Real Estate Associate at One StepAhead Consulting

One StepAhead Consulting is your one-stop-shop HR Solutions provider, helping you turn your business goals into reality with our comprehensive suite of strategic HR Solutions. We have identified the need to support organizations to ensure optimum service delivery which includes meeting legal requirements, hiring and retaining the best talents, and improving business efficiency.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Real Estate Associate

Location: Victoria Island, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

key Duties Responsibilities

• Actively pursue business opportunities, maintain excellent relationships with existing clients, and expand client base.
• Follow-up on new clients to increase the company’s client database.
• Develop and increase sales by following up on potential clients through inspections.
• Develop innovative ideas to boost sales.
• Coordinate closing of deals and signing of document schedule.
• Build and maintain an excellent relationship with clients on an ongoing basis.
• Protect the organization’s value by keeping information confidential.
• Understand the specifications for all properties and communicate them effectively.
• Develop, establish, and maintain market strategies to meet organizational objectives.
• Negotiates contracts and packages.
• Oversee the preparation and approval of documents such as lease agreements, letter of offer, rental breakdown, and contracts.
• Coordinate the closing of property deals to ensure vital documents are signed and payment received.
• Facilitate arrangements to give prospective tenants a view of a property before concluding a sales deal.
• Conduct the inspection of properties to ensure the terms and conditions of lease/sales are met before closing deals.
• Conduct surveys to identify prices of competing properties on the property market.
• Monitor the property market to identify individuals with interest in property to convince them and secure a deal.
• Maintain contact with clients to have openings to discuss future business prospects.
• Keep detailed records of tenants leasing the properties.
• Follow up on rent renewal, collection of rent when due and send out reminders for payment of rent and service charges.
• Provide periodic reports to company management on sales operations and generated returns.
• Carry out pre-tenancy works, property inspections, and pro-active and re-active reports for property portfolio.
• Attend to items marked on check out the report and send dilapidation claim to Project Manager.
• Send agreed dilapidations in the schedule to the tenant; carry out negotiations between both management & tenant.
• Print off daily/weekly error and warning reports for funds, and work orders.
• Response to clients’ verbal enquiries and report instructions in a timely manner
• Complete leasing and sales transactions efficiently and professionally
• Respond to all enquiries in a professional manner, including submitting listings and providing market advice.
• Update and increase database contacts and input related information of properties and tenants onto the client contacts management system.
• Perform other functions that may be assigned by management.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Business, Estate Management, Facilities Management, or a related discipline
• Minimum of 5 years experience in property lease, sales, and management
• Relevant professional qualifications
• Holder of Estate Agent’s licence will be an added advantage
• Good command of both written and spoken English
• Proficient in MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Experience in consultancy and valuation work would be an advantage.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, client networking, and presentation skills
• Good people management skills
• Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Responsible, lots of initiative, mature, and self-motivated with excellent service attitude.

Application Closing Date
12th October, 2023.