Bilingual Associate Research Consultant- French/English (December 2025 Grads)

CoStar Group•Richmond, VA

6d•Onsite

About The Position

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 world’s 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 38 years, giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable offerings to our customers. We’ve 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. ROLE DESCRIPTION: An Associate Research Consultant is responsible for managing a portfolio of commercial real estate contacts and ensuring that all properties, listings, and transactions in CoStar’s database are current, accurate, and complete. This involves building relationships through daily outreach including interviews with brokers, property owners, developers, and other real estate professionals to gather real-time market information. The Associate Research Consultant captures information and enhances existing data on active listings and lease and sale transactions, typically verifying key details with multiple sources. Additionally, Associate Research Consultants research and compile profiles of commercial property owners and track construction projects from proposal through completion to update the database with new developments. Throughout these duties, they help clients fully leverage CoStar’s marketing platforms and provide world-class customer service to ensure clients can make informed decisions with comprehensive, high-quality market data. By capturing this market-critical information and putting our clients at the center of all we do it enables our customers to make informed high-impact business decisions. This position is in office Monday through Friday. OVERVIEW CoStar delivers real-time, verified commercial real estate data that helps clients confidently spot great opportunities and make smart choices ahead of competitors. By combining the power of CoStar’s independent research organization – the industry’s largest – with global data delivery, software, and application solutions, clients can act on opportunities with confidence. The Marketing Research team is the heart of CoStar, capturing market-critical information that enables our commercial real estate clients to make informed, high impact business decisions daily. CoStar Group’s research contributes to the most important segment of our economy, helping businesses open offices, retail stores, warehouses, and manufacturing facilities. CoStar Group is seeking a Marketing Research Advisor to join our growing research organization. As a Marketing Research Advisor, you will build relationships with key decision makers representing various commercial real estate spaces available for sale and/or for lease. Through these interviews, you will curate their listings, ensuring they are getting the most visibility on our platform. In addition, you will capture market-critical information that enables our clients to make informed high impact business decisions.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited, not-for-profit University or College, with a minimum 3.0 cumulative GPA and major in real estate, business, management, business analytics, data analytics or comparable programs.
Track record of commitment to prior employers.
Flexibility to work shifts aligned with EST, CST, MST, or PST time zones.
Professional or internship experience in customer service, real estate, or comparable industry.
Permanent US work authorization.
Fluency in French and English, both written and verbal, is required.
Bachelors’ degree
Flexibility to work shifts aligned with EST, CST, MST, or PST time zones
Eight or more months of experience in a customer service environment
Permanent US work authorization

Nice To Haves

Natural curiosity, persistence, and ability to conduct thorough investigative research
Proven success performing to metrics or key performance indicators (KPI)
Experience communicating with internal business partners and external clients by phone
Be goal-oriented and manage multiple responsibilities, adjust to changing priorities, and excel in a fast-paced environment
Ability to develop and grow client relationships by conducting effective interviews with commercial real estate professionals, resulting in database updates
Customer-focused approach to tasks, including a drive towards partnering with clients
Ability to work within a team environment as well as an individual contributor
Demonstrated knowledge of and/or experience within the commercial real estate industry
Experience and demonstrated proficiency with Excel that includes the ability to manipulate data, filter, and develop basic formulas
Capability to accurately capture and enter data
Ability to be flexible and adapt to changing situations at a high growth company
Natural curiosity, persistence, and ability to conduct thorough investigative research
Proven success performing to metrics or key performance indicators (KPI)
Experience communicating with internal business partners and external clients by phone
Be goal-oriented and manage multiple responsibilities, adjust to changing priorities, and excel in a fast-paced environment
Ability to develop and grow client relationships by conducting effective interviews with commercial real estate professionals, resulting in database updates
Customer-focused approach to tasks, including a drive towards partnering with clients
Ability to work within a team environment as well as an individual contributor
Demonstrated knowledge of and/or experience within the commercial real estate industry
Experience and demonstrated proficiency with Excel that includes the ability to manipulate data, filter, and develop basic formulas
Capability to accurately capture and enter data
Ability to be flexible and adapt to changing situations at a high growth company

Responsibilities

Contribute to the growth of an accurate and complete database of commercial real estate inventory
Conduct 50+ daily inbound and outbound phone calls with brokers, developers, investors, and other real estate professionals to obtain real-time property and transaction data
Investigate new space listings, recent sale and lease transactions, building ownership and construction in a market
Build and maintain mutually beneficial relationships with clients
Partner with our clients to help them position and market their properties on the CoStar platform for the market/audience
Dissect trends and collaborate with regional-based teams to qualify data that will help tell the story of an entire market

Benefits

Comprehensive healthcare coverage: Medical / Vision / Dental / Prescription Drug
Life, legal, and supplementary insurance
Virtual and in person mental health counseling services for individuals and family
Commuter and parking benefits
401(K) retirement plans with matching contributions
Employee stock purchase plan
Paid time off
Tuition reimbursement
On-site fitness center and/or reimbursed fitness center membership costs (location dependent), with yoga studio, Pelotons, personal training, group exercise classes
Access to CoStar Group’s Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Employee Resource Groups
Complimentary gourmet coffee, tea, hot chocolate, fresh fruit, and other healthy snacks