Newport Beach, CA
Salary Estimate: Confidential
Employment Type: Full Time
Work Place: Office
Experience Required: 5+ to 7 years
Education Required: 4 Year College
Job Description
Role & Responsibilities
Buchanan Street Partners, a national real estate investment manager based in Newport Beach, CA, seeks an investment professional to assist with making institutional-quality property investments. The position will report to a partner/portfolio manager and functions will include:
• Sourcing and underwriting real estate investments in Buchanan’s Western U.S. target markets – primarily property acquisitions but possibly including debt, mezzanine loans and other structured finance investments:
o Cash flow modeling, including DCF valuations through Argus (no analyst will support this role; acquisitions officer will perform analytics)
o Analysis of market data and trends to develop underwriting assumptions
o Identification and analysis of comparable sales
o Preparation of investment summaries, proposals, committee memoranda
o Conduct and management of due diligence processes
o Execution of transaction closings
• Assistance with transaction financing, including preparation of financing memoranda, providing lender due diligence materials, analysis of competing bids, and closing coordination
• Remaining abreast of target market property fundamentals, including employment trends, net absorption, new construction, vacancy and rental trends and capital markets activity; periodic summaries of research in order to develop and support investment theses
• Maintaining strong broker and property owner relationships through active participation in target markets, including attendance at industry events
• Active coordination with portfolio managers and asset managers in team-oriented approach to business plan development, underwriting assumptions, due diligence and closing
Required Background & Skills
The successful applicant will have a minimum of 5 years or more of directly relevant experience with a real estate investment company (7+ years preferred). A 4-year degree is required (business/economics major preferred); any graduate work is a plus. The selected candidate will have the following skills:
• Prior investment experience in Buchanan’s target markets along with existing relationships
• Argus modeling and discounted cash flow analysis
• Extensive experience modeling real estate investments, including “waterfall” cash flows and carried interest structures in Excel
• Strong writing and presentation preparation skills
• Team orientation, “extra mile” work ethic, firm culture contributor/carrier
Buchanan Street Partners
• 1-100 employees
Buchanan Street Partners, founded in 1999, is a real estate investment management firm headquartered in Newport Beach, California. The firm, a SEC registered investment advisor since 2002, manages commingled investment funds, institutional separate accounts and high net worth investment vehicles.
Since its inception, Buchanan Street Partners has invested in over $8 billion of real estate debt and equity investments. The firm’s investment team has invested through multiple real estate cycles, providing them with the experience to identify risk-adjusted opportunities while prioritizing principal preservation. Buchanan believes this expertise, coupled with the firm’s extensive industry reach, provides quality investment opportunities for its diverse investor client base.
Buchanan Street Partners’ success was built upon the core values of knowledge, teamwork, trust, results and leadership which they have carried forward through industry influence benefiting it’s 501(C)(3) organization Buchanan Children’s Charities, established to measurably improve the quality of life and educational opportunities for children.
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