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.
