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Role Description

This is a freelance, hourly contract role working on a project basis.

• PDF Mining: Extract structured data from scanned or text-based PDFs, including property records and filings.
• Web Scraping: Develop scrapers to pull data from public websites, real estate portals, and government records.
• Interactive & Custom Data Visualization: Build bespoke maps, charts, and dashboards to support editorial storytelling.
• Data Cleaning & Normalization: Standardize, deduplicate, and reconcile inconsistent records across multiple sources.
• Entity Resolution & Research: Identify and verify real estate entities (buyers, sellers, LLCs, brokers, developers) using registries and public records.
• Story Support & Collaboration: Partner with editors and reporters to translate data into compelling narratives, graphics, and insights.
• Automation & Workflow Scripting: Create and refine scripts to automate routine data tasks, including scheduled scraping and data transformation.
• Manual Record Cleaning: Willingness to perform tedious but essential data tasks, such as reconciling names, addresses, or document IDs by hand.

Qualifications

• Journalistic Rigor & Detail Orientation: Capable of tracing data lineage, documenting sources, and identifying inconsistencies or red flags.
• Strong Data Literacy in a Real Estate Context: Ability to understand how data reflects trends, transactions, and players in the property world.

Company Description

The Real Deal is the largest real-estate news outlet in the US, reaching millions of professionals daily through our media channels. We have received 60+ awards for editorial excellence over the past six years, including the General Excellence award from the Society of Business Writers and Editors.

• Quantcast rates us among the 300-most visited sites in the US and the website with the wealthiest audience and one of the most educated.
• As a publication, The Real Deal is to real estate what Variety is to entertainment or what Politico is to Beltway politics – a plugged-in news outlet that is read by the entire industry.
• We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.
• We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
• We partner with our employees to support diversity and inclusion in the workplace and through higher education programs supporting rising journalists.
• We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses.
• These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans.