Any real estate lawyers here who travel as part of their role?

[Powergower]

I'm a RE lawyer and returned to work a few years ago after a short break. Really loving being back. Enjoy where I work and the work I do. I'm just so done with being stuck at a desk every day. It's live a role with more national and international travel. I had a difficult childhood and have always wanted to be out and about more but every role I've had has been office based. My kids are older now, and I'd love to travel more with work. There's very few property roles that facilitate travel. Do you travel as part of your role? Any advice?

I've worked in house before which I enjoyed. But no travel. I'm working at a great mid tier firm up north. I have worked in a top tier firm too. I'm wondering if working in a big firm again will open up options to travel. Any advice??

Are you American? What area of law are you working in? Do you mean trusts? Or land law? Where are you qualified? I assume you are a solicitor rather than a barrister?

Not American, British. Work in commercial property/ real estate. UK qualified. I've got so much to give and work really hard. Love my firm but want more.

I work for a very big RE asset manager. Our GC travels a bit but it’s not that frequent.

We use a panel of national firms for transaction work and they don’t seem to travel much either, except for some of the partners. If the transaction is complex we generally do a site visit of the asset being acquired, and a lot of transaction work is now being done by regional offices so I guess they must travel to London often.

I'll just have to keep looking. For the impossible it seems.

A friend does development site acquisitions at a firm in Bristol. She sometimes goes to see the new sites.

I'm not sure it's much of a thing for property solicitors tbh. We rarely have a need to look at the land in person if you think about it.

Could you re train as a surveyor?

I was at a magic circle firm doing RE - the only people who travelled much were the partners who were bringing in the clients. So they’d go off somewhere, shmooze potential new clients, have client update meetings etc.

Then fly back and dump loads of new work on the rest of us.

It was also possible (in fact encouraged) to go on secondments to overseas offices, but that means actually living abroad for at least 6 months which may be incompatible with your kids.

Honestly it’s just not a profession that involves a lot of overseas travel.

I used to travel a fair bit in England for site visits and client meetings, but that was still only every few months.