How are REPE hours?

I know that traditional PE averages 60+, but what about REPE? Is it the same amount of hours on average?

Real estate Private equity work hours

The average work week in private equity is about 60 hours a week. If it’s on the acquisition side of things then it depends on deal flow. During dealtimes the hours can go up to 80 per week. However usually it’s a just a couple night until 8 or 9 per week and the occasional weekend

Here are the average hours worked at some of the largest real estate private equity firms. Information provided courtesy of the Starwood Capital Group: 67 hours

  • Lonestar: 66 hours
  • Assuming the job is in a major market, I'll echo what has already been said: 60 hour weeks made up through 12 hour weekdays and minimal time answering emails on weekends. During deal time, it usually swings up to 80-100 hrs depending on what stage of the deal process you're in.

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    It's all about deal flow if you are on the acquisitions side of things. Sometimes when there are lots of live deals you will be slammed and staying late (60+ hours/week), but if you only have 1 or 2 deals moving at a time hours can be extremely reasonable (45+ hours/week). Of course this will vary widely from firm to firm as well. MF's will have longer hours than family offices. Like everything else in RE it will not be very standardized.

     
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    TL;DR: PM puts in 50-60 hours at my shop, 2 analysts put in 70-80 hours.

    We are a growth shop and we have a certain allocation to REPE type of deals. The PM working on those deals puts in way too much hours thus, his two analysts also put in a lot of hours. The PM is on the road 2-3 days a week. While on the road, he puts in at least 10-12 hours of meeting, driving/going around, dining etc. When he is in the office, he is in at 6, works till 3:30, picks up kids, goes home for dinner, then he works another 2-3 hours. He constantly works on the weekend, my guess is another 5-10 hours. The two analysts working for him come in at 7:30, leave at 4-5, and work another 3-4 hours from home. I am sure they also work 10-15 hours on the weekend.

    The reason they work way more than the rest of the team is because their deal flows are insane. They run approximately $1.5B of opportunistic equity across the country and the size of each investment is just sub $50M so a lot of deals to do.

     

    Yes just acquisition guys. Having said that, our internal managers do not really spend a lot of time on these deals. They mostly just oversee because we prefer using local experts who are willing to put in 3-5% of the deal, or our partners provide Asset Management and we just monitor the process, or we hire a team when we acquire a REIT/REOC. We have 2 development guys on the asset management team spend most of their time on opportunistic developments though. Can't remember off the top of my head but I believe they currently have $300M in 7 development deals and just shy of $1B in ~ 12 deals in income producing properties.

     

    short answer in acquisitions is it depends on how lean your team is and dealflow. we have a team of 3 on acquisitions seeing everything that comes in from throughout the country and we typically work 7:45 to 6; 2 of the 3 usually work until 8 or 9.

     

    Assuming the job is in a major market, I'll echo what has already been said: 60 hour weeks made up through 12 hour weekdays and minimal time answering emails on weekends. During deal time, it usually swings up to 80-100 hrs depending on what stage of the deal process you're in.

    This is not applicable to all "top 50" funds, but I'd say a good amount of them.

     

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