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Richmond, Virginia, United States
Onsite
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Job Description
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Company Overview
CoStar Group is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces. Included in the S&P 500 Index, 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 40 years, giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable offerings for 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 CoStar’s property, listing, transaction, ownership, construction, and contact data is current, accurate, and complete. This role conducts daily outreach and investigative interviews with brokers, property owners, developers, investors, and other commercial real estate professionals to confirm market activity, capture missing information, and resolve data quality issues.
The Associate Research Consultant also supports client product adoption by helping clients understand CoStar and LoopNet functionality, reviewing listing performance, identifying training needs, and partnering with Sales or other internal teams when appropriate. In this role, the Associate Research Consultant uses approved technology and AI-enabled workflows to improve research efficiency while maintaining a high standard for source validation, data accuracy, and world-class customer service. By capturing this critical market 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.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Maintain accurate and complete property, listing, transaction, ownership, construction, and contact data across assigned markets and portfolios.
Proactively identify opportunities to improve data quality and market coverage within assigned markets.
Conduct high-volume (50+) daily inbound and outbound outreach with brokers, developers, investors, property owners, and other commercial real estate professionals to confirm listing availability, transaction activity, ownership, construction status, and other market-critical information.
Investigating new space listings, recent sale and lease transactions, building ownership and construction in a market
Leverage approved AI tools and Research AI agents to support research workflows that improve efficiency and data quality, while validating outputs against source materials and company standards.
Build and maintain mutually beneficial relationships with clients and commercial real estate professionals through professional, customer-focused communication.
Support client onboarding, product adoption, product searches/functionality questions, listing performance reviews, and training requests in partnership with Sales when appropriate
Dissect trends and collaborate with regional-based teams to qualify data that will help tell the story of an entire market
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE
Bachelor's Degree required from an accredited, not for profit University or College
A track record of commitment to prior employers
8+ months’ experience in a customer service environment
Microsoft Excel 365 experience is required
Flexibility to work shifts aligned with ET, CT, MT, and PT time zones
Evidence of strong academic performance in college
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Natural curiosity, persistence, and ability to conduct thorough investigative research
Experience utilizing and adopting AI tools, including Microsoft 365 Copilot or similar AI-enabled workflows
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
Strong attention to detail and ability to accurately document research findings, client interactions, and data updates in internal systems.
Ability to be flexible and adapt to changing situations at a high growth company
What’s in it for you?
When you join CoStar Group, you’ll experience a collaborative and innovative culture working alongside the best and brightest to empower our people and customers to succeed.
We offer you generous compensation and performance-based incentives. CoStar Group also invests in your professional and academic growth with internal training, tuition reimbursement, etc.
Our benefits package includes (but is not limited to):
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 Employee Resource Groups
Complimentary gourmet coffee, tea, hot chocolate, fresh fruit, and other healthy snacks
The final salary or hourly rate offered for this role with fall within the range set forth below based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, geographic location, skills, and competencies.
Base Compensation: $73,500 (Hourly)
We welcome all qualified candidates who are currently eligible to work full-time in the United States to apply. However, please note that CoStar Group cannot provide visa sponsorship for this position.
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CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing
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.
RESPONSIBILITIES
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
We welcome all qualified candidates who are currently eligible to work full-time in the United States to apply. However, please note that CoStar is not able to provide visa sponsorship for this position.
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