Planning and Real Estate Analyst
- Assist project managers with a variety of the firm’s assignments
- Professionally interact with clients in person, through phone conversations and email correspondence, respecting confidentiality and the value of their time
- Conduct in-depth research (typically online or through personal interviews) of real estate markets, local economic trends, neighborhoods, area social services, transportation routes, etc.
- Identify appropriate market areas from which developments will generate greatest demand
- Select and analyze comparable properties
- Field work including touring and photographing development sites, market areas, and comparable properties
- Evaluate impacts of proposed developments on local economies, and assess economies’ potential to support proposed developments
- Conduct demographic analysis of regional real estate markets
- Collect competitive market intelligence through online research, cold calling, and other methods
- Analyze proposed rents/sale prices for practicality and competitiveness within regional markets
- Analyze operating expense pro formas, and recommend budgetary modifications as needed
- Identify and describe potential development risks or opportunities
- Calculate statistical demand for real estate ventures, interpreting complex data in a concise, comprehensible manner
- Collaborate with project managers to prepare reports and memos that engage a broad range of audiences
- Follow the firm’s report templates and guidelines, or those provided by client
- Write in a clear and concise manner
- Use photographs, tables, charts, and graphs consistently and appropriately
- Integrate written and quantitative analysis with graphic and visual elements
- Create graphics that convey numeric analysis
- Devise infographics that concisely summarize key findings
- Minimal travel; may increase with experience