Junior Summer Internship | Small REPE Firm vs CBRE Investment Sales / DSF

I am currently struggling to decide which opportunity would provide a better learning experience in terms of deal exposure, as well as enhance my prospects of being recruited by larger real estate private equity (REPE) firms for full-time positions. Would a role in Investment Sales or Debt & Structured Finance at CBRE be more advantageous, or would a position at a smaller REPE firm in New York City be a better option?

Any advice on this matter would be greatly appreciated.

 
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Exposure to deal flow probably will not be happening too much in either case if we are being honest. Putting that aside, if your end goal is to work at a REPE shop after college then interning at one that could potentially lead to a FT offer would be my advice. The only reason to take the brokerage internship is just to have CBRE on your resume, and while that might help you get a FT offer when you're ready to graduate you still are going to have to answer the questions of how your experience actually applies to investing. If you work hands on with a buy-side firm you have exposure to the actual thought process of deals if you are lucky to sit in some meetings with the Investment Committee and be able to say on a resume more applicable skills and exposure than trying to translate brokerage skills over. 

Either way, its great that you were able to secure an internship at either place in times like this and you can't really go wrong one way or the other. Good luck!

 

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