As a property, housing and estate manager, you’ll use your organisational skills to manage land and property for the public, private or heritage sector. Learn more about working in property, housing and estate management, and get an idea of what it involves and how you can get a role.
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You’ll typically use your first role to gain more experience in your chosen area of management. As you build experience, you might train in certain areas of management to advance in your field. This could be a bat survey qualification for rural and estate managers, for example, or training in residential law for property managers.
With experience, you’ll be able to get more senior roles with larger property portfolios or complex, specialist management responsibilities. As a senior manager you might manage a team of property managers and look after a whole organisation’s assets.
Self-employment is common in this field, as you might start your own property management company offering rental services to tenants or expert consultancy to other companies.
Joining organisations like Property Mark will allow you to access a range of continuing professional development (CPD) courses that will help you build your skills and boost your employability.
Further training in related areas like finance, strategy and policy making is a common step for housing managers, often through Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH).
Estate managers might specialise in one area through training with the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).
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