Surveyor / Senior Surveyor (City Leasing)

The role

We are looking for an enthusiastic, confident and conscientious individual to join an ambitious City Leasing team as a Surveyor/ Senior Surveyor. The role presents an opportunity for the individual to work within a dynamic and vibrant office environment, alongside a well-established and experienced team, assisting with the marketing and leasing of an enviable book of business, covering the London City, City Fringe, Midtown and Docklands markets.

The candidate will be expected to develop a thorough understanding of the Central London office market and day-to-day will cover a broad range of activities such as undertaking building inspections, preparing for and attending client meetings, preparing marketing material and generally assisting the Directors with the functions of the Team.

The City Leasing team value culture and team working ethos and are therefore looking for an individual who shares similar values. 

Roles and responsibilities

•    Undertaking building inspections and presentations.

•    Preparing for (and attending) client meetings.

•    Actively monitor and respond to tenant and agent enquiries.

•    Actively market properties and report to clients with regular updates.

•    Prepare schedules of active demand, and available supply and recent transactions.

•    Liaise with external data companies, online portals and in-house marketing team to ensure online portals are up to date.

•    Collate various types of data, maintain databases and in some cases data analysis.

•    Assist with team administrative tasks and systems.

•    Assist with the preparation of marketing material.

•    Network with leasing agents to gain market intel and develop relationships.

•    Keep up to date with market trends & activity, reporting to the team and to clients.

•    Promote and raise the profile of the leasing team both externally and internally.

•    Liaise with counterparts in other key departments to cross-sell ideas and information.

•    Be capable of working independently but with guidance where required.

•    Demonstrate a broad knowledge of the principles and practices of commercial real estate.

Person specification

Essential qualifications

•    Ideally educated to degree level.

•    Ideally MRICS qualified but not essential.

•    Preference for some experience in real estate, preferably commercial.

•    Enthusiastic.

•    Ambitious.

•    Conscientious.

•    Strong communication skills

•    Strong social skills 

•    Excel and PowerPoint skills to reasonable understanding.

Essential experience

•    A record of delivery within the UK Real Estate market, with a transactional background and track record of assisting/ delivering deals on behalf of Landlords

•    Working as a collaborative and productive member of a team of colleagues

•    Previous experience and evidence of enhancing team performance through growth and profitability

•    Developing market profile through transactional activity and the managing client leasing instructions