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Oryx Executive Search

Real Estate and Property Executive Search

Real estate executive search for investors, developers and asset managers. Clients include Urbanest, Strawberry Star and Igloo Regeneration.

Real Estate and Property Executive Search Recruiters

Oryx provides real estate executive search for investors and fund managers, developers, asset and property management platforms, and operational real estate including build to rent, student accommodation and mixed-use regeneration. Clients include Urbanest, Strawberry Star Group, Igloo Regeneration and Currie & Brown. Senior appointments in property are assessed on a specific record: capital raised and deployed, portfolio performance through a cycle, planning consents and development delivered, or an operational platform built and scaled. We define which of those matters most to a mandate before starting, then search against it across investment, development, asset management, finance and operational leadership. Coverage extends to offices, industrial and logistics, retail and leisure, residential development and housebuilding, healthcare and later living, hotels held as investments, and the debt, valuation and consultancy businesses that serve them.

Retained by investors, developers and operators who cannot afford a miss

  • Currie and Brown

    Currie & Brown is one of the world’s largest asset management and construction consultancies, with over 60 offices and more than 2,300 staff globally. As part of a leadership succession process Oryx successfully recruited a European COO and a Managing Director for their London & South East region. Both searches involved a comprehensive research exercise which targeted the UK and European Multi Disciplinary Engineering Consultancy sector. The European COO joined from Faithful & Gould. The regional MD joined from RLF.

  • Urbanest

    urbanest is London’s leading student accommodation provider with eight student properties located in the heart of central London Zone 1. As a result of growth in scale and responsibility urbanest asked Oryx to search for a new Estates Director to take responsibility for developing and delivering the Estates Strategy. A comprehensive piece of research across a range of property management and outsourced facilities services environments resulted in a successful hire who joins in September 2023.

  • Strawberry Star Group

    Strawberry Star Group is a specialist provider of property investment and property management services to local and international investors in the London market, including Capital, Acquisitions, Development, Homes, Sales, Lettings and Management. Over recent years the group has become a significant player in the London Real Estate market with over 2,000 properties in the pipeline and £1.4bn of AUM. Working with the Chairman Santhosh Gowda, Oryx recruited the Group CEO.

We fill a variety of roles across the real estate search sector

  • Managing Director
  • Development Director
  • Director of Planning
  • Managing Director, Build to Rent
  • Managing Director, Student Accommodation
  • Operations Director
  • Chief Financial Officer
  • Chief People Officer
  • Asset Management Director
  • Investment Director
  • Commercial Director
Two Oryx consultants reviewing a search together

Your bespoke real estate recruitment team

As a real estate headhunter, Oryx works retained and research-led, mapping investors, developers, operators and advisers directly rather than relying on a database. Our in-house research team establishes who has actually done the relevant work, and our consultants approach them confidentially, in person, with a considered case for the move. That is how we reach people mid-fund or mid-development who are not in the market. The firm has been operating this way since 1988 and is employee-owned, with consultants who stay a decade or more and build long-term client relationships as a result. Each assignment provides weekly auditable updates and a vetted shortlist within eight weeks, with psychometric profiling available for board appointments. Our real estate recruiters also deliver talent mapping and salary benchmarking for organisations entering a new sector or geography. Because many property appointments are made in anticipation of a fund launch, a portfolio acquisition or an exit, we are routinely engaged before a mandate can be discussed openly and run the process on that basis.

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