Real estate development has always required niche knowledge of specific components of the business, whether financing or design or navigating government, and developers have hired graduates with those specialties in mind.
But to stand out today, new college graduates — who are facing the highest unemployment rate in a decade — need to be able to do everything, including incorporating artificial intelligence into their workloads, developers said at Bisnow and the New York University Schack Institute of Real Estate’s development conference last week.​