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  • Pathway Overview
  • Career Development
  • About You
  • Application Process

Pathway Overview

Pathway Overview

Our Building Surveying pathway focuses on the completion of the Assessment of Professional Competence (APC). As a Graduate, you will gain experience in a wide range of specialisms to gain an understanding of the industry and Gerald Eve’s key clients.

Our aim is to nurture creative and dynamic property consultants. From your very first day, you’ll be given plenty of responsibility, working on real projects and meeting clients. You’ll be out and about on inspections, researching the market and presenting arguments. We’ll help you build up your competencies to ensure you are confident to sit your APC to become a chartered surveyor.

Building Surveying graduates based in the London office rotate amongst building consultancy, lease exit and project management. Those based nationally focus more on building consultancy as you will be part of a smaller team; however, you will still have the exposure to complete your APC and will have opportunities to work with the wider national team.

We recognise that you don’t have to achieve a degree in real estate to become a successful commercial property advisor. Graduates from any degree disciplines are welcome to apply.

The Chartered Surveyor Apprenticeship route to attain an MSc if eligible, which is a great option for non-cognates. You would be able to join a Graduate scheme and receive workplace training and development alongside completing your APC with the end result that you qualify for MRICS. As an Apprenticeship-levy paying employer, this would be of no cost to you.

Career Development

Career Development

Gerald Eve prides itself on being able to offer the highest standard of training and dedicated support for all its graduates and surveyors, continuing throughout your career.

Your progression will be supported and guided by managers and mentors using a transparent framework so you can clearly see what you need to do to get to where you want to be.

About You

About You

  • Studying a Batchelors or Masters degree (any discipline)
  • Demonstrate a passion for property and the built environment
  • Show a drive for excellent client service and a curiosity for how things can be improved
  • Demonstrate you have successfully applied yourself to academic study as well as wider activities
  • Excellent communication and technology skills
  • Excellent written and numeracy skills
  • Eye for detail and the desire to develop your career in a first-class environment

Application Process

Application Process

If you like Gerald Eve and wish to apply, we look forward to receiving your application.  Our process is very straightforward:

 

  • Complete the online application for the Assistant Surveyor, Planning Consultant vacancy by the stated deadline. You may choose to apply to more than one location if you wish; or you can apply for one and state within your application if you’d be open to another location.
  • You will receive an automatic acknowledgement email to let you know we have received your application successfully.
  • We aim to review all applications and contact applicants prior to the Christmas holidays. We will contact all applicants, whether successful or unsuccessful, so if you have not heard from us (even if some of your peers have), it means we are still reviewing applications.

 

  • Those successfully shortlisted will be invited to attend an assessment day throughout January. Our assessment days are limited to 12 people per day so if you can’t attend the day you are invited to, we will do our best to accommodate you on a different day, but this can’t be guaranteed.
  • Successful candidates will join in September.

 

If you have any questions about the application process, please contact [email protected]

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Quick Info

Team:

Building Consultancy

Project:

Hyde Park Estate

client:

The Church Commissioners for England manage an £8.3 billion investment fund. We have provided Building consultancy advice to them in respect of their Hyde Park Estate over a number of years. We were initially instructed to refurbish a Grade II Listed residential property on the estate.

 

Following the success of this project we have become a trusted advisor to the Church Commissioners, undertaking a range of institutions across their portfolio. These instructions include technical due diligence surveys of properties that they are seeking to acquire, project management of office, residential, services infrastructure and public realm schemes. We have also provided defect diagnosis and lease advice. A significant proportion of the property within the Hyde Park Estate is Listed. Therefore the careful management of the heritage of the buildings forms an integral part of our advice as does sustainability, which is key objective of the client and the management of the estate.

Quick info

Team:

Corporate Real Estate, Agency, Business Rates, Valuation & Planning

Project:

Bank of England

client:

In 2019 Gerald Eve were appointed by the Bank of England to provide Estate Professional Services across the UK. This encompasses a broad spectrum of advice and involves multiple departments across the firm at any given time.

 

The Bank’s property portfolio ranges from their Grade I* listed City of London Headquarters, which has almost as much space below ground as it does above, to its regional offices, where the Bank’s representatives gather the consensus of the nation to inform the Monetary Policy Committee, and everything in between. This includes the Printing works for production all of the UK’s bank notes and 28 acres of leafy suburban London, which houses the Bank of England Sports Ground.

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