Not A Good Place to be a Real Estate Manager - Real Estate Manager CBRE Employee Review

2.0
Apr 21, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Stable employer with salary and compensation structures that are market competitive. The human resources platform that is in place generally ensures employees are treated fairly.

Cons

Real estate managers spend the majority of their time supporting the large P2P platform that has been put in place to ensure that all management functions are completely transparent to upper management. That sounds good in theory, what it translates into in reality is an inordinate amount of time spent managing the platform. Additionally, since the Accounting Department is now a profit center they don't staff to do many basic real estate accounting functions any longer. This means the REM's spend much of their time doing accounting, generally not why they chose Commercial Real Estate. Combine all of this with the focus on profitability, and you can see that actually visiting and improving the real estate becomes secondary.

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5.0
Jun 22, 2026
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Pros

The company has a great mentor program. You will meet colleagues who do amazing things like write books, receive leadership awards, and write checks to nonprofits that really need the help.

Cons

I really have no complaints. I am still in contact with many of my colleagues there.

1.0
Jun 26, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Honestly? Not much. The vision insurance was decent, I guess. Truthfully though, there wasn't much.

Cons

Management's refusal to allow employees freedom. I routinely got praise from the client and hit the maximum score on my goals. If things weren't done "by the book", they were wrong. The health insurance was awful. Going to self-employment, one of the things that you hear is that you're going to pay a lot for health insurance. However, I'm actually paying LESS than when I worked for CBRE. When you work for CBRE, don't consider job security something that you're going to have. I saw two employees with 15+ years for the company get laid off, with zero severance and no option to transfer elsewhere, unless they wanted to uproot their families and move states for more work and a pay cut. This is the worst company that I've ever had the displeasure to work for. If you have literally any other option of employment, please consider doing that.

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