Consultant in Real Estate Advisory - Newport Beach, CA

The Concord Group•Newport Beach, CA

8d•$85,000 - $105,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Concord Group (TCG) is hiring a Consultant to advise developers, investors, public agencies, and other decision-makers on real estate markets, development opportunities, and investment decisions. The role is based in Newport Beach, California, with a hybrid work arrangement. Consultants work in small teams alongside senior professionals and gain early exposure to clients and real estate decision-makers. Assignments span markets nationally and include multifamily housing, mixed-use development, for-sale residential, retail, hospitality, and master-planned communities. The Consultant will structure and conduct market, economic, demographic, and competitive analyses around client decisions; evaluate demand, rents, pricing, absorption, product positioning, and competitive supply; and develop defensible recommendations. The role involves synthesizing data, interviews, and site observations into client-ready presentations, memoranda, exhibits, and market studies. Consultants use Excel, data platforms, mapping tools, and AI to support analysis, while checking sources and results. Site visits and interviews with market participants are part of the work. Consultants may direct portions of engagements, coordinate team contributions, and participate in client discussions and presentations. Growth comes through increasing responsibility, including leading substantial portions of engagements, presenting findings, guiding team members, and building client relationships. TCG offers ongoing feedback and development through close work with senior professionals. TCG seeks intellectually curious, analytically strong professionals with approximately two to five years of experience who want to build a career in real estate consulting. Demonstrated consulting skills and professional achievement are valued more than a particular résumé path; direct real estate experience is valuable but not required. Relevant backgrounds include management or economic consulting, finance, capital markets, development, investment, brokerage research, planning, and data analytics. The base salary is $85,000–$105,000, with a bonus opportunity, health coverage, pension, and paid time off. Applicants should submit a résumé and a short note explaining their interest in consulting and TCG, and highlight an assignment where they developed a recommendation and describe their contribution.

Requirements

Approximately two to five years of experience.
Exceptional analytical and problem-solving ability, with strong quantitative skills and comfort working with data.
Ability to synthesize substantial information and move from analysis to interpretation and recommendation.
Clear, concise writing and confident verbal communication; interest in storytelling and client service.
Intellectual curiosity, sound judgment, and willingness to test assumptions and revise a view when evidence changes.
Initiative, resourcefulness, organization, and ownership of work quality and timeliness.
Interest in real estate, development, cities, economics, consumer behavior, or related fields.
Submit a résumé and a short note explaining interest in consulting and TCG, and describe an assignment involving a recommendation and the applicant’s contribution.

Nice To Haves

Direct real estate experience is valuable but not required.
Relevant backgrounds include management or economic consulting, finance, capital markets, development, investment, brokerage research, planning, and data analytics.
Interests in business, design, culture, politics, or other subjects may bring useful perspective to the work.

Responsibilities

Structure market, economic, demographic, and competitive analyses around the client’s decision.
Evaluate demand, rents, pricing, absorption, product positioning, and competitive supply, and develop defensible recommendations.
Synthesize data, market interviews, and site observations into a clear story for clients.
Prepare client-ready presentations, memoranda, exhibits, and market studies.
Use Excel, data platforms, mapping tools, and AI to make analysis faster, deeper, and more customized; check sources and results.
Conduct site visits and interviews with developers, brokers, property managers, and other market participants.
Direct portions of engagements, coordinate team contributions, and participate actively in client discussions and presentations.
As responsibility grows, lead substantial portions of engagements, present findings to clients, guide other team members, and build client relationships.