What sets Harrison Street apart
Harrison Street is a specialist alternative real-assets manager running roughly $108 billion in AUM, with its book concentrated in senior housing, student housing, healthcare delivery, life sciences, storage, and digital infrastructure – not the traditional office, retail, or industrial sectors that anchor generalist real-estate firms.
Founded in Chicago in 2005 and 75% owned by Colliers International since 2018, the firm operates 600+ employees across 19 global offices and is cited on Wikipedia as a top-five US senior-housing owner as of 2024. For an early-career applicant, this is a focused-not-broad mandate: roles cluster in the Chicago HQ and concentrate in a narrow sector set most generalist managers do not cover, so an applicant choosing Harrison Street is trading the cross-sector rotation breadth of a diversified real-estate house for depth in alternative real assets.