Salary - Real Estate Acquisitions or Asset Management

What is the typical salary range for a PRE MBA senior analyst or associate with 3 to 5 years experience at a boutique real estate fund doing acquisitions and Asset Management ? Various suggestions are welcome for salary and expected bonus range. Duties will include OM write up, deal brief write up, research, argus modelling, cashflow modeling, JV structuring, cold calling brokers and 3rd parties to get information for due diligence, etc. Please include years of experience and salary/bonus and your focus, acquisitions or assetmangement. Thanks!!

 

With enough context/info, I bet i/we could get pretty close in terms of an estimate. 1. Would the job be in NYC?
2. When you say 'boutique,' are you referring to a low number of people, or do you mean there's a small amount of money in the fund?
3. Most important of all, and I hate to harp on this, but how 'prestigious' are the backgrounds of the people there? Are they HBS alumni who used to work at DLJ Real Estate? This will be your best indicator.

3 has been talked about before on here. These are all pretty standard indicators I'd look at to get an idea.

 

small fund with about $600MM in total assets. the company is based in washington, dc metro area with about 13 including Managing Partners and 15 backoffice staff. most of the owners went to decent schools without MBAs. they made money during the tech boom and began a real estate operation in the late 90s

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i wanted to throw up when i received the offer 70 ot 75k with 20 to 50% bonus as senior associate! not worth it!!! i make 84k base and 19k bonus last year. NEXT!!

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3.5 years in real estate acquisitions / development and 4 years in corporate banking. transitioned out of real state due to the recession. i plan to go to grad school in the fall to get with an institutional firm. cost to pay the piper to get the job i want at a top tier firm!

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I think that many people have unrealistic expectations of the CRE industry. The truth is, that most acquisitions gigs don't pay that well, when compared to traditional high finance.

I am just throwing this out there for any prospective monkeys that are reading this, because many people seem to picture REPE comp for instance, to be in line with general PE. You can do very well, but the big bump generally comes all at once when you get the big promotion, whatever the title (Partner, MD, Principal, etc.) may be at your shop.

Please don't quote Patrick Bateman.
 

My first and more serious answer is that I have a hunch that the market rate for those guys is higher because they have the perfect background to walk away for a high-paying brokerage job. They have the contacts on all sides, they have the transaction experience, and so on.

Also, there are a ton of asset managers who just buy and hold with zero rehab or renovation. In such cases, my personal opinion is that they have a lot less to do with the success of the investment than the person handling the purchase and dispo/exit. Not to mention the luck involved, the rising or falling tide of the market. Again, just a possible argument that crosses my mind.

 
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