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Cushman & Wakefield interview questions

52 questions researched across 3 Cushman & Wakefield seats in Leasing & Brokerage, Valuation & Advisory, Property Management. Below are 12 of them.

Seats we researched

  • Brokerage InternLeasing & Brokerage · intern · 20 min
  • Valuation InternValuation & Advisory · intern · 20 min
  • Property Management InternProperty Management · intern · 20 min

12 Cushman & Wakefield interview questions

  1. Tell me about a difficult stakeholder and how you handled the situation.

  2. Had you heard of Cushman & Wakefield before you applied for this position? What did you know about us?

  3. Why real estate?

  4. How do you work with a team?

  5. How would you describe your work style?

  6. Tell me about a time you worked in a fast-paced environment.

  7. How would you value a commercial real-estate asset? Explain your data, methods, and key assumptions.

  8. Evaluate whether a real-estate project near a new transit line is attractive. Explain the data you would use.

  9. What's your view on ESG in the commercial real estate market right now, and how does it show up when a tenant is choosing space?

  10. Why Cushman & Wakefield rather than JLL or CBRE?

  11. A broker says your value will kill the deal. What do you do?

  12. Pick comps for a last-generation office.

What a strong answer does

The questions above fall into 4 kinds. What a strong answer does differs by kind, not by question.

Behavioral7 of 12 above
Lead with the claim and context; isolate your personal action and decision; explain the trade-off; quantify the result; finish with what you learned and changed.
Technical2 of 12 above
State the intuition first; walk through the mechanics; make assumptions explicit; test a risk or edge case; connect the answer to the role.
Case2 of 12 above
Clarify the objective; build a mutually exclusive structure; prioritize the highest-value branch; analyze with evidence; synthesize a recommendation, risks, and next step.
Market1 of 12 above
State a view; support it with evidence and a catalyst; explain valuation or transmission; give the strongest countercase; name the risk that would change your mind.

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The rest of the bank — 52 in total — is asked by the interviewer during practice, so you meet them the way you would on the day rather than reading them first.

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How these questions were researched

Every question carries a provenance grade. Some were reported by candidates who sat the round, some come from the firm’s own published guidance or a source that trains for it, and the rest are written to match how this firm asks. Each seat is studied on its own — the round it actually runs, the order it runs it in, and what it is listening for. A Cushman & Wakefield round is not a generic behavioural screen, and practising one as the other is how people walk in unprepared.

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