Rural Surveyor
Join our Rural Consultancy team as a Rural Surveyor. Deliver expert advice, valuations and strategic solutions while growing your career in a collaborative, market-leading team.
Role Overview
Clients come to us, because we are committed to the business of the countryside. Whatever the type of property, whether a farm or estate each of our experienced experts has a specialism relating to our clients’ needs. You will ideally be based out of our Aberdeen office, though you could be partially based in Inverness and Perth offices.
Key responsibilities:
•Red Book Valuation for all purposes, including tax and trust advice, loan security, financial reporting and expert witness for a wide range of rural and prime assets across Scotland
•Advising mainly private clients in relation to access and rights issues
•Provision of strategic advice for agricultural landlords and tenant including rent reviews, tenancy relinquishments and assignments
•Identifying opportunities for new business
•Capability as expert witness
•High level negotiations and ability to deal with contentious disputes
•Shows leadership qualities in multi-disciplinary jobs or complicated projects
•Advanced project management skills
•Enhanced development of network of intermediaries and referrers of business
•Thought leadership and innovative approach to winning new business and developing new service lines
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What we offer you:
Career and Professional Development
25-30 Days Annual Leave, depending on grade
Life Assurance
Private Medical Scheme
Virtual GP
Global Mobility Scheme
Rewards Platform
Company Pension Scheme
Enhanced Incremental Annual Leave
Find out more about Savills offer
Team Overview
The successful candidate will join our Scotland Rural Consultancy Team, working alongside colleagues based in our Perth, Edinburgh, Inverness and Dumfries offices. We provide both strategic and day-to-day advice to a diverse range of clients across the rural sector.
Recruitment agencies
Savills only pay agency fees where we have a signed agreement in place and that agency has been previously contacted and directed by a member of our recruitment team. We do not pay agency fees when speculative and unsolicited CVs are submitted to Savills or any of our employees other than via our careers website and through our recruitment process. If this is not adhered to, agency fees will not be paid.
Submission of any unsolicited CVs or proposals to Savills will be deemed evidence of full and unlimited acceptance of this approach.

- Business area
- Rural & Projects
- Locations
- Perth, Aberdeen, Inverness
- Contract Type
- Permanent, Full time
- Remote Status
- This role is expected to be mainly working from home
- Salary
- Competitive
Our offer
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Holiday
We understand the importance of a work life balance and offer you a generous holiday entitlement, which increases throughout your career as you progress through our job levels or reach service milestones.
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Health
Your wellbeing and that of your family is as important to us as it is to you. We offer Virtual Gp, Digital Health, Private Medical Scheme and mental health support amongst other benefits.
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Lifestyle
We promote a healthy work life balance, supported by our approach to flexible working and our wide variety of health, wellbeing and social programmes.
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Our Offer
Read more about our benefits and culture in our offer overview below
Values
No matter the role you’re in, we all share one purpose: to help people thrive through places and spaces. This is built into our DNA, shaping the way we behave to deliver the best results. We define it by four key values:
We listen: Tell us your goals and aspirations and we’ll provide the support you need to achieve them. We appreciate the individual value of every team member and create an environment where you can reach your full potential.
We empower: Here, there’s no limit to what you can achieve. We give you opportunities to have a real, positive impact in the community through the work you do, backed by access to our market-leading research and insights.
We challenge: The best results happen when we question the status quo. We create an environment where you can safely challenge our thinking, bringing fresh ideas to the table to innovate as a team.
We collaborate: When you join Savills, you become part of a 40,000-strong network of driven individuals, all sharing their knowledge and experience to push the real estate industry forward.
At the heart of it all, we deliver best-in-class insights and advice to help people make better property decisions. We're looking for colleagues who will help us on this mission. When you join Savills, our ask for you is simple – to be extraordinary, together.
About Savills
Over 42,000 people work for us in more than 70 countries all over the world. This breadth of global coverage, combined with specialist services and market insight, means we'll always have an expert who is local to you.