The Practicum is a Summer-term two-month field course that places MRE students within a United States or international real estate organization to participate in an ongoing real estate project that advances beneficial social and environmental outcomes. The MRE program arranges placements based on the interests of each student and each Practicum organization. Students take the Practicum Prep Seminar led by MRE faculty during Fall and Spring terms at the GSD. During the summer Practicum, students are guided by an employee of the Practicum organization and meet remotely from time to time with Practicum faculty. Students return to the GSD for several days at the end of the Summer term during which they discuss and compare their Practicum experiences.

Here is a list of the 2026 Practicum organizations:

• Acrophyte Hospitality Trust, Dallas, Texas
• Arctaris Impact Investors, Boston, Massachusetts
• Benenson Capital Partners, LLC, New York, New York
• Boston Properties (BXP), Boston, Massachusetts
• Cadillac Fairview, Toronto, Canada
• City of Boston Planning Department, Boston, Massachusetts
• Cromwell Property Group, Brisbane and Sydney, Australia
• Greystar, Boston, Massachusetts and New York, New York
• HALL Group, Dallas, Texas
• Harvard Allston Land Company, Boston, Massachusetts
• Hudson Square Properties, a Joint Venture between Trinity Church, Norges and Hines, New York, New York
• HYM Investment Group, Boston, Massachusetts
• Ivory Innovations, Salt Lake City, Utah
• Jonathan Rose Companies, New York, New York
• Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL), San Diego, California
• Jones Street Investment Partners, Boston, Massachusetts
• Leggat McCall Properties, Boston, Massachusetts
• Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, Boston, Massachusetts
• MSquared, New York, New York
• Nan Fung Group and D.H. Chen Foundation, Hong Kong SAR
• Palladius Capital Management, Austin, Texas
• Portman Holdings, Atlanta, Georgia
• Primestor, Los Angeles, California
• RED Company, Rotterdam, Netherlands
• RJ Development + Advisors, New Haven, Connecticut
• Seaport Entertainment Group, New York, New York
• SingHaiyi, Singapore
• Tishman Speyer, New York, New York
• WinnDevelopment, Boston, Massachusetts and New York, New York