Player guide
Career paths and crests
Every kind of building is a path you grow into: multifamily, industrial, retail, office. Work one hard and you climb from Bronze to Osmium, with a crest, a title and perks to show for it.
Updated October 20, 2026
How a path grows
Your rank is your career as a whole. A path is your name in one kind of building. You don't pick one: every path grows from what you do in it, and most players end up known for one or two. Path XP comes from:
- Closing a deal on that kind of building: 10 XP, plus 1 for every $500K of price (up to 20 more).
- Buying one: 15 XP.
- Business plans: 8 XP for each stage you finish, and 20 for the whole plan.
- Taking a building up a tier with upgrades, and the path's own signature moves (below).
Each item counts once, so path XP never goes down. Everyone starts every path at its opening level. The first time a path reaches Bronze, Career Paths opens on You, with a card for each path.
Bronze to Osmium
| Level | Crest | Path XP |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Opening | 0 |
| 2 | Bronze | 80 |
| 3 | Silver | 350 |
| 4 | Gold | 1,000 |
| 5 | Osmium | 2,200 |
Each level up gets its own page: the path's crest in its new metal, your new title, and what the level gives you. A focused player reaches Bronze in their main path in their first year and Osmium late in the career; a generalist may reach Gold in two paths and Osmium in none.
Titles and perks
Each level's perk applies to that kind of building only, and stacks with the ones before it.
The apartment empire
Multifamily
| Level | Title | Perk |
|---|---|---|
| Opening | Apartment Broker | Your path is open |
| Bronze | Multifamily Associate | Client offers on apartments +5%; apartment plans cost 10% less |
| Silver | Multifamily Specialist | Unit turns: renovate apartments for a rent premium |
| Gold | Multifamily Expert | Apartment running costs −5%; lease-ups 25% faster |
| Osmium | Apartment Mogul | Apartment values +5% |
Nemesis: Dana Whitlock of Whitlock Residential, who counts doors: a portfolio of apartments that grows every month. Out-own them.
The logistics king
Industrial
| Level | Title | Perk |
|---|---|---|
| Opening | Warehouse Broker | Your path is open |
| Bronze | Logistics Associate | Client offers on industrial +5%; industrial plans cost 10% less |
| Silver | Distribution Specialist | Big-box leases: one tenant fills a whole warehouse |
| Gold | Industrial Expert | 10-year leases add another 4% of value |
| Osmium | Logistics King | Industrial income +5% |
Nemesis: Gus Ferreira of Ferreira Logistics, who wants the big-box tenants you sign.
The center maker
Retail
| Level | Title | Perk |
|---|---|---|
| Opening | Retail Broker | Your path is open |
| Bronze | Center Associate | Client offers on retail +5%; retail sellers trust you +10 |
| Silver | Shopping Center Specialist | Recruit an anchor for your centers |
| Gold | Retail Expert | Anchored centers' rents +5%; anchor-loss hits halved |
| Osmium | Center Maker | Retail rents +5% |
Nemesis: Celeste Moreau of Moreau Centers, who courts the anchor tenants in your centers. Keep them all.
The contrarian
Office
| Level | Title | Perk |
|---|---|---|
| Opening | Office Broker | Your path is open |
| Bronze | Office Associate | Office purchase offers land 8% more often |
| Silver | Office Specialist | Tenant improvement packages fill your floors |
| Gold | Office Expert | Office-to-residential conversion |
| Osmium | Skyline Contrarian | Office values +8% once leased up |
Nemesis: Victor Hale of Hale Tower Partners, who dumps office buildings cheap when the market is down.
Signature moves
At Silver, each path gets a move only specialists make, offered as a card on one of your buildings of that kind: unit turns on apartments, big-box leases in a warehouse, an anchor tenant for a retail center, a tenant improvement package for office floors. Higher up come 10-year industrial leases and office-to-residential conversions. Each one pays path XP too.
Buildings for specialists
Each path has its own niche buildings, 96 in all across the four: garden apartments and student housing, last-mile depots, and more. A path's niche buildings start coming onto the Market once that path reaches Bronze. At Osmium, the path's two flagship buildings come up for sale, the ones only a master of that path ever gets to buy.
Your nemesis
Separate from the district rivals, each path has a specialist rival who notices you once your path reaches Bronze. About once a year they snipe the best listing of their kind before you can, and each has a trophy for beating them. They're named in the month-end reveal when they first notice you, and in the news when they move.
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