Advice on a career in commercial RE
Evening All,

Title sums it up. I want to change my career and get into the world of real estate. Now from my research I would certainly prefer to go down the route of commercial real estate rather than residential and work for a property development or investment firm rather than a brokerage.

Im 29 and graduated with a Business Studies Degree and my career to date has involved working heavily in the fitness industry as well as hospitality and recruitment. I work as a personal trainer at the moment but also run the business develop section, the recruitment and work on closing sales. Reading job adverts I definitely have a number of transferable skills that can be applied.

What would I need to do in order to make the career change? Would I need to get a masters degree or would I be able to sell myself into roles such as BD or Relationship Management or other roles I've not yet read about?

My ultimate goal is to build my own portfolio of properties and the career change is there to get me into the world of real estate and learn the industry. The financial reward is certainly high on the list and ill be honest when I say I am chasing money at the moment with my primary location being Dubai.

Has anyone made a success transition from a completely un-related field into real estate? And if so how did you go about doing it?

Thanks Redditors your help is always appreciated!

TP!
[{"id": "fkkdq3c", "text": "I think if you have transferable skills you should be fine.  Maybe work on some RE financial modeling in excel.  Go check out the RE forums on [wallstreetoasis.com](https://wallstreetoasis.com) \\- there's  tons of information and helpful people over there.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "fkkgttw", "text": "If you want to do development or investments I think you would almost definitely need to go do a master's in real estate or an MBA to rebrand yourself. You might be able to network your way in of you've got any contacts in the industry though.\n\nOn the brokerage side you might have a little more luck with your biz dev background, the sales skills are more applicable there (not that they aren't on the buy side, just that the buy side likely won't hire purely based on those).\n\nIf you don't want to pay for more education, I'd target an investment sales or leasing role at a brokerage, do that for a few years to build your network, then try to use connections to switch to the buy side/development.", "replies": [{"id": "fsk83a0", "text": "Second this. The degree will open recruiting doors from that institution. You will be viewed more as a recent grad rather than someone with transferable skills but no real experience.", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}]