NYC Real Estate Acquisitions Associate

Rock Farmer Properties is seeking an experienced Real Estate Acquisitions Associate to help source, evaluate, structure, and execute investments across a diverse range of property types and strategies.
This is a hands‑on role for a transaction professional who can move fluidly between relationship‑driven sourcing, rigorous underwriting, investment judgment, and closing execution.

The Associate will take meaningful ownership of transactions from initial screening through closing, partner closely with senior management on investment strategy, and serve as a day‑to‑day leader for analysts and external deal teams. The successful candidate will be comfortable forming an independent view, communicating it clearly, and advancing multiple complex opportunities at once.

Rock Farmer Properties is seeking an experienced Real Estate Acquisitions Associate to help source, evaluate, structure, and execute investments across a diverse range of property types and strategies.
This is a hands‑on role for a transaction professional who can move fluidly between relationship‑driven sourcing, rigorous underwriting, investment judgment, and closing execution.

The Associate will take meaningful ownership of transactions from initial screening through closing, partner closely with senior management on investment strategy, and serve as a day‑to‑day leader for analysts and external deal teams. The successful candidate will be comfortable forming an independent view, communicating it clearly, and advancing multiple complex opportunities at once.

• Source and evaluate acquisition opportunities through brokers, owners, lenders, operating partners, and other market relationships; build and maintain an actionable pipeline.
• Lead initial screening and develop clear investment theses, including fit with the firm’s return objectives, strategy, risk parameters, and capital plan.
• Own underwriting and financial modeling across acquisition, development, and value‑add scenarios, including cash flows, debt and equity structures, sensitivities, waterfalls, and downside cases.
• Manage transaction diligence from launch through closing, coordinating legal, tax, engineering, environmental, zoning, insurance, financing, and other third‑party work streams.
• Prepare investment committee memoranda and presentations; synthesize key opportunities, risks, mitigants, returns, and open items, and present recommendations to senior decision‑makers.
• Support and, where appropriate, lead negotiations of letters of intent, purchase agreements, joint venture terms, financing documents, and other transaction materials alongside senior management and counsel.
• Develop capitalization strategies and evaluate debt, preferred equity, joint venture, and other partnership structures; cultivate relationships with lenders and capital partners.
• Partner with asset management, development, construction, accounting, and legal teams to validate business plans and ensure a disciplined transition from acquisition to execution.
• Review and guide analyst work product, establish clear deadlines and quality standards, and contribute to the continued improvement of underwriting tools, diligence processes, and market intelligence.
• Support investor materials, portfolio‑level analysis, and evaluation of new markets, asset classes, and investment strategies.

• 4–7 years of relevant experience in NYC multi‑family real estate acquisitions, investment banking, private equity, principal investing, development, or a closely related transaction‑focused role.
• Demonstrated experience underwriting and executing real estate transactions; direct exposure to sourcing and closing investments is strongly preferred.
• Advanced financial modeling…