Topic 7: Overview of Real Estate Finance

To start off our discussion of the real estate finance industry, let's take a look at the link below for an overview of what real estate finance is all about and what kind of jobs are available in this field.

http://www.selectleaders.com/real-estate-jobs-finance

Within the real estate finance arena, there are very diverse jobs and organizations to work for. You could work for pension funds, insurance firms, different kinds of banks, and even credit unions. Within those organizations, a wide array of jobs are available including: investment bankers, mortgage bankers, mortgage brokers, as well as underwriting. You could also go into loan origination, servicing current loans, and refinancing of loans. Other opportunities are also available to pool loans together in the form of mortgage backed securities (MBS) and commercial mortgage backed securities (CBMS) that can be sold/exchanged on the secondary market.

As mentioned before we talked about the wide array of companies and firms to work for within real estate finance. Let's take a look at the link below and check out the top 10 private equity real estate firms in the US:

http://llenrock.com/blog/10-largest-private-equity-real-estate-firms/

1. The Blackstone Group
2. Morgan Stanley
3. Goldman Sachs
4. Colony Capital
5. Beacon Capital Partners
6. Lehman Brothers
7. LeSalle Investment Management
8. Tishman Speyer
9.  The Carlyle Group
10. Westbrook Capital Partners