I’m about to join the Capital Markets/Investment Banking division as an Analyst at a large commercial real estate services firm (think JLL/CBRE). My background is mainly commercial due diligence across multiple industries from strategy consulting, with just under two years of experience (ex MBB).
I took this role before fully thinking through the long term exits (and without a RE background), and I’m now trying to get a clearer picture of what career paths typically stem from CRE Capital Markets/IB.
A few questions I’d love input on:
What are the top exit opportunities from CRE Capital Markets? (e.g. REPE?)
How realistic is it to pivot from CRE Capital Markets into generalist PE (non real estate), or is that uncommon without a banking background?
For non investing paths, do people commonly move into corporate strategy and corp dev (either at RE companies or outside real estate)?
