Building a Global Career in Real Estate

Beyond Brokerage
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-14968-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Real estate is the world's largest asset class and a highly influential career choice. Property surveyors shape our economies, cities, communities, and investment markets globally. Despite its scale and significance, many aspiring professionals are unaware of the diversity of careers that exist in real estate, often associating it with a career in brokerage.

Building a Global Career in Real Estate: Beyond Brokerage offers a comprehensive introduction to the modern real estate profession, revealing the breadth of opportunities available in valuation, investment, asset and property management, development, and consultancy. The book explains what real estate professionals do and how their roles are defined throughout the property lifecycle. It offers a wide range of perspectives across other themes such as career planning; job satisfaction; building resilience and advice on how to future-proof your career in the real estate sector, exploring the profound impact of digital transformation, artificial intelligence, data analytics, and sustainability on real estate.

The book combines academic insight with industry experience to provide practical advice based on the author’s 20 years of experience in teaching and professional mentoring, including guidance on professional qualification and RICS chartership. Designed for students, graduates, educators, and early-career professionals, it equips readers with the understanding needed to choose a career pathway and appreciate the wider role that real estate professionals play in creating, managing, valuing, and transforming the built environment. or solving some of the globe’s social, environmental and economic problems.

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development, Professional Training, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Waters, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaft: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften: Berufe, Ausbildung, Karriereplanung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Projektmanagement
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Immobilienwirtschaft
• Rechtswissenschaften Bürgerliches Recht Sachenrecht Grundstücks- und Immobilienrecht, Immobiliarsachenrecht, Nachbarrecht
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Berufspraxis
• Technische Wissenschaften Bauingenieurwesen Baukonstruktion, Baufachmaterialien
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Anlagen & Wertpapiere
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Berufliche Bildung Berufs- und Studienberatung, Karriereplanung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART A: Why Enter a Career in Real Estate? 1. Real Estate Brokerage 2. Why Real Estate 3. Opportunities Knock: Where Can I Work in Real Estate? 4. Real Estate Brokerage: A Crowded House? How to Pivot into More Strategic Roles in Real Estate  PART B: Becoming a Real Estate Professional 5. The Only Way is Ethics: Why it Matters for Your Career in Real Estate? 6. Becoming a Global Professional: Qualifying as a Chartered Surveyor  PART C: Routes into Real Estate 7. Valuation 8. Commercial and Residential Surveying 9. Investment management  10. Development  PART D: Future Directions  11. Building a future proof career: How to stay relevant and resilient in real estate?  12. How to build your real estate career in key global markets

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Waters is a leading global real estate academic. He is a qualified Chartered Surveyor (MRICS) and he has worked in real estate academia for over 20 years, having undertaken teaching and research roles at some of the UK’s most prestigious universities. He is an assessor and chairperson for the RICS and has mentored significant numbers of professionals through their APC final assessment.