Commercial Real Estate Recruiters in NYC
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, retained by 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 retained 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 and a structure described on How We Engage.
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New York commercial real estate is its own market.
The strongest commercial real estate leaders in New York are almost never on the market. They are inside firms with carry, deferred compensation, and live deal pipelines, and they do not answer job postings. Reaching them takes a recruiter who knows the New York landscape: who runs which platform, how owner- operator firms hire differently than institutional ones, and which moves are real opportunities rather than lateral noise.
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.
Leadership across the CRE org chart.
We recruit Director-through-C-suite leaders for New York commercial real estate firms across investment, operations, development, capital, transactions, and corporate functions.
Retained methodology. No retainer.
You get the rigor of a retained search: a defined brief, direct outreach to passive candidates, structured assessment, and references taken seriously. What you do not get is a large upfront retainer. We are paid on placement, which means we carry the risk of the outcome alongside you.
The firm has led more than a thousand career placements, and every engagement is run personally by people who have done the work on both sides of the hire. You can read more on The 24 Hour Search Way or 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. Explore our practice across Commercial Real Estate, Professional Services, and Growth-Oriented Owners & Operators, or meet the team behind the search.
Start with the outcome,
not the title.
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