Homelight is hiring a
Valuation Analyst

Summary

The job description is for a Valuation Analyst at HomeLight, a real estate technology platform. The role involves assessing properties for the Buy Before You Sell program, making recommendations to mitigate risk, and improving the valuation process. The position requires experience in a startup environment, proficiency with Excel and Google Apps, data analysis skills, understanding of price discovery dynamics, and knowledge of residential real estate transactions.

Requirements

• Experience in a startup environment
• Proficiency with Excel and Google Apps, and comfort learning new tools and systems
• Experience in data analysis
• Sound understanding of price discovery / demand-supply dynamics for illiquid assets and its impact on pricing accuracy
• Comfort with ambiguity and ability to change course or adopt new processes as needed
• Confidence in your opinions, but willingness to change them as you receive new information
• Ability to clearly articulate your thought processes and communicate your opinions and recommendations in a way that can be understood by someone who is less analytical than you
• Sharp attention to detail
• Excellent organizational skills
• A positive attitude in stressful situations
• Ability to effectively multitask and reprioritize a daily task list as offer deadlines and time-sensitive new deals are assigned
• Knowledge of how residential real estate gets transacted and how the home shopping / home buying process unfolds

Responsibilities

• Run property analyses using both objective data and qualitative feedback provided by our clients and partner agents
• Communicate ‘red flags’ on potential deals, and make recommendations for HomeLight’s best path forward
• Identify ways to improve our valuation process to increase both efficiency and accuracy as we scale

Preferred Qualifications

Prior experience with valuing or buying US residential real estate is a PLUS