Real Estate Transaction Manager: Due Diligence & Closings

11North Partners; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

11North Partners is seeking a Transaction Manager to run due diligence and closings across acquisitions, financings, and dispositions, owning the legal and document work that keeps deals moving. This role connects our investment team, outside counsel, lenders, title, and third-party advisors to push deadlines and ensure nothing falls through the cracks from LOI to post-closing.

Beyond live deals, the role reviews NDAs and routine contracts, abstracts retail leases, supports lease administration,

Qualifications

• 4+ years CRE experience as paralegal/transaction manager/closing coordinator.
• Hands-on experience running diligence and closings.
• Experience reviewing and negotiating NDAs and commercial agreements.
• Working knowledge of PSAs, loan documents, title commitments, surveys, estoppels.
• Experience reviewing and abstracting commercial leases.
• Advanced Excel and Word; comfortable with data rooms.

Responsibilities

• Own the diligence process for each live transaction from signed LOI through closing, including kickoff, request lists, workstream assignments, and weekly status updates to the deal team.
• Build and maintain deal-level diligence trackers, critical-date schedules, and open-issues lists; follow up with sellers, brokers, and advisors until every item is received and reviewed.
• Manage third-party reports (title, survey, zoning, PCA, environmental, appraisal) from engagement through delivery, and flag exceptions and risks to the investment and legal teams.
• Organize and control virtual data rooms, both incoming seller data rooms and our own for lenders, partners, and buyers.
• Run UCC, lien, litigation, entity-authority, and public-record searches and summarize findings.
• Drive closing timelines against PSA and loan deadlines, including deposits, diligence period expiration, extension notices, and closing dates.
• Coordinate with outside counsel, title, lenders, and escrow on closing checklists, signature packages, funds flow, recording, and deliverables.
• Prepare and track transaction documents such as estoppels, SNDAs, assignments, entity resolutions, incumbency certificates, and closing certificates.
• Manage post-closing items, including document distribution, closing binders, tenant notices, and the handoff to asset management, leasing, and accounting.

Skills

Commercial real estate

Diligence management

Closing coordination

Advanced Excel

MS Word

Education

Paralegal certificate

Bachelor's degree

Tools

VTS

Yardi

Virtual data rooms

Job description

11North Partners is seeking a Transaction Manager to run due diligence and closings across acquisitions, financings, and dispositions, owning the legal and document work that keeps deals moving. This role connects our investment team, outside counsel, lenders, title, and third-party advisors to push deadlines and ensure nothing falls through the cracks from LOI to post-closing.

Beyond live deals, the role reviews NDAs and routine contracts, abstracts retail leases, supports lease administration,