Real Estate Private Equity Interview Prep

4 weeks to REPE interview-ready. From scratch.

Train with the same materials candidates use to land offers at the world's leading real estate private equity firms. Built by REPE insiders. Authentic material from real recruiting processes only.

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Why insidersREPE works where others fail

You Only Get One Shot at the Offer.

The strongest candidates still fall short. Not for lack of talent, but because they’ve never seen what these funds actually put in front of them.

The gap isn’t your skill. It’s your prep.

Every real estate program you’d naturally reach for was built by finance generalists and deliberately simplifies its models. That’s the right call for IB recruiting. It’s the wrong call for a 4-hour Blackstone REPE test.

Candidates walk in technically literate but format-blind. They’ve never had to model a 100+ tenant rent roll, multi-tier waterfalls, construction draws, or multi-asset consolidations under a live clock. By the time they realize the model in front of them is nothing like what they practiced, it’s too late.

insidersREPE trains you on the actual format, at the actual complexity, built by professionals currently inside these funds.

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What's included

Everything You Need to Win the Offer

✔︎

14 authentic case studies from real REPE processes, including 7 with full step-by-step walkthroughs and 7 raw cases for advanced reps

10+ hours of video walkthroughs by active REPE professionals, building models from scratch exactly as done in interviews

77-page insider interview guide with actual interview questions asked at Blackstone, Apollo, Brookfield, and others

Full supporting materials, exactly as candidates receive them: rent rolls, broker brochures, industry reports, comparables, and Excel templates

The only 2-day take-home case study available in any prep program

Modeling exercises library and deal discussion frameworks: corporate LBOs, construction loans, multi-tier waterfalls, plus how to walk through deals, the one skill that separates candidates who get offers

AI Interview Simulator: unlimited mock interviews across four modes, graded like the real thing with a hiring-committee scorecard that pinpoints your gaps and prescribes exactly what to fix

The full curriculum

14 Authentic Case Studies

From 45-minute hotel LBOs to 4-hour megafund portfolio tests, plus a 2-day take-home. Every case is an authentic test used by a real REPE fund, not a recreation.

Guided case studies 7 with full walkthroughs

Case Study 01

Multifamily Asset Acquisition

1 Hour

US Asset Manager

8 lessons

Case Study 02

Value-Add Office Acquisition

2 Hours

European Megafund

12 lessons

Case Study 03

Core+ Residential Portfolio Acquisition

90 Mins

US Megafund

9 lessons

Case Study 04

Resort Hotel Acquisition LBO

45 Mins

US Hotel REPE Fund

10 lessons

Case Study 05

Office Campus Acquisition/Lease‑Up

4 Hours

US Distressed Fund

19 lessons

Case Study 06

Hotel Acquisition and Repositioning

3 Hours

Case Study 07

Mixed-Use Portfolio Acquisition

23 lessons — free preview available

Bonus

Modeling Exercises Library

5 Exercises

Corporate LBOs

Cash Sweeps

Construction Loans

2 & 3-Tier Waterfalls

REPE Insider Interview Guide

77 Pages

General RE Investing

Technicals

Deal Discussions

Debt

Hotel Investments

Brainteasers

Behavioral

Actual interview questions asked at Blackstone, Apollo, Brookfield, etc

Raw case studies 7 under test conditions

Case Study 08

Multi-Tranche CRE Acquisition

Sovereign Wealth Fund

Case Study 09

Case Study 10

Hospitality Company Acquisition

US Credit Hedge Fund

Case Study 11

Opportunistic Office Acquisition

2 Days

Mid-Cap REPE Fund

Case Study 12

Case Study 13

3.5 Hours

Case Study 14

Multifamily Acquisition

US Luxury Developer

+ Full supporting materials

Rent rolls, brochures, reports, comparables, templates

Results

Results Speak for Themselves

"The Mixed-Use Portfolio Acquisition case study was very similar to what Brookfield gave me in my modeling round. Having worked through the model beforehand gave me the confidence to walk them through my assumptions without hesitation."

IB Senior Analyst

Offer at Brookfield

"The full chapter on hospitality investments, combined with three authentic hotel acquisition case studies, was a major differentiator for me. I was targeting hospitality-focused REPE firms, and I walked into my interviews far better prepared than the other candidates."

