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# Overview

Real estate work runs on title diligence, deed and lease documentation, and regulatory pathways. The bottleneck most teams hit first is not the law. It is the documents. They come from the client in batches with no useful filenames, in mixed scans and formats, sometimes generations deep. Jurisphere's [Auto-folderize](https://jurisphere.gitbook.io/jurisphere-guide/auto-folderize) segregates the bundle robustly by looking at the content of each document, not the filename, which saves hours of paralegal sorting before any substantive work begins.

## The shape of the work

A typical real estate mandate moves from title diligence through structuring to RERA-compliant documentation. 

* [Auto-folderize](https://jurisphere.gitbook.io/jurisphere-guide/auto-folderize) is the upstream enabler: client document bundles arrive disorganised, and content-based segregation into deed, EC, mutation, RERA, and approval sub-folders is what makes everything downstream tractable. 
* [Document Review](https://jurisphere.gitbook.io/jurisphere-guide/document-review/workflows-on-document-review) and [Workflows](https://jurisphere.gitbook.io/jurisphere-guide/document-review/workflows-on-document-review) do the bulk of the work. 
  * The Title Chain Due Diligence workflow walks the chain of title and produces the first cut of the Title Search Report (TSR).
  * The Encumbrance Certificate and Title Search workflow runs in parallel.
  * The Litigation Check workflow surfaces existing disputes touching the property.
  * RERA Compliance Review runs against state-level Rules.
* The [Drafting Pane](https://jurisphere.gitbook.io/jurisphere-guide/drafting-on-document-review) handles the TSR write-up and the JDA. 

Pricing, structuring, review and risk-allocation calls remain with the partner.

## How the work moves

A mandate moves through the stages below. The detailed walkthrough — with the tools each stage uses and the call the lawyer still owns — is on the next page.

<table data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th data-hidden data-card-target data-type="content-ref"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>Pre-Transaction</strong></td><td>Research applicable real estate framework and structure the transaction.</td><td><a href="/pages/1e56e8461c5afe38c309eb7e487baf844b634d11#pre-transaction">/pages/1e56e8461c5afe38c309eb7e487baf844b634d11#pre-transaction</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Title Due Diligence</strong></td><td>Conduct title due diligence and prepare title chain.</td><td><a href="/pages/1e56e8461c5afe38c309eb7e487baf844b634d11#title-due-diligence">/pages/1e56e8461c5afe38c309eb7e487baf844b634d11#title-due-diligence</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Drafting</strong></td><td>Draft conveyance documents (sale deed, gift deed, conveyance, transfer deed).</td><td><a href="/pages/1e56e8461c5afe38c309eb7e487baf844b634d11#drafting">/pages/1e56e8461c5afe38c309eb7e487baf844b634d11#drafting</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Development</strong></td><td>Draft and review development agreements and JDA / TDR / area sharing structures.</td><td><a href="/pages/1e56e8461c5afe38c309eb7e487baf844b634d11#development">/pages/1e56e8461c5afe38c309eb7e487baf844b634d11#development</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>RERA Compliance</strong></td><td>Conduct RERA compliance review for project acquisitions and ongoing projects.</td><td><a href="/pages/1e56e8461c5afe38c309eb7e487baf844b634d11#rera-compliance">/pages/1e56e8461c5afe38c309eb7e487baf844b634d11#rera-compliance</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Negotiation</strong></td><td>Analyse counterparty mark-ups across deal documents.</td><td><a href="/pages/1e56e8461c5afe38c309eb7e487baf844b634d11#negotiation">/pages/1e56e8461c5afe38c309eb7e487baf844b634d11#negotiation</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Closing</strong></td><td>Prepare conditions precedent checklist, closing memo, and post-closing compliance tracker.</td><td><a href="/pages/1e56e8461c5afe38c309eb7e487baf844b634d11#closing">/pages/1e56e8461c5afe38c309eb7e487baf844b634d11#closing</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Real Estate Funds and REITs</strong></td><td>Structure and document REIT, InvIT, AIF, and large platform transactions.</td><td><a href="/pages/1e56e8461c5afe38c309eb7e487baf844b634d11#real-estate-funds-and-reits">/pages/1e56e8461c5afe38c309eb7e487baf844b634d11#real-estate-funds-and-reits</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

{% hint style="success" %}
**The shape of the time saved.** Real estate is a paperwork practice. The hours saved at intake by Auto-folderize compound through diligence, drafting, and continuing work. The Project where the deal was built becomes the workspace where the continuing work lives.
{% endhint %}


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