CRE Investment Analyst (Office & Industrial)

RMR is seeking a highly analytical and technology-forward Commercial Real Estate Investment Analyst to join its Office & Industrial Real Estate team. This role supports senior leaders across portfolio management, asset management, acquisitions, dispositions, and investment strategy for a portfolio encompassing approximately 88 million square feet of office and industrial properties, including approximately 17.1 million square feet within Office Properties Income Trust (OPI) and approximately 71.3 million square feet within Industrial Logistics Properties Trust (ILPT) and affiliated industrial investments.

The Analyst will play a critical role in commercial real estate financial modeling, underwriting, investment analysis, market research, portfolio reporting, and transaction execution. In addition, this position carries a unique mandate to leverage advanced expertise in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Generative AI technologies to further enhance existing workflows and identify new opportunities for innovation across underwriting, research, reporting, and investment decision-making processes.

This is a high-impact opportunity for a motivated self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced, demanding environment and seeks broad exposure to the full real estate investment lifecycle. The ideal candidate combines exceptional analytical capabilities, advanced AI expertise, and strong business judgment with the ability to solve complex problems, manage competing priorities, and drive meaningful impact across portfolio management, asset management, and investment strategy while helping shape the future of technology-enabled real estate investing.

Portfolio Management & Investment Strategy

• Support portfolio and asset managers in maximizing value across a 75-million-square-foot office and industrial real estate portfolio.
• Perform portfolio-level investment analysis to support capital allocation, hold/sell decisions, performance optimization, and strategic planning.
• Develop and maintain sophisticated financial models analyzing portfolio performance, projected cash flows, investment returns, debt financing, and scenario analysis.
• Prepare executive-level reporting for quarterly earnings, board presentations, budgeting processes, and investor communications, including the quarterly Portfolio Management Review package, occupancy and known-vacate forecasts, valuation summaries, and annual budget decks.
• Reconcile occupancy, lease expiration, and valuation data across ARGUS, VTS, Yardi, and internal reporting systems so figures tie across reports and to accounting.
• Analyze portfolio performance metrics and market trends to identify opportunities for value creation and risk mitigation.

Asset Management & Financial Analysis

• Analyze rent rolls, lease economics, operating statements, and property-level performance data.
• Build and maintain ARGUS Enterprise and Microsoft Excel models to evaluate leasing strategies, redevelopment opportunities, capital investments, and development projects.
• Support asset-level business planning through market research, financial forecasting, and valuation analysis.
• Monitor office and industrial real estate fundamentals, tenant performance, leasing activity, occupancy trends, and competitive market dynamics.
• Partner with asset managers to evaluate and execute property-level value enhancement initiatives.

Acquisitions, Dispositions & Underwriting

• Maintain and analyze the acquisitions pipeline, ensuring data quality and identifying investment trends across target markets.
• Lead detailed financial underwriting of prospective acquisitions and dispositions, including discounted cash flow analysis, valuation modeling, sensitivity testing, capital structure analysis, and IRR/NPV calculations.
• Research commercial real estate market fundamentals, economic indicators, demographic trends, comparable sales, and leasing transactions.
• Prepare investment committee memoranda, acquisition recommendations, and executive presentations.
• Support comprehensive due diligence processes, including review of leases, operating budgets, appraisals, environmental reports, engineering assessments, and third-party analyses.
• Assist transaction teams through negotiation, execution, and closing activities while interacting directly with brokers, lenders, tenants, and counterparties.
• Support disposition marketing from listing through closing: prepare property data and ARGUS exports for brokers, review broker opinions of value and offering memoranda, organize data rooms, and track buyer diligence requests.
• Coordinate with Legal, property management, and lenders on purchase agreement deliverables, estoppels, loan assumptions, and closing items.

AI, Data Analytics & Innovation

• Serve as a subject matter expert in Generative AI and Large Language Model (LLM) technologies, including Claude, Gemini, OpenAI, and Meta AI platforms, applying best practices and advanced use cases to further enhance investment workflows and analytical capabilities.
• Develop AI-enabled workflows that improve efficiency across commercial real estate underwriting, market research, lease abstraction, reporting, presentation development, and investment analysis.
• Partner with business stakeholders and the Technology & Innovation team to identify and implement AI-driven process improvements.
• Build and maintain shared AI Projects, Skills, prompts, templates, and knowledge assets supporting recurring functions such as business plans, investment committee memoranda, portfolio reviews, market updates, lease and GSA amendment review, deal tracking, and quarterly report quality checks.
• Evaluate, validate, and quality-check AI-generated outputs while adhering to company policies, data privacy standards, and confidentiality requirements.
• Stay current on emerging developments in PropTech, Artificial Intelligence, workflow automation, and real estate analytics and recommend practical business applications.

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, real estate, or a related field.
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in commercial real estate or a related industry.
• Demonstrated expertise in Excel—ability to build complex models from scratch, audit formulas, and automate workflows using advanced functions, power queries, macros, and VBA.
• Ability to learn quickly and solve problems in a dynamic environment.
• Exceptional organizational and time management skills; thrives under pressure and meets deadlines without sacrificing accuracy.
• Working knowledge of ARGUS preferred.
• Self-motivated and proactive with a strong sense of ownership and accountability.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across departments and with external stakeholders.
• High level of discretion and professionalism, especially when handling sensitive or confidential information.

The RMR Group offers an extensive total rewards package to ensure that your benefits align with your needs. Employees who work at least 20 hours per week are eligible to participate in The RMR Group’s benefits plans, including:

• Health Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Life & Disability Insurance
• Health Savings Account (HSA) & Flexible Spending Plans (FSA)
• 401(k) Plan with Employer Match
• Holidays, Vacation & Sick Time
• Parental Leave
• Tuition Assistance
• Matching Gift Program
• Wide Array of Voluntary, Employee-Paid Benefits to choose from including Critical Illness & Accident Insurance, Identity Theft Protection & Pet Insurance

The estimated base compensation range for this position is $80,000 to $100,000 per year. RMR considers several components including an individual's skills, qualifications, experience, internal equity, and market data.

The RMR Group (Nasdaq: RMR) is a leading U.S. alternative asset management company, unique for its focus on commercial real estate (CRE) and related businesses. RMR’s vertical integration is strengthened by over 800 real estate professionals in more than 30 offices nationwide who manage over $37 billion in assets under management and leverage 40 years of institutional experience in buying, selling, financing and operating CRE. RMR benefits from a scalable platform, a deep and experienced management team, and a diversity of real estate strategies across its clients. RMR has been recognized by The Boston Globe as a “Top Place to Work”, by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as an “ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year” and ranked by the Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) as having one of the highest number of BOMA 360 designated properties in its portfolio. RMR is headquartered in Newton, MA and was founded in 1986.

RMR’s mission is to create long term value for our clients by managing their investments and assets “like we own it” – an approach that consistently and repeatedly generates opportunities for all our employees, investors and stakeholders. We are guided by six core values:

• Integrity at Our Core.
• Perform Passionately and Effectively.
• Inspired Thinking.
• Like We Own It.
• Power of We.
• Mutual Respect.

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The RMR Group is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. For our EEO Policy Statement, please click here. If you’d like more information on your EEO rights under the law, please click here.