Where do you work (boutique or big shop)? What was your academic background before the job? What did you do to get the job/what was your route? What is your day-to-day like? What is your pay and hours? Would you recommend this job as a first job in CRE? If you are no longer doing appraisals, what are you doing now? Thanks in advance

Boutique Shop in Midwest, but had clients nationally. Real Estate Finance Major at non-target UG I had an internship in valuations and got an offer at one of the competitors when I graduated. The day to day was 9-10 hours of pulling comps, market research, modeling, and writing the damn report (100+ pages, even with template). I second what Swimtexan said. Straight out of undergrad so $48k base only for 50-60 hour weeks. I stayed for 8 months before getting recruited to another firm. Great first job to learn the industry and the ground work/levels of commercial real estate.

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Where do you work (boutique or big shop)?
What was your academic background before the job?
What did you do to get the job/what was your route?
What is your day-to-day like?
What is your pay and hours?
Would you recommend this job as a first job in CRE?
If you are no longer doing appraisals, what are you doing now?

Thanks in advance

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Service Academy (US Naval Academy)
Former Naval Officer, selected for summer internship at CBRE and networked into a full time position with Valuation and Advisory Services
12+ Hours of Comps/Modelling/ARGUS while sitting at the computer
Salary + Bonus - Made 122K first year (60K was my salary with % based monthly bonus)
Best first job to "cut your teeth" and then breakout if necessary

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"Swimtexan" * CBRE * Service Academy (US Naval Academy) * Former Naval Officer, selected for summer internship at CBRE and networked into a full time position with Valuation and Advisory Services * 12+ Hours of Comps/Modelling/ARGUS while sitting at the computer * Salary + Bonus - Made 122K first year (60K was my salary with % based monthly bonus) * Best first job to "cut your teeth" and then breakout if necessary

Great, thank you for your response. DM'd you.

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