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NEW YORK CITY TREK

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Students travel to New York City for a full day of touring real estate companies and projects. Hosted by various alumni, students get an inside look into day to day experiences of real estate professionals. Past hosts have included S&P Global, PGIM Real Estate, Tishman Speyer, Pearson Partners, PGIM, Blackstone and more. 

GREATER PHILADELPHIA TREKS

The DiLella Center for Real Estate takes students to local downtown Philadelphia and the suburbs to tour current projects. Past Philadelphia tours have included the FMC Tower with Brandywine Realty Trust and 1919 Market with LCOR. In the suburbs, students have toured Ellis Preserve in Newtown Square and Sanatoga Greene, among others. 

BOSTON TREK

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Real estate students travel to Boston for an overnight two-day trek! In the past, students have visited offices and toured properties of AEW Capital Management, Ares Management, Wells Fargo, Oxford Properties, 128 CRE and WS Development.  

WASHINGTON, DC TREK

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Real estate students spend a full day in Washington, DC touring current projects, which in the past, have included the new headquarters of Amazon HQ2, Capital One and The Boro. Students have met with top executives from companies including Capital One, Lerner, JLL, Donatelli Development, HITT Contracting, Bonaventure and The Meridian Group. 

    

Competitions

ICSC AND UNC RETAIL CASE COMPETITION


The Leonard W. Wood Center for Real Estate Studies at UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School was asked to partner with the ICSC Foundation in 2023 to co-host the Retail Real Estate Case Competition at ICSC Las Vegas. This invitation-only case competition is held annually during ICSC Las Vegas. Teams are made up of up to four undergraduate students from real estate programs across the U.S. and Canada. Students are given five days to tackle the case and prepare their presentation before traveling to Las Vegas to present to an esteemed panel of real estate judges and compete for $20,000 in prize money. 

MULROY REAL ESTATE CHALLENGE


The Mulroy Real Estate Challenge is a national real estate development case competition for students from the top undergraduate real estate programs. This Villanova School of Business hosted case competition will gather 16 teams comprised of the next generation of real estate leaders together with judges and sponsors representing leading real estate firms. The case will be a development project which incorporates all aspects of development from financing to design. 

KISLAK REAL ESTATE INSTITUTE COMPETITION


Each year, Monmouth University hosts the Kislak Real Estate Institute Competition for undergraduate students to compete for $12,500 worth of prizes. 

    

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Students will hear from a panel of young alumni, a keynote speaker, and sit with professionals over dinner to learn about various career paths in the commercial real estate industry.

VSB's DiLella Center for Real Estate presents PwC Emerging Trends Presentation on Tuesday, November 19th at 5:15PM! Bill Staffieri and Rick Ruiz ’06 VSB, PwC Real Estate Partners from NY, will be on campus to present the 2025 PwC Emerging Trends report (to be released in November). Students on campus are invited to learn about the top real estate industry trends for 2025, based on interviews with senior property investment professionals and regional surveys conducted jointly by PwC and the Urban Land Institute.