What are the responsibilities and job description for the Leasing Specialist - Property Syndication position at Amherst Holdings?
The Amherst Group of companies comprise of leading real estate investment and advisory firms with a mission to transform the way real estate is owned, financed and managed. Amherst leverages its proprietary data, analytics, technology, and decades of experience to seek solutions for a fragmented, slow-to-evolve real estate ecosystem and to materially improve the experience for residents, buyers, sellers, communities, and investors. Today Amherst has over 1000 employees and $14.1 billion in assets under management.
Over the past decade, Amherst has scaled its platform to become one of the largest operators of single-family assets and has acquired, renovated, and leased more than 46,000 homes across 32 markets in the U.S. The firm delivers customized, stabilized cash-flowing portfolios of assets to its investors, wrapped in all the ongoing services required to manage, own, and finance the asset including property management, portfolio management, and a full capital markets team. In addition to its single-family rental platform, Amherst’s debt business pursues two distinct credit strategies in mortgage-backed securities and commercial real estate lending. Over its 25-year history, Amherst has developed a deep bench of research and technology talent, and leverages data and analytics at every stage in the asset lifecycle to improve operations and preserve long-term value for our investors and the more than 188,000 residents the firm has served.
The Property Syndication Specialist is responsible for working with the team to achieve the goal of ensuring our syndications goal is 95% and higher for our centralized marketed properties. The Property Syndication Specialist will be responsible for working directly with the different MSR teams to identify and resolve obstacles in a proactive & reactive manner in order to obtain a 95% syndication goal.
- Ensure all properties are updated accordingly for syndication purposes including certification and after the home has been leased and move-in processes.
- Prepare homes that are ready to be marketed and syndicated ensuring that all marketing requirements are met including and not limited to marketing descriptions, amenities, photos, etc.
- Input all listing information on all homes that ready for marketing on all syndication sites, including the MSR Website, Salesforce, Rently , MLS, Zillow, etc. and update as needed
- Collaborate and coordinate with leasing, construction and other teams to ensure that all necessary requirements to complete the property marketing process are
- Review and maintain accurate content, photography and syndication on all properties in marketing
- Troubleshoot and assist any syndication and property marketing issues ensuring that the property listings are within MSR standards
- Manage the property marketing and syndication support queue and coordinate with the appropriate teams to assist, troubleshoot and resolve any and all property marketing related issues
- Providing support for all leasing and other MSR teams on Property Management systems (Yardi, Property manager, Salesforce, MLS) relating to listings and syndications.
- Participate in training sessions to improve skills with administrative tasks in the real estate industry, particularly involving property marketing and syndication
Just a few other things you should know
- Please note, this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
- This job operates in a professional office environment.
- This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, and fax machines.
What you’ll need to have
- HS Diploma or equivalent
- 1-2 years of prior effective interpersonal and communication skills.
- 1-2 years prior leasing administrative experience preferred. Proficient with Microsoft Office, including Outlook, Excel and Word.
- Highly motivated “self-starter” able to learn and grow fast under aggressive project schedules
- Identifying inadequacies and requesting corrective action.
- Highly organized and able to multi-task and work effectively with limited supervision.
- Establish processes to ensure that quality assurance provisions are planned, developed and implemented for prompt and positive action to assure compliance with quality standards.
- Knowledge of property management and syndication systems preferred, Yardi Voyager Core or Salesforce, MLS.
Our full-time employee benefits include:
- A competitive and comprehensive benefits package.
