Valuations Director (Living - Affordable Housing) in London

The Director role will provide valuation and advisory advice to clients, with a focus on executing business development and client care. The role will deliver higher complexity valuations and reporting and supervise, review and quality check the valuation work and processes completed by other members of the Valuation team.

As property value experts, we deliver valuations with unmatched accuracy and speed. We understand the challenges of navigating risk and value in volatile markets and provide precise and swift valuations leveraging the scale of our data, advanced technology, sector expertise and geographic coverage. We provide clients with a professional, fully compliant, and efficient valuation process so they can make well informed decisions and act with confidence. Within our teams, we work collaboratively and embrace connected ways of working. We are close and connected to our clients and the markets they operate in, forging long term relationships.

This role will work primarily within the Affordable Housing Valuations team, part of CBRE's market leading Living Valuations service line. The team provides specialist valuation and advisory advice across the affordable housing sector to registered providers, local authorities, lenders, investors and developers. Led by a Senior Director, the team currently comprises Associate Directors, Senior Surveyors, a Surveyor and a Graduate, and is expanding to meet strong and growing client demand. We are an ambitious, fast growing team with an established client base and a clear strategy to capture a significant share of the affordable housing valuation market. This is an opportunity to join at a pivotal stage of the team's growth - helping to lead and develop the team, deepen existing client relationships and win new business as we scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide valuation and advisory advice across the affordable housing sector for secured lending, financial reporting, regulatory, stock rationalisation, transactional and investment purposes.
• Lead business development activity, leveraging an existing client base and network to maintain client relationships and win new mandates across registered providers, lenders, investors and developers.
• Help drive the team's growth strategy and capture market share in affordable housing valuation as the team continues to scale.
• Lead fee pitching, fee quotes, RFPs and tender activity, taking ownership of pricing and proposals.
• Close liaison with clients ensuring high quality advice is consistently delivered.
• Play an active role in helping to lead, manage and grow the team, including day to day team and line management duties such as performance review, coaching and development.
• Take ownership of project management across instructions - scoping, resourcing, timelines and delivery - ensuring work is run efficiently and completed to deadline.
• QRM compliance oversight, sign off conflict checks and manage ClientIQ opportunity records up to execution.
• Conduct physical property inspections and supervise and review output of inspections conducted by junior members of the team.
• Valuation modelling (including DCF modelling for EUV SH and other affordable housing bases), calculation and sensitivity analysis of higher complexity work.
• Complete 'activate' set up in TOPS2.
• Hold team accountable for maintaining ClientIQ data to ensure WIP dashboard is up to date.
• Enhancement to fulfil and deliver Client Reporting Requirements - sign off on client portals and data controllership requirements.
• Review valuation work drafted by other members of the Valuation team to ensure quality and consistency and sign off for job completion.
• Work with the Service Delivery team to ensure that execution is prioritised and completed.
• Help with more complex revenue recognition tasks.
• Integrate and collaborate with the wider CBRE network and other business lines.
• Support with other value add tasks and internal initiatives for innovation and improvement.
• Work flexibly across services within the Division and support other Sectors and Divisions as and when required.

Person Specification / Requirements

• MRICS qualified or equivalent (RICS Registered Valuer), with relevant post qualified experience.
• Demonstrable experience valuing affordable housing and/or wider residential assets, with a strong understanding of registered provider structures and the sector.
• Bachelor's degree or higher in Real Estate, Surveying, or a related field.
• Proven experience of managing client accounts, ideally with an established client base or network within the affordable housing sector.
• Experience using valuation software and tools, with strong Excel and DCF modelling skills.
• Strong understanding of property market trends and factors influencing property values, and the ability to use that intel in business development discussions.
• Strong knowledge of regulations and standards in property valuation.
• Proven management experience.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, enabling the development of good relationships with both clients and colleagues.
• Strong analytical skills with high attention to detail.
• Ability to prioritise tasks, delegate where appropriate and meet deadlines.
• Proactive, commercially minded and self motivated, with the drive to identify and pursue new opportunities.
• Enjoys working under pressure in a fast paced, dynamic environment.
• Valid UK driving licence - if applicable.