Real Estate
Recruitment for the real estate sector.
Capital, assets, development, operations and transformation each need different personalities. The title alone is not enough — the fit between strategy, portfolio and person decides.
Six fields plus cross-functional
Where real estate roles genuinely differ.
Not a numbered process — six fields in which I fill roles, plus the commercial cross-functional layer.
Investment & Transactions
Allocating capital, acquiring, disposing — personalities who think in deals.
Asset & Portfolio Management
Managing assets, growing value, leading tenants — with an eye on the house's strategy.
Development & Construction
Planning, steering and taking responsibility for projects — anchored to investment or asset-holding firms.
Property & Facility Management
Organising operations, maintaining quality, controlling cost — close to the asset.
Corporate Real Estate
Property from a corporate perspective: portfolio, workplace, location strategy.
ESG & Sustainability
Regulation, reporting, transformation — as a standalone role or a cross-cutting one.
- Cross-functional · Cross-functional: Finance, Accounting, Controlling and commercial leadership — where the real estate business connects with the commercial structure.
Search situations
When real estate firms bring me in.
- Building or repositioning an investment platform
- Handover in asset management
- Commercial leadership in development
- An ESG / transformation role with a genuine mandate
- Building corporate real estate in growing companies
Motivations to move
Why candidates really change roles.
- Strategy & mandate
- What is being invested in, held or developed — and with what degree of freedom.
- Portfolio type
- Segment, region, risk/return profile, maturity of the portfolio.
- Decision-making scope
- Direct access to capital and owner decisions — or reporting upward.
- Capital & ownership environment
- Institutional, family office, entrepreneurial, listed.
- Team & culture
- Leadership style, collaboration across segments, handling of conflict.
- Location & flexibility
- On-site presence, travel share, location commitment, remote share.
Executive Search
For leadership seats, platform builds and successions where a confidential, targeted search is the only realistic route to the right person.
Professional Recruitment
For qualified specialist roles across investment, asset management, development and property — filled through a structured, well-targeted process.
Questions
Frequently asked questions from the real estate market.
Let's talk about the role.