Commercial Real Estate Analyst
Forward Air · Dallas
The Commercial Real Estate Analyst supports the administration, reporting, and coordination of the company's corporate real estate portfolio, including office, industrial, and logistics locations. They maintain real estate data, support lease administration activities, coordinate portfolio projects, and provide market research and reporting to support decision-making. They work closely with internal stakeholders, brokers, vendors, and service providers to ensure efficient portfolio operations. The ideal candidate brings previous experience supporting corporate real estate, expert proficiency in Microsoft Excel and working knowledge of commercial real estate platforms such as CoStar.
Responsibilities
- Support the administration of the company's office, industrial, and logistics real estate portfolio.
- Assist with lease administration, including renewals, amendments, critical date tracking, and lease documentation.
- Maintain accurate property, lease, occupancy, and transaction data within CoStar and internal systems.
- Develop and maintain portfolio reports, dashboards, and analysis to support business decisions.
- Conduct market research related to rental rates, vacancy trends, and comparable properties.
- Generate reports and insights from CoStar and other real estate platforms.
- Coordinate maintenance projects, repairs, capital improvements, and vendor activities.
- Support office relocations, expansions, consolidations, renovations, and space planning initiatives.
- Coordinate brokers, contractors, architects, facilities teams, and other service providers.
- Track certificates of insurance, vendor compliance requirements, and key contractual obligations.
- Assist with vendor procurement, contract administration, and project documentation.
- Ensure compliance with company policies, lease obligations, and applicable regulations.
- All other duties as assigned to meet evolving business needs.
Qualifications
- Education: Bachelor's degree in Real Estate, Business Administration, Finance, Economics, or a related field from an accredited college or university required.
- Experience: Two (2)+ years of experience supporting corporate real estate, lease administration, property administration, facilities, or related functions.
- Experience supporting commercial real estate portfolios, preferably within office, industrial, or logistics environments.
- Working knowledge of commercial leases and lease administration practices.
- Expert proficiency with Microsoft Excel (lookups, macros, visualizations, etc.) and Microsoft PowerPoint (comfortable building executive/board-level content).
- Working proficiency with CoStar or similar commercial real estate platforms.
- Strong analytical, organizational, and project coordination skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to collaborate across internal and external stakeholder groups.
- Demonstrated discretion and confidentiality in handling and protecting sensitive information.
- Technical: Proficient with common office technologies, including Windows PCs, Microsoft O365 (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.) and web conferencing (Teams, Zoom, Webex, etc.)
- Environment: Comfort commuting to/from and working in a 100% on-site setting (listed in this posting), with travel for related meetings/events.
Forward Air is an Equal Opportunity Employer
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