Leasing Associate
Location: 180 Stratford, E15 2FD
Salary: £29,160 + bonus + benefits
Hours: 37.5 hours per week. Leasing Associates work 5 days out of 7,between the hours of 8am and 8pm. Weekends will be required on a rota basis.
The role
Join Unite Group and be part of our friendly team. Your top priorities will be delivering an outstanding leasing journey whilst providing excellent customer service. As a Leasing Associate, you will have the opportunity to make a real impact at work, enriching lives with meaningful interactions.
In this BTR environment, you`ll be supporting a diverse community of residents, building long?`term relationships and ensuring they feel at home from the moment they enquire through to move?`in and beyond.
What you`ll be doing as a Leasing Associate:
Manage all new enquiries, viewings and the lettings process, including renewals.
Manage the resident contracting process, ensuring compliance with all standards, legislation and Uniteprocesses, controls and policies
Manage applicant checks, including referencing, ensuring that applicants are correctly screened and commercial risk managed
Undertake inspections of both occupied and vacant properties, to ensure apartments are maintained at the required standard, reporting breaches or maintenance issues
Manage Rightmove listings: Regularly monitor how many and for how long properties are on line.
Complete weekly competitor analysis on the local market
Prepare show homes for viewings
Support the ongoing function of the office and availability to residents by manning phones, lobby spaces and adopting different roles if required due to holiday cover
Organise and attend Events held for residents.
Act as a positive ambassador for the Unite Groupoffer at all available opportunities
Assist team members with ad hoc tasks where required
What we`re looking for:
- A caring, warm person with a positive attitude
- An excellent communicator; as a Leasing Associate you`ll be happy to chat to our students and answer their questions
- You`ll also have great time management and organisational skills
What you`ll get in return:
- An annual bonus so you can share in the company`s success
- 5 weeks paid holiday per year, plus bank holidays
- Pension scheme - based on how much you save, we`ll contribute 1% more
- Shared Parental Leave - 18 weeks full pay
- We`ve earned a Gold award for Investors in People, so you`ll be working for an employer who really cares about you and your career
- Other benefits include, ShareSave, Bike to Work, Charity Match, amazing discounts and more!
Founded in 1991, Unite Group is the UKs leading provider of purpose-built student accommodation. You can find us in 25 leading university towns and cities, with 74,000 students calling US home! We have since moved into non-student letting, buying our young professional first build-to-rent property in Stratford, London.We are driven by our values, culture, and a commitment to develop diverse and inclusive teams, filled with positive energy and new ideas.
Instinctive inclusion. We know that to create and maintain a happy healthy organisation, we have to work hard to ensure inclusion isn`t just what we do but who we are.
People make Unite Group. Employees, residents, neighbours all contribute to building environments where we can all thrive.
Room for Everyone
We`re proud to be an employer that embraces individuality, and were passionate about building inclusive teams. We focus on creating a collaborative culture where you can be you, where your voice is heard, and where you can truly belong. We take great pride in being rated Gold Investors in People and are constantly striving to provide the highest standard of learning and development opportunities and professional pathways for our people. Building a home for success, for both our employees and residents, requires exceptional people with a passion for creating room for everyone, doing what`s right, keeping US safe, and raising the bar. Join us as we build better experiences for residents that live with us.
As part of our commitment to safeguarding our residents, all new employees in this position will be required to undertake a basic criminal record check prior to commencing employment. The cost of this check will be incurred by Unite Group. Any offer of employment will be subject to a satisfactory criminal record check result.
If this position sounds exciting to you, we would love to receive your application!
