Location: London (Office Based)
Salary: Competitive + Performance Bonus
About Us
We are an entrepreneurial real estate investment, development and construction business focused on acquiring, funding and delivering some of the UK's most exciting living, mixed-use and hospitality projects.
Our activities span residential, build-to-rent, co-living, student accommodation, hospitality and commercial real estate, with projects typically ranging from £50 million to over £1 billion Gross Development Value (GDV).
We are a fast-moving business that combines entrepreneurial thinking with institutional-quality analysis and execution. We embrace technology, AI and innovation to improve decision making and create competitive advantage.
This is not a corporate environment with rigid hierarchies and narrow job descriptions. We believe in giving talented people genuine responsibility, exposure to significant transactions and the opportunity to accelerate their careers through real ownership and accountability.
Working directly with senior leadership, you will play an active role in shaping investment decisions, structuring acquisitions, securing funding and executing complex development transactions.
The Opportunity
We are seeking an ambitious and commercially minded Real Estate Investment & Acquisitions Associate to join our growing investment and capital team.
This is a high-impact role for someone who enjoys analysing complex transactions, identifying value, solving commercial problems and helping execute major real estate investments.
You will be involved throughout the entire investment lifecycle from sourcing and underwriting opportunities through to funding, acquisition, development strategy and asset management.
The successful candidate will be expected to think like an investor, not simply an analyst.
You should be capable of independently assessing investment opportunities, challenging assumptions, identifying risks and opportunities, and presenting clear commercial recommendations to senior leadership with minimal supervision.
Key Responsibilities
Investment Analysis & Underwriting
- Lead the financial underwriting of acquisitions, developments and investment opportunities.
- Build, maintain and continually improve sophisticated financial models.
- Prepare development appraisals, investment analyses and valuation models.
- Assess pricing, development viability, funding structures and investment returns.
- Undertake sensitivity analysis and scenario modelling.
- Evaluate commercial risks, opportunities and value creation strategies.
- Review consultant reports, planning information and technical due diligence from a commercial perspective.
Acquisitions & Transactions
- Support the sourcing, evaluation and execution of acquisition opportunities.
- Coordinate legal, planning, technical, commercial and financial due diligence.
- Work alongside senior leadership throughout transaction negotiations.
- Assist with deal structuring, funding strategies and transaction execution.
- Help drive acquisitions through to completion while proactively identifying and resolving issues.
Capital Raising & Investment Reporting
- Prepare lender submissions and debt funding proposals.
- Produce institutional-quality investment memorandums and Investment Committee papers.
- Prepare investor presentations and project summaries.
- Build and manage transaction data rooms.
- Coordinate due diligence requests from lenders, investors and professional advisers.
- Present financial and commercial information clearly and professionally to internal and external stakeholders.
Market Research & Strategy
- Monitor investment markets, macroeconomic trends and sector performance.
- Analyse comparable transactions, rental markets, pricing and investment yields.
- Identify emerging opportunities, market risks and sector trends.
- Support wider investment strategy and portfolio management initiatives.
Innovation & Technology
- Leverage AI and modern analytical tools to improve underwriting, research and reporting.
- Identify opportunities to automate processes and improve investment decision making.
- Continuously improve the quality, speed and accuracy of financial analysis through technology.
What We're Looking For
We are looking for someone who combines exceptional analytical capability with commercial judgement and an entrepreneurial mindset.
The successful candidate will be:
- Highly analytical with exceptional numerical ability.
- Commercially minded and naturally curious.
- Able to understand the commercial story behind the numbers.
- Comfortable working independently with minimal supervision.
- Entrepreneurial, proactive and solutions focused.
- Highly organised with exceptional attention to detail.
- Able to manage multiple live transactions simultaneously.
- Confident communicating with lenders, investors, consultants and senior stakeholders.
- Passionate about real estate investment and development.
- Enthusiastic about using AI and emerging technologies to improve productivity and decision making.
Most importantly, you will demonstrate ownership, accountability and a genuine desire to contribute beyond your job description.
The ideal candidate has:
The successful candidate should possess strong experience in many of the following areas:
- 3-5 years of experience within UK real estate investment, development, private equity, capital markets or real estate finance.
- Comes from a Real Estate Private Equity, Property Investment, Property Development, Development Finance, Capital Markets, Investment Banking (Real Estate), Corporate Finance, Institutional Investors, Leading Property Consultancies background.
- Advanced Excel financial modelling
- Development appraisals
- Residual land valuation
- Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) modelling
- Investment valuation
- Cashflow forecasting
- Sensitivity analysis
- Gross Development Value (GDV)
- Gross Internal Area (GIA) and Net Internal Area (NIA)
- Development viability
- Build cost analysis
- Debt and equity funding structures
- Senior, mezzanine and whole-loan finance
- Joint venture structures
- Investment reporting and presentation preparation
Experience using Power BI, ARGUS Enterprise or other analytical platforms would be advantageous but is not essential.
You should have demonstrable experience underwriting and evaluating large-scale UK real estate transactions and developments.
Ideally, you will have worked on projects with Gross Development Values ranging from £50 million to £1 billion+, either within an investment, development, advisory, lending or institutional environment.
Working Arrangements
This is a primarily office-based role in London.
Given the scale of our projects and the international nature of our funding and investment relationships, some flexibility around working hours will occasionally be required.
Why Join Us?
This is an opportunity to work on some of the UK's most significant real estate transactions alongside experienced investors, developers and industry professionals.
You will gain exposure to acquisitions, capital raising, institutional funding, development strategy and asset management at a level that would typically take many years to experience within a larger organisation.
For the right individual, this role offers the opportunity to become a key member of a rapidly growing investment platform, helping shape major investment decisions while accelerating your own career.
Pay: From £60,000.00 per year
Application question(s):
- Do you have at least 3 years' experience building and maintaining real estate investment or development financial models, including cash flow forecasting, IRR, equity multiple, and levered/unlevered return analysis?
- How many years of hands-on real estate financial experience do you have producing outputs such as discounted cash flow (DCF) valuations, development appraisals/residual land value analysis, and debt sizing against metrics like LTV, LTC, DSCR, and ICR?
- Which real estate sectors have you underwritten as a Financial Analyst (e.g. residential/BTR, commercial office, retail, industrial/logistics, hospitality, student accommodation, mixed-use development), and what asset types or deal structures are you strongest in?
Work Location: In person
