Full Job Description
Job Description
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The ideal candidate for this position should be detail-oriented, have excellent organizational skills, and have extensive commercial real estate expertise that contributes to the timely execution of transactions and complex contracts. Experience in complex land acquisitions for land development is a plus. Day-to-day job responsibilities include reviewing and abstracting for detailed closing checklists and timelines complex land acquisition and sale contracts; preparing and updating daily detailed closing checklists and timelines; maintaining detailed calendars and support for deadlines on over 50 at any given time; and preparing real estate contracts and amendments and closing documents for complex property acquisitions and dispositions.
Responsibilities
- Review title commitments and underlying documents; prepare title summaries identifying title issues; confer with title agents, and underwriters to limit title requirements and exceptions as appropriate.
- Review surveys; prepare survey summaries identifying any survey inadequacies or title issues; confer with surveyors, title agents, and underwriters to correct survey inadequacies and limit survey exceptions included on title commitments.
- Prepare draft legal documents for attorney review and further modification, including without limitation, purchase and sale agreements, amendments to contracts, closing documents, and title objection letters.
- Create and maintain contract critical dates lists.
- Assist in the processing of real estate closings.
Qualifications
- High School diploma or equivalent required
- Minimum 8 years’ experience in a real estate paralegal position within a law firm/corporate in-house/title insurance company; must have significant experience reviewing title and processing title for commercial real estate transactions; experience with residential development is a bonus, but not required.
- Excellent command of the English language; written and verbal
- Excellent grammar/spelling
- Strong Microsoft Word and Excel
Salary $85-97K plus good benefits
