Commercial Real Estate Recruiters in NYC
In New York, the right leader is usually already in your market. We find the one built for your portfolio.
Same title. Different job.
Private fund manager
Head of Asset Management
- Owns
- Business plans across a fund's holdings
- Measured on
- Fund returns and investor reporting
- Built through
- Investment management platforms
- Works with
- The investment committee and limited partners
Vertically integrated operator
Head of Asset Management
- Owns
- Assets the firm also leases and manages
- Measured on
- NOI and operating performance
- Built through
- Owner-operator platforms
- Works with
- Leasing, property management, and construction teams
Who we search for in New York.
Inside a search.
Search brief
Chief Financial Officer · Hybrid, Dallas
- First-year outcome
- Close the next fund raise
- Reports to
- President
- Base
- $250,000 to $300,000
- Must have
- Fund accounting depth
Recent results.
All case studiesA role open for months, filled inside a 30-day deadline.
- 3
- days to a first slate
- 4 of 4
- finalists sourced by us
- 30
- days to an accepted offer
A VP of Lease Administration, recruited from outside the usual talent pool.
Read the case study →The senior seats we know best.
Chief Financial Officer
Fund mechanics, audit, and capital events.
Read the hiring guide →Chief Operating Officer
Operating leadership at the CEO’s right hand.
Read the hiring guide →President
Second-in-command and successor seats.
Read the hiring guide →Chief Investment Officer
Investment thesis, capital allocation, investor relations.
Read the hiring guide →VP of Acquisitions
Deal-end leadership across owner and operator platforms.
Read the hiring guide →Head of Asset Management
Returns protection across the hold and through cycles.
Read the hiring guide →Head of Development
Ground-up across asset classes and boroughs.
Read the hiring guide →Head of Capital Markets
Debt, equity, and the lender relationships behind them.
Read the hiring guide →Director of Transaction Management
Corporate occupier portfolios for service providers.
Read the hiring guide →Chief People Officer
Talent strategy across investment and operating teams.
Read the hiring guide →General Counsel
Transactions, disputes, and corporate governance.
Read the hiring guide →Market Leader
Brokerage office and regional leadership.
Read the hiring guide →Read the full brief
Commercial real estate recruiters in New York.
When a New York commercial real estate firm needs to hire a leader, the search is rarely about filling a seat. It is about finding the person who can carry the mandate the business is built around. 24 Hour Search is a commercial real estate executive search and recruiting firm based in New York, working with owners, operators, and service providers to hire Director-through-C-suite talent across the five boroughs and the wider metro.
We work for the firms doing the hiring.
24 Hour Search is engaged by employers, not by candidates. Our clients are New York commercial real estate owners, developers, investment managers, brokerages, and the professional services firms that support them. When you bring us a search, you are the client, and the entire process is built around the hire your business needs to make.
That focus matters. A recruiter working both sides of the market serves two masters. We serve one. Every search is run for the firm paying for the outcome, with the discipline of a retained process.
Read how engagements are structured on The 24 Hour Search™ Way.
New York commercial real estate is its own market.
Senior commercial real estate leaders in New York sit inside firms with carry, deferred compensation, and live deal pipelines. Reaching them takes a recruiter who knows who runs which platform in New York, how owner-operator firms hire differently from institutional ones, and which moves are real opportunities.
It is also a market where the same title means different things from one firm to the next. A Head of Asset Management at a private fund manager carries a different mandate than the same title at a vertically integrated operator. We start every search by defining which version of the seat you are actually filling, then build the slate against that, not against a generic job description.
Retained methodology, paid when your hire signs.
You get the rigor of a retained search: a defined brief, direct outreach, structured assessment, and references taken seriously. By default you pay when your hire signs, which means we carry the risk of the outcome alongside you.
The firm has led more than 1,200 placements, and every engagement is run personally by people who have done the work on both sides of the hire.
See a record of recent searches.
New York is our base, not our limit.
This page focuses on New York because that is where the firm is based and where much of our commercial real estate work happens, but 24 Hour Search recruits nationwide, across commercial real estate, professional services, and growth-oriented owners and operators.
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You pay when your hire signs.
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