The insight programme was one a week experience allowing the students to get insight in the field that they have applied for During the week we given departmental overviews in planning investing surveying building consultancy and Savills Earth my res
Great insight into development viability Most of the days where spent report writing reading design reports from client039s architects and breaking down the location and description of the site and projects I was able to provide quick research if
it involved a lot of site inspections of different commerical sites and reviewing alongside clients and seeing it meets their requirements of their desired units As well as that it includes researching for clients properties across different tools during
During this role I followed a graduate surveyor for a week accompanying him to fill out spreadsheets relevant meetings and research on relevant properties I networked with many people and learnt so much about the career path
The insight programme was a means for students to create networks within savills and gather a feel of savills as a company it showed me the sort of tasks i would be conducting and the sort of environment i would be working in if i choose to join savills
departmental overviews short presentations giving a overall summary of what the department does and the teams involved asked to complete a list of comparative evidence039s attended housing inspections gathered data to create diagrams for valuati
Shadowing graduates through drop in meetings with team members Learning and being introduced to industry specific terminology specifically within sustainability Creating powerpoints and presentations using real life data through internal software such
On a day to day basis I was doing reports and meetings The types of reports that i was doing on a day to day basis includes finding potential development sites for clients The meetings include APC meetings and dealing with clients
Each day was quite varied and different across the week I attended a range of department overviews as well as team meetings I was given tasks to work through during the week such as researching for case studies and presentations workplace posts and qui
The typical day consisted of carrying out tasks delegated to me by my mentor who worked in the team It ranged from creating socioeconomic baselines to using mapping software to make market assessments There were also many opportunities to hear from the
I worked with a mentor who took me along to various residential inspections I was then explained the task of how to value a residential building and worked alongside my mentor to achieve this At the end of the week I sat down with my mentor and directo
As a member of the Savills Residential Property Management team I will be worked alongside contractors and onsite teams to maintain the smooth running of estates This ranged from the upkeep of the gardens and communal areas to 100 occupancy residentia
Assisted my line manager with some very large insurance claims for damage that occurred on estates that we manage from Storm Arwen Managed all of the properties on the estates that we manage in North Northumberland and the Scottish Borders Renewed and g
Valuation and agency work
Attending property inspections for business rates purposes compiling appeals to the Valuation Office and calculating annual rates liabilites and savings
On a daytoday basis I would attend meetings with my team draft planning applications or planning statements research new planning policy updateschanges and contact clients or councils
Supporting in the management of farms and estates across the south of England Such as assisting the creation of budgets environmental schemes and restructuring the business operation
My role working in the Retail Lease Advisory team at Savills was to assist my line manager with all active job instructions On a daytoday basis this included finding and analysing comparable valuation evidence which often involved phoning other agents
The job is a mixture of onsite and desk work Depending on the team you are in depends on the work involved Usually it involves a site inspection with the following days working on the report
I assisted multiple surveyors across the RISE team This included chasing arrears dealing with BM RFM or tenant issues enquiries It also entailed raising new WF039s to upload on the system whether that was a new lease WF a rent review or just a ge