Acquisitions Analyst (Affordable Housing)

About the role

Incredible opportunity for a 2‑4 year Multifamily Acquisitions Analyst to join one of the fastest‑growing private equity firms in the Southeast. The firm is a rapidly growing, vertically integrated real estate investment company seeking an Acquisitions Analyst for its Acquisitions & Capital Markets team, specializing in multifamily investments with a focus on affordable housing and LIHTC properties. The role provides exposure across the full transaction lifecycle—acquisitions, dispositions, refinancings, underwriting, due diligence, and closings—working closely with senior investment professionals.

Responsibilities

• Support acquisition, disposition, and refinance transactions from initial diligence through closing.
• Build, organize, and maintain transaction data rooms and manage document flow across multiple active deals.
• Coordinate directly with sellers, brokers, lenders, property managers, attorneys, and other transaction counterparties.
• Maintain closing checklists, document request lists, transaction timelines, and critical deadlines.
• Coordinate third‑party diligence including property condition assessments, environmental reports, surveys, appraisals, and title work.
• Prepare initial acquisition underwriting models and financial analyses for review by senior investment professionals.
• Analyze and normalize rent rolls, trailing financial statements, unit mix data, and property operating information.
• Perform affordable‑housing rent analyses involving LIHTC rent and income limits, AMI set‑asides, utility allowances, HOME limits, HAP contract rents, and OCAF adjustments.
• Assist with capital expenditure and property‑level capital needs analysis.
• Support lender and equity submissions and preparation of transaction/offering materials.
• Coordinate internally with accounting, property management, compliance, and other teams during property transitions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Real Estate, Accounting, Economics, or a related discipline.
• Approximately 2‑4 years of experience within multifamily real estate, affordable housing, acquisitions, asset management, underwriting, or another transaction‑heavy real estate environment.

Skills

• Strong Excel skills.
• Ability to work across multiple transactions and deadlines simultaneously.
• Experience administering data rooms, managing due diligence, reviewing transaction documents, or coordinating closings.
• Direct LIHTC/affordable housing experience is a plus.
• Knowledge of LURAs, rent and income restrictions, AMI requirements, HOME, HUD, USDA Rural Development, Section 8/HAP contracts, Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac financing, or tax‑exempt bonds.
• Experience with CoStar, RealPage, Entrata, and AI productivity tools such as Claude is valuable.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary.
• Company‑paid health plan for employees.
• Very generous PTO.
• Dental and vision coverage.
• FSA and HSA.
• Small team with autonomy.
• Many more great perks.

Pay

$70,000 – $80,000 per year.