Real Estate Analyst-Senior Living at Berkadia. Can someone explain what they do?
I currently work in consulting for a CPA firm. I am checking out this job which lines up with my experience but I have never considered a career in CRE outside of accounting. 

What does a Mortgage Banker vs Investment Sales do and which would be working with a real estate analyst?

What is the path of an analyst?

I am also confused by broker vs mortgage banker. Are they the same thing or does a mortgage banker do the underwriting and origination and a broker is more of a real estate agent shopping loans? 

Sorry for being naive but very curious about this industry.
[{"id": "iyftt6d", "text": " investment sales sells property. Mortgage broker places debt.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "iyfzs3v", "text": "Mortgage broker and banker are synonymous. Intermediary between borrower and capital provider (debt/equity). Investment sales broker is someone selling the real estate. Intermediary between seller and buyer. An analyst could work on investment sales side or mortgage banking side. Typically don\u2019t do both.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "iz0xngz", "text": "It sounds like you would be a credit analyst/underwriting analyst on the lending side. Basically doing all of the initial credit review, due diligence, and mortgage underwriting involved in closing deals for senior living facilities (assisted living, independent living, skilled nursing facility, etc). It would be a very interesting sector to get into right now because the seniors industry on a national level is still trying to recover from Covid.  Census numbers were demolished given the tendency of Covid to be more severe in the elderly. There are probably alot of facilities struggling to find workers/RNs.", "replies": [{"id": "iz18jxv", "text": "Yes so currently I work as a finance consultant for a cpa firm in the sector, so very familiar with it.\nAny insight into the career path of this job. Does it lend into cre mortgage banking? I don\u2019t know a lot about mortgage banking but I assume it\u2019s very lucrative if you get 1% of the financed amount on a deal?", "replies": [{"id": "iz1l4uu", "text": "It depends on the firm, but typically analysts can grow into either Underwriter or Originator/Banker. Best advice is to make friends with the current  originators and also become an analyst thay they can trust to size up deals and meet tight deadlines.", "replies": [], "depth": 3}, {"id": "iz3zb44", "text": "Berkadia is credit. Analyst you'll be underwriting deals not sourcing them. Credit analysts usually do not receive a % because you are risk management against production. You could probably switch to at some point production, being a credit analyst/Underwriter involves high volume of deals with lots of practice in the fundementals of real estate analysis. Good lenders make good money, but its eat what you kill. Its a more sales relationship managment type role. Berkadia isn't a bank, so it might be structured different than my experience, but I'd assume it's fundemntally the same. Analysts underwrite, lenders source deals.", "replies": [], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}]