Seeking Advice - Breaking into CRE (REPE, AM, REIT)
Looking to break into REPE. Current 2nd year at Cornell Hotel graduating early in may 2026, with limited experience aside from hotel asset management internship. Any recommendations on courses or materials to prep for full-time recruiting to get back up to speed in addition to grinding for a summer 2025 internship in CRE. I have been networking and schedule lots of calls with alumni and looking to get solid opportunities for this summer, but also trying to play catch up being behind on the curriculum compared to my peers who have completed junior level coursework. I would love some suggestions for maybe which firms might start recruiting in the spring and would be a solid opportunity for this summer in a role among brokerage, development, and reit's.
Jaded senior who recruited repe and ib, happy to help, just dm if u have any questions. Firms recruiting in spring for that summer are mostly smaller firms or reits, everyone else either recruits in line with banking or in fall.
Take a gap semester to get that junior internship.
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There's still stuff coming out as we speak. If you don't get anything by the time the new year comes, I'd start cold calling small REPE firms and see if you can get in that way. Look the ones up in the area you wanna work in and then start calling. You can also check the shops alumni are at.
Just remember you’re entering a field that is narrowing. Not trying to be negative here but as you move up, each rung offers fewer and fewer opportunities to move up further.
name one industry that isn't like this
Hourly healthcare workers with scalability - nurses, X-ray techs, etc - can make decent money with solid portability between employers. I can’t believe how good the pay is now - though the working conditions suck.
Obviously that’s a world away from what we do and I’m not trying to be snide. All careers have their upside or downside. Just seems lately that there is less upward mobility in CRE as the boom times end and firms reckon with stagnant deal volume.
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