Insurance companies with Real Estate Arms? Allianz and Metlife?

I used to work at a LifeCo lender however our shop was pretty lean, about 20 people. The work can be interesting and for someone with limited RE experience they can be a great place to learn a lot about the field, but after a certain point most of your work is going to be pretty routine. You'll typically have a market or region that you'll get to know really well via Google Maps and maybe the occasional trip to go meet the sponsor, but until you're higher up you probably won't see many buildings or meet brokers & sponsors in person. At the AD/MD level it's very relationship driven, but in my experience I saw more colleagues matriculate into debt brokerage than into REPE, which was always kind of interesting. My team was in the Midwest and I'd say comp was pretty competitive. Heavier on the base with a small bonus, maybe 10%. This gets closer to 65/35 towards the top. No carry. These teams run lean though I mean you don't need a huge team of people to lend like $10B a year so I feel like moving upwards can be more difficult and everyone had been there for awhile. Personally, I'd go to the REPE shop. 70k in Texas doesn't sound bad and you'll be much closer to the actual decision makers (I would think). The way these LifeCos are structured even your department head is pretty far removed from the BSD's and the actual deal makers. My team worked on a lot of stuff, multifamily, office, industrial and retail, so it was cool getting some exposure to different deals. We'd typically look at anything from 5-100MM. This is getting long winded but I hope that answered some questions!

First post btw!.