Investment Associate - property
Tritax

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I’m Maddie, I am an investment associate for Tritax Eurobox, and I’m based in London.

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So generally speaking, an investment associate

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will look at the market and try and find warehouses for cheap.

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And then they might do

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some asset management, which could be getting a tenant in there

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or doing an extension or different projects like that.

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And then eventually you will, hopefully, all going well, sell it for more money.

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The best thing is probably the travel and the socialisation of it,

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because you have to make contacts across the industry.

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You’re often working one-on-one with people, so you have to rely on agents

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to give you market knowledge and to connect you with different types

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of investors and occupiers who you want to put in your assets,

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so that’s pretty fun.

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So I did maths at GCSE and A-level and then
my degree was accounting and finance.

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So I wanted to go into something that was mathematically-focused.

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So I leant more on the finance aspect of my degree rather than the accounting.

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My boss, Elina, used to work at JLL.

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I had to do work shadowing at JLL, and I kept in contact with her since I was 15 –

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we went for lunch together every year. And then when I finished my degree,

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she said if you want an internship at Tritax, they might take pity on you.

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So I came for three months.

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I did the graduate scheme for about a year and a half, and then,

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I now work permanently under Elina.

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I didn’t know what I wanted to do, but my dad does real estate,

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so I saw that it was really fun.

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And so I just thought,

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I’m not going to chain myself to a desk and be an accountant.

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So I was born deaf in one ear.

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And I had to have a couple of surgeries when I was younger,

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and then it’s all been fine.

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I was going to get – I was meant to get a hearing aid at school.

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I decided not to and I just get on with it. So it’s my right ear that’s deaf.

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So everyone has to kind of place themselves on my left hand side.

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Well, I think the thing is,

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to try and do something that you love or you think you’re going to love

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because you never know if you’re actually going to love it.

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Just finding enjoyment in it and then you wake up

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happy on a Monday rather than sad and waking up sad on a Monday is no fun.