Savills Summer Scheme Student Review

Working on service charge budgets, budget reports and reconciliation reports. Reading through leases to determine repair responsibilities and to check rents, rent review dates and break option dates. Contacting tenants to collect rent and service charge arrears, and to provide them with updated policies. I went to a number of site visits, to carry out inspections.

I have contact tenants directly regarding arrears, updated policies and other queries and I have completed a number of budget and reconciliation reports and updated tenancy schedules. Through networking events, I have also met a number of directors, who have given me advice and guidance to continue my career in real estate.

I have learnt a lot during my internship, especially having not studied real estate before, including reading a lease, interpret service charge budgets and expenditure and tenancy schedules, and completing reports. During the month I spent at Savills, I have met people from many areas of the business, expanding my knowledge of the services offered by Savills, and improving my interpersonal and networking skills.

I was assigned a mentor who I have worked with directly throughout my month at Savills, who gave me tasks to do and talked me through anything I did not understand and was happy to answer any questions I had. I felt very supported throughout my internship, from HR and the graduate recruitment team, and also from all members within my team.

Savills is a very friendly and welcoming company, and assigning each intern a mentor definitely helped to ease us into the business. The interns were encouraged to socialise within each other, and we had walking tours, networking drinks and welcome breakfasts.

I really enjoyed my internship, as my team were very supportive and I enjoyed all of the work I completed. I definitely want to continue my career at Savills.

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