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B.Sc. (Real Estate) graduates are employed in both public and private sector organizations which own, develop, use or manage land and property. You could join them and be a part of the real estate business. Graduate are employed in the fields of real estate fund management (including REITs), real estate development and investment, urban planning, property valuation and corporate real estate management.

Career opportunities are also opened to real estate graduates in areas such as:

Valuation:

• Appraiser / Valuer - Professionally trained to estimate the quality, worth or value of property, especially in residential or commercial real estate markets.
• Auctioneer - Auctions property and land. A license is required for practice.

Development:

• Developer - A land developer builds homes, offices, hotels, factories, shopping centres and sells them through the developer's own sales organization or through local real estate brokerage firms.

Real Estate Management:

• Portfolio Manager- A portfolio manager sees to the over-all management, control and supervision of a number of investments (a portfolio) with the aim of maximizing the return and minimizing the risk.
• Real Estate Management Consultant / Advisor - Offers professional services to the client investment, design cost, contractual agreements and all other facets of dealing in land and property, locally and overseas.

Urban Planning:

• Planner - Plans and controls development of land, and the overall physical development of the country

Property / Facilities Management:

• Property Manager/ Estate Manager - Preserves the value of an investment property to generate income for its owners, through finding tenants, satisfying tenants, negotiating leases, making sure rents are in line with the market, and maintaining the physical property.

Real Estate graduates also diversify into other fields

• With the multi-disciplinary training, many Real Estate graduates have secured managerial positions in organizations in a broad range of fields, including banks, insurance companies, firms in the oil industry and manufacturing and training establishments.

Employers 

Statutory boards
Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS); Housing and Development Board (HDB); Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA); Central Provident Fund Board (CPF); JTC Corporation; Singapore Land Authority (SLA), etc

Property developers
CapitaLand Ltd, Far East Organisation, City Developments Ltd, Centrepoint Properties Ltd, Keppel Land International Ltd, etc

Real estate consultancy and management firms
Jones Lang Lasalle, Knight Frank Singapore, CB Richard Ellis Singapore, Colliers International (Singapore) Pte Ltd, Chesterton International Property Consultants Pte Ltd, Savills Singapore, etc

Banks and financial institutions
DBS, OCBC, UOB, Citibank, HSBC, UBS Warburg, etc

Fund and asset management companies
ING, AIG, Rodamco, A-REIT, Pacific Star Asset Management Pte Ltd, CapitaMall Trust Management Limited, CapitaCommercial Trust Management Limited, Suntec REIT, Mapletree Logistic Trust Management Ltd, etc

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