Residential Real Estate Paralegal

Description

Becker was honored by U.S. News & World Report as one of the best law firms to work for in both the 2024 and 2025 inaugural lists, reflecting our strong commitment to employee well‑being, professional development, and a supportive workplace culture. Come be a part of our award‑winning team! Becker is a diverse, multi‑practice, commercial law firm with offices in Florida, New York, New Jersey, Washington, D.C., and international affiliates.

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• Must be able to handle a moderate volume of residential real‑estate closings (25–30) from contract to closing.
  
  Duties include:
• Sending out welcome packages to both buyer and seller.
• Ordering title, lien search, survey, estoppel letters.
• Preparing preliminary CD and interacting with buyer’s lender to ensure compliance with TRID. Timeliness and immediateness of this task is key. This task must be done in conjunction with all other tasks, therefore organizational skills are mandatory. Do not apply unless your organizational skills are “type‑A”.
• Phone and email interaction with buyer, seller, agents, lenders to ensure all parties are kept up to date on the status of their files. If there are any issues with title, lien search, estoppel or anything, candidate must be able to communicate what the issue is to all parties and know who is responsible to addressing the issue.
• Have complete competence in how to resolve title issues, lien search issues, estoppel issues, and complete all processing duties to allow the closing to occur timely. Understand how to calendar critical dates and proactively request extensions. If candidate cannot manage files to remain contractually compliant – need not apply.
• Prepare for an organized closing which includes notifying all parties in advance of closing how much buyer needs to bring to closing, obtain agent wire instructions, obtain bank approval of closing statement, know what documents are required for funding the loan, organize the documents in a fashion that allows the funding number to be obtained while closing is still occurring.
• Understand how to balance a closing statement and incorporate lender funding “net” or “gross”. Understand how to do this with various software, Double Time, Ram Quest.
• Understand the swiftest and most efficient way to fund a transaction at the closing table so that all parties are happy and the closing is successful.
• Understand how to e‑record and what all documents mean and the importance of timely recording and timely delivery to parties of respective documents.
• Understand how to issue title policies in a timely fashion.

• Document Preparation
  • Must draft and understand residential and commercial real‑estate transactions, including:
    • Purchase and sales contracts
    • Due diligence timeline establishment
    • Preparation of critical date list
    • Calendar of critical dates
    • Preparation of Seller’s Documents (deed, bill of sale, affidavits, company resolutions)
    • Purchaser documents (promissory note, mortgage, closing documents)
  • (iv) Loan Documents for Financial Institutions (note, mortgage, assignment of leases, closing statements)
• Review of title, review of surveys, preparation of title commitments and policies, estoppel letters, payoffs pre and post closing matters; order all appropriate lien searches and review same.
• Must be able to prepare closing statements and loan packages.
• Due Diligence Activities
  • Complete due diligence activities, ability to process files from contract to closing and post‑closing. Must understand “Defined Terms” within a purchase and sales contract and have the ability to prepare, calendar and monitor contract critical dates. Ability to prepare a title commitment and satisfy Schedule B‑I title conditions and review Schedule B‑II title exceptions. Ability to interact with underwriter to remove title exceptions when necessary.
    
    Ability to work with loan closing specialists in preparing loan closing statements and completing other…