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Qualified Fields of Commercial Real Estate

CREW Network is the premier multi-disciplinary network for commercial real estate industry professionals

Membership

General Considerations

The following four points are general considerations that should frame or ground the review of an application for CREW Network membership.

  1. Commercial real estate (CRE) refers to any real estate used exclusively for business purposes. It is a kind of investment (building or land) intended to generate a profit, either from capital gains or rental income as a place for organizations to do business.

  2. As an industry, CRE encompasses professionals from across multiple disciplines, who each provide their own area of expertise. 

  3. The below list of CRE fields was developed to help define the range of professionals within the CRE industry who are eligible for membership in CREW. When determining eligibility of an individual for membership using the below descriptions, and to fulfill CREW’s primary function as a business network for CRE professionals, one must assume the majority of an individuals’ responsibilities within their respective field lie within the CRE industry. The result of this screening process is an established network of CRE professionals who each have personal expertise in one or more of these aspects of the industry and are ready to provide the insight, expertise, connections and/or business sought by their fellow members.

  4. When considering an application for membership it is important to keep in mind that there is a difference between a CRE professional that can become a full member of CREW and an affiliate or vendor member that solely provides goods and services to CRE professionals. To understand the difference between a vendor or affiliate member and someone who would qualify as a full member of CREW one must look at all applications with the following question in mind:  Is the applicant’s field necessary to the transaction, design, development, construction, management, investment and/or functioning of CRE?  If the answer to this inquiry is “no”, it is likely, though not an absolute, that the applicant’s field relates to the sale or provision of a good or service that is not tied to, or necessary, for the commercial operation of CRE and, therefore, such applicant should be approved as an affiliate or vendor member.