🏢 Real Estate Virtual Assistant Portfolio

By Douglas Banda

I’m a Real Estate Virtual Assistant with hands-on experience supporting commercial real estate professionals with their daily operations, outreach, newsletters, and social media.

I currently support MillAnalytics — a Monte Carlo simulation platform for real estate — by managing their newsletter, researching investment offerings, running outreach campaigns, and creating LinkedIn content that gets noticed.

My focus is simple:
Free up your time, keep your audience informed, and drive qualified investor leads.

🧩 What I Do for Real Estate Clients

📊 Sponsor & Deal Research

  • Curating CRE offerings by asset class, location, sponsor history, and strategy
  • Tracking new deals across 50+ sponsor platforms daily

📰 Newsletter Management

  • Writing and publishing The CRE Equity Alert newsletter using Beehiiv
  • Featuring 8–10 curated deals with consistent formatting, tone, and summaries
  • Optimizing layout, subject lines, and CTAs for better engagement

✉️ Cold Email Outreach

  • Using Hunter.io and Apollo to build cold email lists of CIOs, Acquisitions VPs, and GPs
  • Sending personalized cold emails to boost newsletter sign-ups and demo interest

📱 Social Media Management

  • Writing weekly LinkedIn posts featuring top offerings and market trends
  • Running polls and engagement experiments to grow visibility
  • Designing branded visuals in Canva

📂 Data Entry & Admin Support

  • Building databases of sponsors, deals, and investor types
  • Tagging deals by asset type, equity size, IRR, and more
  • Supporting internal research and CRM updates

💼 Real Work Highlights from MillAnalytics

📰 The CRE Equity Alert Newsletter

Daily newsletter curating top U.S. commercial real estate offerings
✅ 30+ editions published
✅ 8–10 featured deals per issue
✅ Beehiiv-based formatting + subject line optimization

Example: “The CRE Equity Alert – September 15 – 16 Offerings totaling $776 Million”

🔍 CRE Sponsor & Offering Research

Built live databases of 700+ sponsors and offerings
✅ Tagging by location, asset type, equity required
✅ Weekly refresh of active deals
✅ Supports both newsletter and outreach efforts

✉️ Cold Email Outreach Campaigns

Targeted campaigns to CIOs, GPs, and Partners
✅ Hunter.io + Apollo scraping
✅ 3 contacts per company
✅ Personalization using offer and sponsor tags
✅ Boosted newsletter subscriber base + demo signups

📱 LinkedIn Content Creation

Weekly content to boost authority and visibility
✅ Highlighting CRE deal trends
✅ Polls to engage industry professionals
✅ Designed in Canva, posted via client profile

“10 Underrated CRE Offerings We Featured This Week”
Poll: “Which asset class are you watching right now?”

🛠 Tools I Use

  • Beehiiv – Newsletter creation
  • Hunter.io / Apollo – Cold outreach & lead gen
  • LinkedIn – Social media visibility
  • Canva – Graphic design
  • Notion / Airtable / Google Sheets – Research & database building
  • ChatGPT / Grammarly – Writing support
  • Zoom / Slack / ClickUp – Collaboration
  • HubSpot – CRM Software

💬 What Clients Say

“Douglas is reliable, proactive, and a big reason our newsletter runs daily without fail. He’s constantly suggesting ways to improve efficiency and outreach.”
— MillAnalytics Team

🚀 Let’s Work Together

If you’re in real estate — whether a syndicator, investor, or startup founder — I can help you stay consistent, build authority, and generate qualified leads.

📧 Email: help@vadouglasbanda.com
🌍 Website: vadouglasbanda.com
🔗 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/douglasbanda