2027 Summer Real Estate Valuation Intern
About The Position
This internship offers the opportunity to work with a team assisting a diverse range of clients, including businesses, individuals, estates, trusts, and family offices with their real estate valuation and analytics needs. These needs encompass financial reporting, tax planning and compliance, shareholder planning, estate and wealth transfer strategies, and other advisory matters. Interns will collaborate with the real estate valuation team and other consulting teams at Plante Moran, such as transaction advisory services and risk advisory & accounting services. The role provides flexibility to develop real estate solutions for complex client challenges beyond simple spreadsheets.
Requirements
- Detail-oriented leader with problem-solving, communication and analytical skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines in a dynamic, client-service environment
- Ability to work effectively in a team setting as well as autonomously
- Strong organizational skills and a commitment to producing high-quality work
- Interest in real estate, market analysis, and consulting
- Ability to think critically and apply data-driven insights to solve complex client challenges
- Excellent skill sets in the use of MS Word, PowerPoint and Excel
- Pursuing a bachelor’s degree or master’s degree in real estate, finance or economics, or related field
- Academic success (a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0)
- Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship, with the exception of qualified candidates who are bilingual in either Japanese and English or Chinese and English.
Responsibilities
- Preparing real estate appraisals on a variety of property types, including but not limited to residential, multifamily, industrial, retail, hotel, skilled nursing facilities, and land, among others
- Assisting with appraisals of large complex transactions
- Researching market and property data from a variety of databases
- Problem-solving to assist in client consultation and valuation
- Reviewing valuations for audit and tax clients
- Interviewing clients, including face-to-face meetings, and attending site inspections to gather data and information pertinent to the assignment
- Researching industry value drivers, including market, competitor and property information
- Financial modeling, including discounted cash flows
- Developing all facets of the appraisals, including the cost, sales comparison and income capitalization approaches to value
- Assisting in developing valuation reports from start to finish and communicating conclusions to clients
- Delivering results to clients across a diverse range of industries and ownership structures, including but not limited to: Private Equity and Investment Funds, Real Estate Owners, Developers, and Investors, Family Offices, Estates, and High-Net-Worth Individuals, Financial Institutions and Lenders, Manufacturing and Distribution, Hospitality and Leisure, Healthcare and Senior Living, Retail and Consumer Products, Professional and Business Services, Closely Held and Family-Owned Businesses
Benefits
- health insurance
- dental insurance
- vision insurance
- disability insurance
- life insurance
- Flexible Time Off
- various pre-determined holidays
- 401(k) plan
- flexible benefits plans
- business-related travel expense reimbursement
- lodging reimbursement for business-related use
- meal reimbursement for business-related use
- pension plan (for eligible administrative and paraprofessional staff)
- discretionary bonus plan (for eligible staff)
- option to elect health insurance (for some contingent staff)
- limited paid sick time (for some contingent staff)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Intern
