Real Estate Capital Markets in Atlanta??

Hi WSO,

I am hunting for a good real estate capital markets job in Atlanta. Preferably not investment banking as I don't like the hours. I work as an Analyst in the Transaction Real Estate group of EY in New York. I worked in real estate investment banking at a New York boutique for a year and half before joining EY - so i've put in the hours already.

I can't find anything decent in ATL. SunTrust is always hiring but that's ibanking. I know Raymond James also has a large ibanking real estate group there.

Is there any private equity or capital markets, or advisory role (sell-side) that doesn't involve me working until 2am in the morning?

Does anyone working in banking in ATL know employers that I should be talking to??

Much appreciated 100 times over!!

H.

 
Best Response

I'm not in the Atlanta area anymore, but here is a rough list of what I know. Some are remote offices, others are HQs. PM me if you want to chat.

PERE: -Stockbridge -Colony Capital -Jamestown -Clarion Partners -LaSalle Investment Management -MetLife RE Investors -Rialto Capital -Trimont RE Advisors -ARES

REITs: -Cousins -Cortland Partners -Piedmont REIT -Columbia Property Trust -Parkway Properties -Duke Realty

 

Thanks so much guys. Yes CRE-Finance, REPE is ideal but i'm hoping for the flexibility of working on several asset classes, if possible. Diversified REPEs, or perhaps large pension funds and asset managers, like Manulife or CPPIB that would have a RE Asset Management arm, RE debt capital markets arm, etc.

Count_Chocula, you're right on the money! That's a good opportunity i'll apply for.

Indexmatch that's a great list i'll PM you after work.

This is great guys thanks for all the help!!

 
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Thanks so much guys. Yes CRE-Finance, REPE is ideal but i'm hoping for the flexibility of working on several asset classes, if possible. Diversified REPEs, or perhaps large pension funds and asset managers, like Manulife or CPPIB that would have a RE Asset Management arm, RE debt capital markets arm, etc.

Count_Chocula, you're right on the money! That's a good opportunity i'll apply for.

Indexmatch that's a great list i'll PM you after work.

This is great guys thanks for all the help!!

No worries, happy to pass it along. As an aside, the LIM office in Atlanta is pretty Asset Management focused; I'm almost 100% that there are no acquisition personnel based out of there. Starwood also has an office in Cumberland. Check out Portman Holdings as well. If you ask me, unless you get in at Jamestown, that Stockbridge gig is the best one around right now.

 

bumping this to see if anyone has info on Stockbridge. looks like it was started from a spin off of PaineWebbers first RE fund. Browsed their site and deal flow looks strong (also a decent amount of former RREEF folks...idk what that means). have heard through the grapevine about new clients/commitments. just haven't heard too much about the culture. everything seems to point in a good direction, but curious if anyone has any additional information.

 
indexmatch:

bumping this to see if anyone has info on Stockbridge. looks like it was started from a spin off of PaineWebbers first RE fund. Browsed their site and deal flow looks strong (also a decent amount of former RREEF folks...idk what that means). have heard through the grapevine about new clients/commitments. just haven't heard too much about the culture. everything seems to point in a good direction, but curious if anyone has any additional information.

To me the ex-RREEF dudes is a plus, great group to roll out of. The guys I know in Atlanta are really nice, pretty sharp and calculated in the way they look at deals (I only dealt with them on resi), they're a little nerdy but socially competent (this is a good thing), and they pay well (never talked specifics, but a guy I know there said he was making 100k all in as an analyst there, which could be true but he could've also been blowing smoke up my ass).

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CREF1524:

What're your thoughts on Lending? I know Greystone has a Freddie Mac SBL office down there, which has tremendous deal flow.

I never worked with them, but I do know some guys over there and your comment on their deal flow is correct. They do a ton, and I like the people I know there and they seem to work hard with relatively reasonable hours. For MF lending (where I've spent most of my time), the top teams in the area are Walker and Dunlop (Craig West and co., we work with them on a national basis), CBRE (Robert LaChapelle), JLL (Faron Thompson and John Bray), and possibly Greystone (can't comment to intimately about volume as I haven't worked a deal with them). I'm sure I'm missing some power players as all of the national shops have a presence.

 

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