Real Estate Asset Manager

Responsibilities

• Manage the portfolio of real estate leases, ensuring option notice deadlines are met and rents align with the current market.
• Oversee the lease renewal process by negotiating directly with landlords and their representatives, achieving reductions in rent liability and other beneficial lease modifications.
• Draft and modify legal documents to reflect agreements between landlords and tenants.
• Interpret and advise management on all terms of real estate leases and related documents.
• Prepare and compose supporting documents, including leases, subleases, exhibits, addendums, tenant improvement work letters, and amendments/extensions.
• Ensure all final documents are approved and executed by multiple levels of management.
• Intensively and creatively negotiate (both written and verbal) with the company’s landlords to achieve desired modifications to real estate leases.
• Draft legal documents for review (typically amendments to leases).
• Provide updates on the status of leases and negotiations to various in-house parties.
• Ensure various legal documents are recorded and returned to county clerks/recorders.

Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in real estate portfolio management and/or real estate lease transactions.
• Bachelor’s degree and/or paralegal certificate preferred.
• 2-3 years’ experience drafting and negotiating commercial real estate leases and related legal documents.
• Verbal and written language and grammatical skills, including the ability to interpret and abstract complex lease documents, independently draft real estate-related legal documents, and negotiate final lease terms with landlords and their attorneys.
• Highly organized and able to manage multiple projects with attention to detail.
• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook, as well as Adobe Acrobat.