M&A Analyst

Offer at KSL Capital Partners

"I went into the firm’s insight day already understanding the asset class and knowing how to work the case study. Having gone through real rent rolls, broker brochures, and other supporting documents in the program, I was comfortable with material everyone else was seeing for the first time. That edge is exactly what landed me the acquisitions grad role I believe."

Graduate

Offer at Tristan Capital Partners

"My background was generalist M&A, so I had almost no real estate modeling experience going in. The step-by-step walkthroughs and detailed comments made it possible to build institutional-quality models in just three weeks."

Offer at Blackstone

"Other programs I prepped with stuck to plain-vanilla acquisitions. This one threw development optionality, complex lease-up scenarios, and curveballs I actually got hit with in interviews."

REIB Associate

Offer at KKR

University partnerships

Trusted by student societies at leading universities.

We are proud to partner with finance and real estate societies at the following universities:

• Harvard Business School
• Wharton, University of Pennsylvania
• Duke University
• University of Michigan
• UCLA University of California, Los Angeles
• Northwestern University
• University of Toronto
• Queen's University
• Concordia University
• London School of Economics
• University College London
• University of Warwick
• University of St Andrews
• University of Manchester

Partnerships are with student-run finance and real estate societies at these universities. Further partnerships in North America and Europe will be announced in the coming weeks.

Who we are

Built by people who sit on the other side of the table.

insidersREPE is built and run by a team of investment professionals currently working at some of the world's largest REPE firms, investment banks and hedge funds.

The team, combined

30+ years

Combined experience in real estate private equity and investment banking

$10bn+

Combined deal value worked on

In the industry

Currently working at some of the world's largest REPE firms, investment banks and hedge funds

Fares S.

Co-founder

Fares has extensive finance experience in both New York and London. He started his career at Barclays Investment Bank in the Real Estate M&A team, followed by hospitality private equity at KSL Capital Partners (KKR spin-off, $26bn AUM, focused on the travel, consumer, leisure and hospitality segments) and real estate private equity at Aermont Capital (spin-off of Perella Weinberg's real estate private equity business, $24bn AUM). He now works at one of the largest private family offices in the world on its real estate investments globally.

One program. Everything included.

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The upside

$350k

Total comp for a first-year associate at a top REPE fund

233.3×

ROI

The cost of waiting

$30k

/ month

Comp lost for every month the offer is delayed

Every month you delay securing an offer costs you $30,000 in compensation. The program costs less than two days of it.

The Complete Program

Lifetime access

Every authentic case study, every walkthrough, the Insider Interview Guide, and 12 months of the AI Interview Simulator. One payment.

$1,500

One-time payment · Lifetime access to course materials · 12 months of Simulator access

7 authentic case studies with full step-by-step walkthroughs

7 raw authentic case studies from hedge funds, sovereign wealth funds, asset managers, and REPE firms, for test conditions

10+ hours of video walkthroughs by active REPE professionals

77-page interview guide with actual interview questions

Modeling exercises library and deal discussion frameworks

Full supporting materials — rent rolls, broker brochures, industry reports, comparables, Excel templates

Includes the only 2-day take-home format case study available in any prep program

AI Interview Simulator — unlimited interviews across four modes, 12 months of access

AI-Powered

AI Interview Simulator — 12 months included

A live REPE interviewer trained on our proprietary question bank. Unlimited interviews across four modes — Technical Round, Deal Debrief, Modeling Test Defense, and Hospitality Specialist — with chained follow-ups, megafund pressure, and a hiring-committee scorecard after every session that pinpoints your gaps and prescribes exactly what to fix.

Get The Complete Program

1:1 Insider Coaching

By application · Limited to 4 new candidates a month

Our most selective offering. A four-week private program: weekly one-to-one sessions with the people who sit on the other side of the table. Includes the Complete Program.

Weekly 1:1 sessions, built around your objectives and recruiting timeline

CV and LinkedIn profile review

Positioning and recruiting-strategy implementation

Managing headhunters, the gatekeepers of most processes

Mock interviews (technical and fit) and deal discussions

Securing an internship, and converting it into a full-time offer

The Complete Program included, with 12 months of the Simulator

We take on four new candidates a month and confirm places only where the fit is right.

30

30-day guarantee.

Join, then do the work: build three case studies including Case Study 07 and send us your Excel workings, read the Insider Interview Guide, and complete two rounds on the AI Interview Simulator. If, within 30 days, you do not feel materially better prepared for a REPE modeling test and interview, email us and we refund the program in full.

