Career Strategy·June 5, 2026
Not All Your Numbers. The Right Ones.
Why the number that wins the offer is the one most relevant to this specific role, not the most impressive one in your career.
Kristin Taylor5 min read
BOMA New York
Leadership hiring for commercial real estate.
Paid on placement. Not on promise.
24 Hour Search recruits Director-through-C-suite leadership for building owners, operators, and CRE service providers. Every search is run personally, from brief to placement.
1,000+
Career placements led
Director–C-suite
Search seniority
Paid on placement
No upfront retainer
The Search
Every search starts with the business, not the job description.
Before we source a single candidate, we get clear on what the role needs to do, who it reports to, what success looks like at 12 months, and what the team actually needs next. That brief shapes everything downstream.
We recruit through direct outreach and our network across commercial real estate. Every engagement is run personally with the full structure described on How We Engage.
Roles We Recruit
Property management, asset management, and the executive level.
- Regional Property Manager
- VP of Property Management
- Director of Property Management
- Head of Asset Management
- Director of Operations
- COO
- Executive Managing Director
- Market Leader
- CFO
- President
- CHRO
- General Counsel
The Work
Case Study
Three days to a slate. Thirty days to a hire.
A national CRE firm. A tight market. Multiple agencies had failed. We delivered a four-person slate in three days and a placed hire in thirty.
Read the full storyCase Study
The candidate who was not looking.
A VP search that became a Senior Vice President role, defined by the conversation, not the original job description.
Read the full storyRecognition
- GlobeSt Women of Influence2025
- Crain's New York Notable HR Leader2022
- TopRecruiter Top 20 Agency Recruiters2024
In the Industry
- Panelist, BOMA New York IWD2026 on Accelerating Action in Commercial Real Estate
- Featured guest, BOMA New York Podcast
- Featured by BOMA New York, CoreNet Global, TALiNT Partners, and From Day One
The model
A category that did not exist.
Executive search has historically forced a choice. Retained firms deliver rigor and charge for it upfront. Contingent recruiters work on success terms and deliver volume. We built a third option: the rigor of retained search, on the terms of contingent. Paid on placement, not on promise.
Existing option A
Retained search
- $30–60k+ upfront engagement fee
- 90+ days exclusivity locked
- Three-installment fee structure
- High commitment before first slate
- The standard for C-suite at large firms
Existing option B
Contingent recruiting
- No fee until placement
- No exclusivity
- Resume volume over assessment
- Limited market mapping
- The standard for transactional hiring
The third option
24 Hour Search™
- No fee until placement
- Optional exclusivity, never required
- Retained methodology: intake, market mapping, written assessment, slate of 4–6, weekly updates
- Principal-led every engagement
- The standard for senior hires where the work has to be rigorous and the risk has to sit with us
The outcome of retained. The terms of contingent.
Fee Comparison
See what a search costs, before you commit to one.
Enter the role's base salary and bonus target. The calculator shows the real difference between a retained firm and 24 Hour Search, including how much you commit before a single candidate is placed.
The math
What you commit before the candidate signs.
Set the base salary for the role and the bonus target. We will show you what each model asks you to pay, and when.
$250,000
$150,000$600,000
25%
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Bonus brings total cash comp to $312,500.
Retained search
30% of first-year cash compensation
Base plus bonus, the industry-standard scope. Billed in three installments.
- Total fee if the search closes
- $93,750
- Due at engagementFirst installment
- $31,250
- Committed before the candidate signsFirst two installments, invoiced at engagement and slate
- $62,500
24 Hour Search
25% of first-year base salary
Invoiced when the candidate signs. No engagement retainer.
- Total fee if the search closes
- $62,500
- Due at engagementNothing owed
- $0
- Committed before the candidate signsThe fee is invoiced at the signed offer
- $0
At this compensation, retained asks for $62,500 before the candidate signs. We ask for nothing until they do.
Insights
Notes from the practice.
Writing on executive search, leadership hiring, and the work of moving senior careers forward.
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not the title.
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