Avison Young

Avison Young UK runs a two-year Real Estate Graduate Programme and a separate Apprenticeship Scheme, both built around a funded professional qualification rather than a fixed-term internship:

• Graduate Programme: two years, with APC fees and RICS, MRTPI or RTPI subscriptions paid by the firm, a dedicated APC counsellor, and tracks across commercial surveying, building surveying, and planning and development surveying
• Apprenticeship Scheme: an "earn while you learn" pathway combining formal study with on-the-job client exposure toward a recognised qualification, run alongside the graduate route

The Graduate Programme runs two years to a fully funded chartered qualification, longer than a standard one-year graduate scheme, so it is worth confirming upfront whether a peer firm's offer includes the same firm-funded APC route or leaves qualification costs to the candidate.

Avison Young is privately owned through a principal-ownership model: senior professionals hold direct equity stakes in the firm rather than the firm answering to public shareholders, per its own company profile. It reaffirmed that structure in a March 2024 recapitalization that cut liabilities by more than half; independent trade-press coverage of the deal quotes CEO Mark Rose confirming principals kept a "substantial majority of equity ownership." That sets it apart from publicly traded peers such as CBRE, JLL and Cushman & Wakefield. Founded in 1978 and now operating 100+ offices worldwide, it is a structure where compensation and career progression in a given office tie more directly to that office's own performance and its principals' ownership stake than at a shareholder-owned competitor.

Yes. Avison Young has 7 student and graduate roles open right now, in graduate jobs and apprenticeships.

Avison Young opened its graduate jobs on 24 Jun 2026 and its apprenticeships in Apr 2026, still listed today. Dates are when the firm posted each programme, or when we first saw it on the firm's careers site.

Avison Young has student and graduate roles open in Chicago, Dublin, Glasgow, London, Manchester, New York and Toronto.

Applications to Avison Young go through the firm's own careers site, one application per posting, each expecting a CV and cover letter written for that role.