PEI Group are looking for a Senior Reporter to join our welcoming, diverse, and growing team. The successful candidate will provide coverage of institutional private real estate transactions for PERE Deals, reporting directly to the Editor, PERE (deals desk).

You might be a good match if you want to:

• Break exclusive news on the most significant transactions in institutional private real estate.
  
  
• Become a recognized editorial authority on institutional capital deployment in private real estate.
  
  
• Be a key voice and visible editorial contact for PERE (deals desk)
  
  
• Enhance and maintain PERE’s relationships across the private real estate market in your region.
  
  
• Maintain PERE’s high editorial standard and be an important member of its team of editorial professionals.

  Your main responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

  Reporting and analysis

• Produce a regular cadence of private real estate transaction news stories each week.
• Break exclusive transaction news on the sector’s most significant deals.
• Maintain strong reporting on on-diary transaction news.
• Determine, pitch, research and write commentary and longer-form analysis on private real estate investment trends.
• Where required, edit the news reporting of colleagues within the team.

  Sources and networks

• Develop a network of private real estate investment executives and advisers.
• Conduct regular interviews with relevant private real estate investment executives and advisers.
• Work closely with research departments at organizations providing real estate investment research, to analyze transaction trends from external data.

  Data and proprietary insight

• Visualise PEI Group data for news and features.
• Contribute actively to the PERE (deals) transaction data collection and structured information creation process.
• Work closely with the PERE Research & Analytics team to analyze private real estate transaction trends from proprietary data.
• Establish and communicate major trends in private real estate investment to the wider Real Estate Group on the weekly editorial call.

  Brand, audience and events

• Optimize content based on metrics to ensure it is relevant to our audience and is produced to deliver performance.
• Translate the well-established mission of the brand to the region of coverage.
• Contribute to ensuring the PERE Deals website has fresh content at all times.
• Where appropriate, collaborate with PERE Deals and other Real Estate Group colleagues on editorial assignments.
• Participate in industry events, including speaking on panels, both on-stage and digitally.
• Where appropriate, provide commentary on private real estate investment, both written and digital.
• Adhere to PERE and PEI editorial codes of conduct and best practices at all times.

For more information about PERE, please feel free to check https://www.pei.group/brands/pere/

Requirements

Essential experience

• 3 to 5 or years’ experience in business or financial reporting.
• Prior experience covering private real estate or related financial fields is desirable.

  Essential knowledge and skills

• Demonstrable aptitude for exclusive news reporting and proprietary analysis, in digital and print.
• Written and spoken fluency in English.
• Excellent observation and judgment skills to extract and develop compelling stories.
• Familiarity with financial markets and investing, especially private real estate.
• A keen networker, with the ability to establish and cultivate relationships with industry contacts through in-person and virtual meetings, sector events and social media channels such as LinkedIn.
• Ability to meet fast and frequent deadlines.
• Proficiency in Claude, Microsoft Office Suite, online search tools, databases and WordPress, plus specialized tools to monitor website performance, SEO optimization and make data visuals (Infogram).
  

  Personal characteristics

• Personable and pro-active, with excellent people skills.
• Able to work independently; self-motivated and willing to take responsibility.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Resilient under pressure – able to remain focused in the face of multiple competing priorities and meet key deadlines.
• Resourceful – able to make the most of one’s network and resources to acquire often hard-to-find information.
• Comfortable operating in a grown-up working environment where regular feedback is provided and the eyes of several (senior) interested parties will always be focused.
• Innovative in storytelling approaches, including print, online, podcasts, videos and interactive presentations.
• Flexible and able to adapt to change; comfortable multi-tasking.

  Motivation

• Highly goal-focused and motivated by achieving high personal standards in all aspects of work – ambitious to meet own personal and organisational goals.
• Desire to be part of a dynamic business with high growth expectations and global reach.
• Keen to establish self as an authoritative voice on their beat and subject matter.
• Excited about engaging with a sophisticated audience.
• Enthusiasm for learning and continuing to expand one’s knowledge of their beat.
• Keen to stretch self and develop career at PEI.