eFinancialCareers

• Company

  BlackRock Inc.

• Location

  USA-NJ-Morristown

• Compensation

  not disclosed

• Position Type

  Employee

• Employment type

  Full time

• Updated

  21 Nov 2008

• eFC Ref no

  470729

Real Estate Market Research Analyst

BlackRock offers a range of investment products—equity, fixed income, liquidity, and alternative investment—each of which is managed by a dedicated investment team of portfolio managers, research analysts, and traders. Focused portfolio management and proprietary research are the cornerstones of our investment philosophy, and portfolio construction is based on each team’s market outlook.

Our portfolio teams manage assets for institutional and individual investors alike. Accordingly, all of our clients benefit from our portfolio management expertise and risk management analytics.

BlackRock Real Estate:

Manages over $23 billion in private real estate debt and equity in the U.S., Europe, Australia and Asia. Real estate investments span a wide range of strategies, including core, value-add and opportunistic equity and high-yield debt for a premier list of institutional and private investors.

Summary:

We are looking for a highly motivated, data-savvy individual with experience analyzing, and interpreting real estate market fundamentals. The primary responsibilities of the analyst is to monitor the real estate property markets and how they pertain to our real estate portfolios.

The Research Analyst is responsible for performing real estate market research to support the firm in its investment strategies, acquisitions, portfolio, property management, and property sales programs. Conduct real estate market analysis, which focuses on real estate, economic and demographic trends and write overviews that summarize the results of this research. The analyst will also assist in developing models to predict the various influences on real estate performance such as submarket forecasting and portfolio attribution models.

Qualifications:

The successful candidate will have a minimum of one-year of experience in real estate property market, financial or economic analysis with strong analytical and computer skills. Must have a Degree in Real Estate, Economics, Geography or related field. Skilled at creative problem solving and deductive reasoning. A strong knowledge of the Windows environment and Microsoft products including Excel and Access is also necessary. Knowledge of EViews, S-Plus, Arc-View, SQL and/or Visual Basic skills are a plus. Must also possess excellent verbal and written communication as well as analytical skills.