One of the best things about the real estate business is the sheer amount of options available as far as where you can take your career, but this can also cause some pretty serious analysis paralysis for people just getting started. What you do and where you work in your first few years in […]
There are over 5 million commercial buildings and over 6 million multifamily properties in the United States, and if you’re an investor who hasn’t narrowed down your search criteria yet, you’ll have a lot of options to sift through. Real estate investment firms know this very well, and to narrow down their search to […]
Landing a job in commercial real estate isn’t easy, but once you actually do land that job, the real work begins. And to stand out in a commercial real estate analyst or associate role, there are a few key things that the highest performers in the industry do, that set them (far) apart from […]
The term “pay your dues” was a phrase I heard over and over again at the start of my career, and to be honest, these words always rubbed me the wrong way. Career growth is not linear and definitely isn’t the same for everyone, and having a certain number of years of experience under […]
According to a 2020 survey from the reference-checking company Checkster, 78% of candidates who applied for a job over the previous 6-month period admitted they either misrepresented or would consider misrepresenting themselves on their applications, including 60% of respondents saying they had a mastery of skills they actually rarely used. Employers know that job […]
The commercial real estate job search has a lot of moving pieces, and even if you’ve gone through this process before in other industries, the timelines, requirements, and expectations in real estate are unique. And if you go into this process not knowing the rules of the game up front, you’re putting yourself at […]
If there’s one thing I’ve learned since starting Break Into CRE Academy, it’s that a very high percentage of people that get into the real estate industry have aspirations to go out on their own, and any jobs they take before then are taken with the primary goal to prepare them for that process. […]
Just because you chose to major in a subject when you were 18 years old doesn’t mean that interest is going to last forever, and most people don’t know exactly what they want to do with their lives the minute they graduate from college. And if you’re looking to break into commercial real estate […]
The internal rate of return is one of the most widely used metrics in all of commercial real estate, but this also tends to be one of the least easily understood. The textbook definition of the IRR is, “The discount rate at which the net present value of a set of cash flows is […]
Acquisitions and asset management are two of the most popular career paths in the commercial real estate industry, but even though these both tend to be some of the most desirable jobs for new entrants into the business, these are two very different career paths built for very different people. I personally spent several […]
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