Real Estate Capital: Diversity in RE Finance, feat. Jim Blakemore
Pinning down the extent of the diversity problem in Europe’s real estate finance industry is difficult.
As a subset of the property sector, debt professionals are scattered across banks, insurance companies, investment management firms and consultancies. Specific data on the composition of Europe’s property finance workforce is just not available.
But data are emerging on the scale of the problem across the wider real estate sector. A September report by UK cross-industry organisation the Bridge Group showed that white men occupy 64 percent of senior positions in the country’s larger property companies.
