How to answer: "Why commercial real estate?" in an interview

This question enables the interviewer to understand what motivates you, and gives you the opportunity to communicate your specific reasons for pursuing this particular profession. It also gives the interviewer a good initial baseline of your commercial real estate knowledge.

This question is not asking you for your own personal definition of commercial real estate, but rather why you as a professional are enthusiastic about the work.

Here are some useful tips on how to answer this question:

• Go into your personal motivations for wanting to be in the commercial real estate business, you may want to include anecdotes from your career or even prior to your career, that highlight these motivations

• Your knowledge of what this specific commercial real estate role is plausibly going to be like

• Your knowledge of the company you are interviewing with and how your goals and values align

• Most importantly, describe why you want to work for this particular company and how you will make a difference if employed there