Spotlight on acceleration: Property and Real Estate
A fresh approach
The solidity of any building is important, but very rarely can it remain the same indefinitely. Properties need to be renewed and updated to ensure they stand the test of time. That defines our approach to executive search and interim management in the property and real estate sector.
Too many organisations are firmly entrenched in their approach to talent, hiring only within their sector and missing out on a whole world of talent who could bring new ideas and perspectives. But if you always work in line with the status quo, you’ll never achieve anything different. We bring fresh thinking to the industry and challenge our clients’ briefs by targeting out-of-sector hires and assessing candidates for competencies that can underpin an organisation’s success, rather than focusing on like-for-like experience. This includes actively working with employers to support their DEI initiatives. That’s our approach – doing things differently and looking for talent in places other executive search companies won’t.
We keep you in the know
We have access to the best leaders for all manner of organisations, from newly acquired specialist workplace consultancies to PE-backed real estate investment businesses and listed services companies. But we know our job goes beyond supplying our clients with great leaders. There are many executive search experts out there who can do that. We use the depth of our expertise and the strength of our relationships with our network to keep clients ahead of market trends.
That kind of capability can only be built over time, as Kieran Dines, director for our property and real estate team, explained: “We’ve spent the last decade dedicating ourselves to our specialist markets,” he said, “which has allowed us to keep our clients at the leading edge of market trends and emerging opportunities.”
Always building
Property’s about the long term, and so are we. To ensure we can always supply our clients with the talent and expertise they need, we need to keep growing. That’s why we keep a close eye on what’s happening in the market and have dedicated ourselves to becoming specialists in hot, active and emerging subsectors such as build-to-rent (BTR), industrial and logistics, workplace consulting and sustainability. Our expertise also extends to regions where it has traditionally been difficult to find the right talent, such as DACH and Benelux, and we appointed three market-leading managing directors into service-focused PE portfolio companies and a leading global propco in H2 2022.
“As our clients have grown, we’ve grown with them,” said Dines. “As part of that evolution, we’ve worked with traditional outsourced services organisations to build in-house sustainability consulting practices, secured strategic business leaders in new regions such as DACH and Benelux and developed an enviable track record of placing subsector specialist real estate investment directors across industrial and logistics and BTR.”
If you’re looking for an outstanding leader to head up your property team, for your next leadership opportunity in the property and real estate sector or would like to talk to us about the current market, please get in touch with our team.