Acquisition Analyst Internship Program

Company Description

The Bascom Group, a private real estate investment firm was founded in 1996 to acquire and re-position value-add apartment properties. Since the firms’ inception, Bascom has completed over $14.1 billion in multifamily transactions (317 properties / 83,000+ apt. units) and currently holds roughly 20,000 units in its portfolio spanning fourteen states including California, New York, Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, Illinois, and Texas along with other select markets across the U.S.  The firm was ranked as the nation’s top apartment renovator by Multifamily Executive Magazine in 2014. 

Job Description

The Bascom Group’s Acquisition Analyst Internship provides hands-on, real life work experience for senior undergraduates, recent graduates, and graduate students. It is a highly selective and rigorous full time, 40+ hours per week, program that offers the individual both breadth and depth of real estate acquisition, capital markets, and operation experience.

Real estate analysts have the opportunity to experience both the acquisition and operation facets of the company. Acquisition duties include but are not limited to: performing financial analysis and conducting due diligence, field work, market analysis, preparation of investment offering memorandums, coordination of transaction documents, debt and equity restructuring proposals on value-add and distressed real estate opportunities as well as properties in foreclosure, bankruptcy, and receivership. Operation and asset management tasks include: performing asset quality inspections, leasing and marketing reviews, cost management analysis, and other revenue enhancement studies. Depending on the individual’s interests, he/she is provided with opportunities to supplement core responsibilities with concentrated, real estate investment projects. From there, they are taught basic and necessary day to day skills to succeed by industry standards.

Job Qualifications

• Bachelors or Masters degree either in progress or recently completed in: Real Estate, Finance, Accounting, or other Business majors with relevant or related course work
• Strong analytical, writing, communication, and interpersonal skills
• Detail oriented
• Track record of personal, educational, and professional success
• Computer proficiencies to include financial Microsoft Excel modeling, PowerPoint, and Word