A law firm in Vancouver is looking for an Intermediate to Senior Commercial Real Estate Paralegal to join our busy real estate team. This position will service both our Surrey and Vancouver offices but be located in our Vancouver office. This is an INoffice position.
Salary is $77000 to $95.000 requiring 5 to 7 years experience.
Overview:
Organize and manage m residential development closings including maintenance of trust balances for deposits creating Excel datasheets preparation of developer's information packages collection and management of closing doents for each strata lot payout and disburse sale proceeds for each strata lot.
The responsibilities include:
- Preparing and drafting all legal doents correspondence and accounts required for completion of the real estate transactions including review of purchase contracts (for purchaser) and sale contracts (for vendors)
- Liaise with clients financial institutions counsel and other external parties as needed
- Preparing and monitoring critical dates memo and preparing closing agenda and/or reviewing compiling checklists;
- Conducting and reviewing offtitle due diligence searches titles plans and name searches;
- Drafting comprehensive reporting letter to client on all title and due diligence matters;
- Reviewing tenancy agreements service contracts mortgages and etc. to be umed on closing;
- Drafting modification agreement notice of subject removal confirmation of deposit and closing dates ignment of purchase agreements and notices to be delivered;
- Drafting transactional purchase and sale doents which may include: Form A Transfer beneficial transfer bare trust doents notices and directions directors and shareholders resolutions property transfer tax returns ignment agreements (leases service contracts management agreements permitted enbrances) bill of general general conveyance doents HST/GST certificates statutory declaration
- Drafting complex statements of adjustments after reviewing property tax notices rent rolls lease and tenancy agreements financial statements service contracts etc.
- Drafting all correspondence on file including undertakings and dealing with clients property managers surveyors realtors municipal offices land title staff and agents and lawyers
- Liaising with lender's lawyers including review of commitment letter and preconditions to funding; arranging for and following up with delivery of required doents; obtaining and reviewing corporate records and conducting company searches to ist with providing opinion; preparing underlying directors resolutions; obtaining insurance certificates; receiving reviewing and arranging for of financing doents; returning financing doents on appropriate undertakings;
- Attending to electronic filing of transaction doents in land title office including dealing with agents and arranging for meets with other lawyers
- Attending to closing of transaction receiving or paying out of funds; clearing title; postclosing follow up; drafting final reporting letters and embling closing doents books and confirming satisfaction of undertakings within transaction
- All related reporting and billing.
- Other duties as required.
Job requirements include:
- 5 7 plus years’ experience as a real estate paralegal (land development)
- Strong ability to prioritize and handle a high volume of work in a fastpaced environment
- Ability to run files from beginning to end
- Ability to work independently but also as part of a team
- Strong computer ss
- Strong attention to detail and organizational ss
- Strong oral and written communication ss
- Good ytical and problemsolving abilities
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