Conduct real estate market research across asset types, maintain data integrity, analyze market trends, and develop reports, presentations, pitches, and white papers. The role creates narratives around market participants and demand drivers, evaluates research resources, supports national and global initiatives, trains brokers on tools, and mentors junior staff. Success requires strong analytical, writing, communication, data management, Excel, and PowerPoint skills.
Responsibilities
Essential Job Duties:
- Contribute to a growing research platform covering all asset types in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
- Maintain data integrity and utilize proprietary and third-party resources to create market-leading insight and client deliverables.
- Support presentations, pitches, and white papers with original analysis and creative insights.
- Understand and develop narratives around market demand drivers and market participants, including owners, lenders, and occupiers.
- Participate in evaluating new resources and existing products.
- Track and analyze data in support of national and global research initiatives.
- Promote the research function and its capabilities to brokers and sales professionals, including trainings on new resources and technologies.
- Mentor, train and coach more junior research staff members.
- May perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Skills, Education and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree
- Minimum 1-3 years professional experience in real estate analysis, market research or related field
- Ability to identify trends and create reports with charts, narrative, and other creative visuals
- Outgoing personality and effective communicator
- Strong analytical and writing skills
- Ability to digest complex data or concepts into understandable, concise content
- Experience with data entry and database management
- Advanced skills in Excel and PowerPoint. Proficiency in other MS Office programs
- Demonstrated client-facing experience
- Familiarity with CoStar, Real Capital Analytics, Axiometrics, Trepp, ESRI, and JobsEQ a plus
- Experience with PowerBI and other dashboarding tools a plus
Ability to handle multiple tasks and prioritize workload in a fast-paced environment
Newmark Chicago, Illinois, USA Office
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