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Real Megafund Test

Same structure, complexity, and time pressure used at top-tier REPE funds to screen candidates.

Multi-Asset Portfolio Model

A mixed-use portfolio consolidated into a single model — 100+ tenant rent roll, cash flows built monthly and rolled to quarterly and annual. The hardest format you'll face.

Full Formulas & Comments

Every cell explained in a step-by-step walkthrough — see exactly how a REPE professional builds the model from scratch.

4-Hour Timed Test

Practice under real conditions. This isn't a simplified teaching exercise — it's the actual test.

Deal Discussion Chapter (Bonus)

A free chapter from the Interview Guide on walking through deals — the #1 skill that separates offers from rejections.

Free AI Interview Round (Bonus)

Ten real technical questions from the AI Interview Simulator, graded like the real thing, ending with a scorecard that pinpoints exactly where you'd fall short in the room.

Free Starter Pack

4-Hour US Megafund Case Study

Tenant-level operating model and NOI build

Insider Interview Guide chapter

Deal discussions, from the 77-page guide

AI Interview Simulator round

10 questions, graded, with a written scorecard

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FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Most programs teach generic real estate modeling on simplified, made-up cases. We train you on the actual modeling tests top funds use to screen candidates, keeping the same structure, time pressure and curveballs you'll face in the room. Every model is built and walked through by professionals currently working at top REPE funds, not academics or general finance practitioners. And we're the only program where you can rehearse the interview itself: the first and only AI interview simulator built for REPE, with unlimited graded mock interviews.

Yes. Each case study is a real modeling test used by a top REPE fund to screen candidates. The structure, difficulty and time limits are untouched, which is why members tell us their live tests felt almost identical to what they'd already practiced.

A live REPE interviewer built on our proprietary question bank, and the first AI interview simulator built specifically for real estate private equity. It runs four interview modes (Technical Round, Deal Debrief, Modeling Test Defense and Hospitality Specialist), drills you with chained follow-ups, and ends every session with a hiring-committee scorecard that pinpoints exactly what to fix. It is included with The Complete Program for 12 months of unlimited use, and you can try a free ten-question round through the Free Starter Pack above.

Yes. Every model is built from a blank sheet with step-by-step video and detailed in-cell comments, so you can follow even if you've never built a real estate model. Members have come from IB, M&A, corporate PE, consulting, university and graduate programs with little real-estate experience and built institutional-quality models within four weeks. That said, this isn't a casual intro course. It's built for serious candidates targeting top REPE roles, and it assumes you'll put in the reps.

The program is built to take you from basic finance and Excel to interview-ready in four weeks alongside a full-time job: roughly one guided case study every three to four days, with the Simulator in between. You don't need to finish everything to feel the difference. After your first two or three case studies you'll handle a modeling test and a deal discussion with real confidence. Access to the course materials is for life, so you can go deep once, then refresh fast the night before any interview.

That's the best time to start. The candidates who win offers aren't cramming the week before. They built the muscle months earlier. With lifetime access, you prepare at your own pace now and have everything ready the moment recruiting opens. When the test lands in your inbox, you'll have already done it.

Absolutely. Download the Free Starter Pack: an authentic 4-hour modeling test from a US megafund, with a detailed walkthrough of the tenant-level operating-model build. Also included: a free chapter from the Insider Interview Guide and a free round on the AI Interview Simulator, all at no cost. It's the same quality as everything inside the program.

Do the work in your first 30 days (build three case studies including Case Study 07 and send us your Excel workings, read the Insider Interview Guide, and complete two rounds on the AI Interview Simulator) and if you don't feel materially better prepared for a REPE modeling test and interview, email us for a full refund.

The moment you purchase, you'll get login details to our secure platform with instant access to every case study, video and guide. No waiting, no shipping. You can start within minutes; the course materials never expire and your Simulator access runs for 12 months.

A team of investment professionals currently working at some of the world's largest REPE firms, investment banks and hedge funds. Every case study is an authentic test from a real recruiting process, and every walkthrough is recorded by people who give these interviews today.

Yes, by application. 1:1 Insider Coaching is a four-week private program: weekly one-to-one sessions, CV and LinkedIn review, recruiting strategy, headhunter management, mock interviews and deal discussions, with The Complete Program included. We take on four new candidates a month, and places are confirmed only where the fit is right. Book a free 30-minute introductory call from the pricing section above.

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