Reporter Commercial Real Estate CoStar - London
Reporter Commercial Real Estate CoStar - London
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COSTAR GROUP REPORTER COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE COSTAR LONDON
OVERVIEW
CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information analytics and online marketplaces. Included in the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ 100 CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the worlds real estate empowering all people to discover properties insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives.
We have been living and breathing the world of real estate information and online marketplaces for over 35 years giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable offerings to our customers. Weve continually refined transformed and perfected our approach to our business creating a language that has become standard in our industry for our customers and even our competitors. We continue that effort today and are always working to improve and drive innovation. This is how we deliver for our customers our employees and investors. By equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available we provide an invaluable edge in real estate.
CoStar is the global leader in commercial real estate information analytics and news. Commercial Real Estate industry professionals around the globe use CoStar to access the most comprehensive data to make decisions with confidence. CoStar delivers immediate verified commercial real estate information on over 5.9 million properties across every market.
Learn more about CoStar.
JOB DESCRIPTION
CoStar News has a reputation as the leading source of commercial real estate news in the UK. The team breaks hundreds of news stories and exclusives each year and is read by tens of thousands of subscribers The readership includes many of the UKs leading real estate personalities and deal makers.
News is an essential part of CoStar probably the most successful commercial real estate information and marketing platform in the world. Hundreds of thousands of subscribers search CoStar every day to find properties for sale spaces for lease understand market trends owners funds and tenants.
As a commercial real estate reporter you will be responsible for breaking important news stories and reporting on market events. This will include office industrial and retail sectors but also importantly developing stories about the build to rent student and residential sectors. This will support CoStars expanding information and marketing products in these high growth sectors.
You will be expected to develop their network of industry professionals and provide the powerful insights and analysis that our readership needs. The reporter will be required to work closely with our UK research teams to create significant value about the properties transactions companies and people we track.
This role will report into the UK News Managing Editor one of the most experienced commercial real estate journalists in the UK.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Writing exceptional news stories that bring valuable insight and analysis
- Breaking important news stories and exclusives that drive readership
- Ensuring these stories get picked up by national and regional press
- Developing exciting news content for build to rent student and residential property types
- Building a network of highvalue contacts
- Attending industry events and conferences
- Working closely with the wider research group to support the development of our information and marketing products
- Working with marketing and sales teams to identify opportunities for brand building
QUALIFICATIONS
- Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
- Experienced journalist who ideally has worked on a business and commercial or residential property publication. The applicant should have a strong grasp of how to construct a news story how to source news and what information is needed in a commercial property news story for it to have value for readers.
- Experience of interviewing and maintaining contacts with freelancers PRs publishers and key industry sources.
- Exceptional interviewing and writing skills and the necessary drive and journalistic training to deliver top quality copy.
- Good commercial and residential property awareness.
- Experience working within a news team.
WHATS IN IT FOR YOU
Working at CoStar Group means youll enjoy a culture of collaboration and innovation that attracts the best and brightest across a broad range of disciplines. As well as having an outstanding working environment based in iconic buildings the Shard and Blue Fin or one of our key UKwide hubs. Other perks include full private medical cover dental cover Life Assurance and member rewards 28 days annual leave a competitive pension season ticket loans enhanced maternity and paternity pay and much more!
At CoStar we recognise the positive value of diversity and promote equality. We aim at all times to recruit the person who is most suited to the job and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds men and women people of all ages sexual orientations nationalities religions and beliefs. However we particularly encourage applications from women disabled and Black Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as these groups are underrepresented throughout the commercial real estate industry.
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Employment Type
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