Robert Half is seeking a real estate development and planning finance professional for a growing Real Estate client. In this role, you will support the evaluation of redevelopment opportunities across a portfolio of properties in the Greater Toronto Area.
The successful candidate will model and quantify redevelopment scenarios for older income-producing properties, assess what can be developed under current bylaws and planning assumptions, and compare current-state value versus future-state development potential. This resource will help translate planning reports and redevelopment densities into financial models that support strategic decision-making for senior leadership. This individual will work closely with the planning team, property management, and ownership groups, and will be comfortable presenting findings and recommendations to executives. This is a hybrid working arrangement with 3 days in office.
Key Responsibilities
- Analyze redevelopment opportunities for a portfolio of real estate assets in the Greater Toronto Area.
- Review existing planning reports, zoning information, redevelopment densities, and bylaw entitlements to determine potential development scenarios.
- Assess what can be built on each site under current zoning and planning frameworks, including high-level massing and density assumptions.
- Quantify potential redevelopment outcomes, including residential, commercial, and mixed-use concepts.
- Model potential large-scale development scenarios, including high-rise condominium concepts such as 50-storey towers where applicable.
- Develop financial models comparing:
- Build scenario analyses that outline:
- Estimate development timelines, including entitlement, planning, approvals, acquisition, and construction horizons.
- Create practical frameworks and formulas to evaluate redevelopment logic across multiple properties in a consistent manner.
- Produce high-level development feasibility analyses, including assumptions around cost to build, density, timing, and returns.
- Work with owners and property management teams to gather property-level operating and market information.
- Present findings, models, and recommendations to the executive team in a clear and commercially practical manner.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in real estate development analysis, real estate finance, urban planning economics, or related fields.
- Strong experience with financial modeling for real estate redevelopment, land value analysis, and feasibility studies.
- Knowledge of Toronto and Greater Toronto Area zoning, planning processes, redevelopment entitlements, and bylaw analysis.
- Experience evaluating existing income-producing assets alongside redevelopment potential.
- Strong understanding of development costs, capital requirements, valuation methodologies, and project timelines.
- Ability to interpret planning reports, density studies, and redevelopment assumptions and convert them into clear financial models.
- Experience with residential, commercial, and mixed-use asset classes.
- Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills required.
- Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain assumptions, logic, and scenarios to senior executives.
- Comfortable interacting with property owners, asset management, and property management stakeholders.
- Professional background in real estate development, investment, valuation, planning advisory, or development consulting preferred.
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