 years’ service.
• Wellness initiatives with a strong focus on psychological safety.

Company Description

Lendi Group is a market-leading digital platform business that is focused on revolutionising the entire property journey. It operates Lendi - Australia’s original and #1 digital mortgage brand - and the iconic Aussie franchise.

Powered by an advanced AI proprietary platform, a national network of 1,300 brokers, 230 retail stores, a team of experienced buyer’s agents, integrated property search and conveyancing, Aussie is supporting customers at every step of their property journey to find, buy and own with more confidence than ever before. The Group’s loan book is more than $100b and it was named Australia’s Aggregator of the Year for 2024.

To learn more about life at Lendi Group check out our blog: https://www.lendi.com.au/inspire/category/life-at-lendi/

• Innovation at Our Core – We challenge the status quo and push boundaries to create better solutions, with a goal of becoming AI-native by June 2026.
• Work with the Best – Collaborate with some of the brightest minds in fintech, financial services, and strategy.
• Make an Impact – Contribute to meaningful projects that shape our business and the future of property finance.
• Grow & Evolve – Develop your skills and advance your career in a fast-moving, purpose-driven environment.

About the role

The Senior Legal Counsel – Real Estate is a key legal adviser supporting the real estate, buyer’s agent and agent-services businesses. This role provides expert, commercially focused guidance on regulatory, licensing and operational matters that underpin our growing real estate ecosystem. With deep experience in national real estate and agent licensing laws, you will shape compliant growth, enable new initiatives and embed regulatory obligations into day-to-day operations across the Group.

Job Description

• Provide high-quality, pragmatic legal advice to the real estate, buyer’s agent and agent-services businesses, ensuring commercial outcomes while managing legal and regulatory risk.
• Lead legal support for real estate initiatives including Buyer’s Agents, Aussie for Agents and broader agent-services programs, ensuring these offerings are compliant, scalable and effectively integrated into the wider business.
• Apply expert knowledge of real estate legislation, national and state-based agent-licensing requirements and related regulatory frameworks, translating complex obligations into practical, operational guidance.
• Develop, refine and implement real estate compliance frameworks, policies and processes—embedding “compliant-by-design” principles in new products, business models and service lines.
• Draft, review and negotiate commercial agreements relevant to real estate service delivery, partnership arrangements, supplier relationships and technology enablement.
• Advise on regulatory matters spanning real estate licensing, consumer law, franchising, privacy, data protection and broader corporate and commercial issues impacting agent-led services.
• Support business units as they design and implement new real estate initiatives, system changes, AI-enabled tools, growth strategies and operational enhancements.
• Work closely with investigations, compliance and risk teams on matters involving procedural fairness, agent conduct, governance and regulatory inquiries.
• Stay ahead of legal and regulatory developments affecting real estate, agent services, franchising and financial services, providing clear guidance on impacts and required action.
• Build strong relationships with operational teams, leaders and stakeholders, acting as a trusted adviser who influences decisions and balances commercial and legal considerations.
• Manage interactions with external legal advisers on real estate-related matters, aiming to maximise in-house capability and minimise external spend.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of legal processes, templates and playbooks, with an emphasis on real estate compliance, agent operations and scalable service design.
• Support broader Group-wide legal needs as required, including corporate, commercial, regulatory and incident-related work.

Qualifications

• 6 plus years of legal experience
• Law degree and current practicing certificate
• Proven ability to interpret and apply real estate and agent services licensing regimes and related legislation, with demonstrated experience in real estate, franchising, or similar regulatory licensing environments.
• Ability to proactively identify, understand, communicate and act on current and future risks
• Proven attention to detail, confidentiality, and organisational discipline.
• Strong interpersonal skills with ability to build and maintain strong relationships and influence others

Additional Information

Group teams operate across Australia and the Philippines. Bringing together diverse expertise, innovative technology and a customer-first approach, our teams work seamlessly to simplify the property journey, helping Australians find, buy and own property with confidence.

We support our people in a variety of ways, but a few of the benefits that our people rave about include:

• A vibrant, relaxed, yet professional culture.
• Hybrid working arrangement designed to support work-life balance, while fostering meaningful connection and collaboration.
• A holistic wellbeing programs offering 24/7 support, including medical, mental health, and financial wellbeing services to enable our workforce to thrive at home and work.
• Generous paid Parental Leave: we celebrate our growing Group family with 18-26 weeks leave for primary carers and up to 4 weeks for secondary carers.
• An additional week’s Loyalty Leave each year after reaching 3 years’ service.
• Wellness initiatives with a strong focus on psychological safety.

We’re committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive community at Group. We believe that a team reflecting the world around us leads to greater innovation, stronger collaboration, and a more engaging workplace.

Our culture is guided by our 3 core values: We Are Stronger United; Act Like You Own It; and Keep Home Loans Human. Our values are part of our core DNA that helps Group to attract, engage and evolve the right talent and build best-in-class products.

This is an opportunity to shape the future of a fast-growing, purpose-driven company that’s transforming the homeownership journey.

Ready to contribute to Group’s next chapter? Apply now and be part of something big!

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