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Zherrinore Rasay - Sr. CRE Analyst

Location: Philippines

Compensation range discussed: $1,500 - $2,100

LinkedIn Profile | email: zherrinore@gmail.com | Phone: +63 917 320 5452

Schedule Availability (EST): 7:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Earliest date she could join if receiving an offer: 2 weeks after receiving an offer (negotiable)

Summary

Real Estate Appraiser and licensed Civil Engineer currently pursuing a Master's degree in Land Valuation and Management, with 10 years of property valuation experience, including 3+ years supporting a Chicago-based appraisal firm, primarily across the US residential, commercial, and industrial real estate markets. Her expertise centers on developing comprehensive narrative and form appraisal reports for commercial assets (office, retail, and mixed-use) across Chicago, Illinois, and Charlotte, North Carolina. She specializes in conducting preliminary analyses for tax appeals, leveraging data to determine retrospective market values that secure tax savings for law firm clients. Highly proficient in extracting comparable sales data from CoStar and MLS to review real estate documents like Offering Memorandums (OMs). Demonstrating strong analytical initiative, she optimized commercial workflows by configuring automated Excel templates that streamline MLS data exports and eliminate manual entry. Her technical capabilities include Total by Alamode, AppraiseIT Pro, and ChatGPT, enabling efficient and accurate market research.

Meet Zherrinore

This video from our screening interview provides a look into Zherrinore's background and experience:

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Candidate Snapshot

US-based Real Estate Experience

• 3+ Years of Direct US Market Support: Serves as a Real Estate Appraiser Assistant supporting a Chicago-based firm since 2021, directly handling commercial and residential assets in Chicago, Illinois, and Charlotte, North Carolina.

• US Client Exposure: Engages with US-based appraisers, law firms, and financial institutions—including Bank of America—to provide commercial appraisal reports, commercial loan assessments, and tax appeal analyses.

Real Estate Documentation Development

• Preliminary Valuations: Develops preliminary analyses ("prelims") for law offices, establishing retrospective market value ranges for tax appeals.

• Deal Materials Familiarity: Regularly reviews and extracts financial and property data from Offering Memorandums (OMs) via CoStar to analyze comparable sales, building conditions, rent rolls, and recent renovations.

Commercial Real Estate Expertise

• 10 Years of Valuation Experience: Possesses a decade of property appraisal experience, applying the Sales Comparison Approach, Income Capitalization Approach, and Cost Approach for commercial (office, retail, mixed-use), residential, and industrial properties.

• Zoning, Review & Feasibility Analysis: Conducts zoning analyses for property reclassification and evaluates ongoing construction for project monitoring and investment viability, also has experience reviewing third-party appraisal reports.

• Complex Reporting: Prepares comprehensive Restricted Appraisal Reports and Full Appraisal Reports in strict compliance with International Valuation Standards (IVS).

Education

• Master's in Land Valuation and Management | University of the Philippines (2022–Current)
• Diploma in Land Valuation and Management | University of the Philippines (2019)
• Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering | Mariano Marcos State University (2013)

Tools used

• Real Estate & Data: CoStar, MLS, Total by Alamode, AppraiseIT Pro, Microsoft Excel (Data organization, template creation).
• Design & Presentation: Canva, Microsoft PowerPoint, Google Slides.
• General: ChatGPT, Microsoft Office Suite.

Key Qualifications & Highlights

• Workflow Automation & Data Processing: Identified an operational bottleneck in the comparable sales extraction process and configured a custom MLS export filter paired with a standardized Excel template. This eliminated manual data entry, reduced processing time, and established tighter, more accurate market value ranges for preliminary analyses.

• Multidisciplinary Technical Expertise: Combines deep valuation experience with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering. Holds licenses as a Civil Engineer, Real Estate Broker, Real Estate Consultant, and Master Plumber, providing a unique structural and analytical perspective when evaluating property features, construction quality, and market trends.

• Targeted Financial Analysis for Tax Appeals: Specializes in calculating retrospective market values to secure tax savings for law firm clients. Leverages robust historical data analysis to build compelling financial narratives that justify lower tax assessments.

• Cross-Functional Real Estate Operations: Transitions seamlessly between granular data extraction (rent rolls, zoning codes, comp conditions) and high-level client communication, directly clarifying property details and income-producing asset metrics with US stakeholders.

Screening Interview - Key Observations

• Motivation through Client Impact: Beyond the technical analysis, she finds high motivation in the tangible results of her work. She highlighted a key professional achievement in which clients provided positive feedback and successfully sold properties at optimal prices, based on her dual-value (retrospective and current) market appraisals.

• Task Preference (Automation over Manual Entry): She actively seeks to eliminate high-volume manual data entry. During the interview, she expressed strong enthusiasm for the client's AI platform, highlighting her eagerness to transition from inputting preliminary analysis data and formulas "one by one" in Excel to generating Broker Opinion of Values (BOVs) through an automated platform.

• Areas for Improvement (Marketing Deliverables): She explicitly identified a lack of professional experience in creating or designing commercial presentations, Broker Opinion of Values (BOVs), Offering Memorandums (OMs), or loan packages from scratch. Because her interaction with these materials has been strictly analytical, the marketing and visual design aspects of this role would represent an area for improvement and a learning curve. • Process Improvement & Proactivity: Demonstrated a strong focus on workflow optimization and accuracy, mentioning that she took the initiative to propose and build a targeted MLS-to-Excel export filter after identifying that bulk data downloads were creating overly wide and inaccurate market value ranges for the appraisal team.

• Role & Structural Queries: Showed a strategic interest in the startup's operational footprint, inquiring whether the scope covered the entire US or specific states, and asking about the presence of existing US-based appraisers within the team.