What Makes a Strong Candidate for an Owner-Side Facilities or Construction Role: Insights from Matt Lesher
Matt Lesher of Real8 Group shares what actually separates strong candidates for owner-side facilities and construction roles at universities, health systems, and cultural institutions.
How to Benchmark Compensation Before Starting a Construction or Facilities Executive Search
A seven-step playbook for benchmarking compensation before starting a construction, facilities, or real estate executive search, so you attract the right candidates and close without surprises.
Hiring Executive Leaders in Self-Storage and Industrial Outdoor Storage: What Makes This Search Different
How self-storage and industrial outdoor storage platforms can find senior operations, development, and revenue management leaders in a specialized candidate market that generalist recruiters rarely reach.
Scope Creep in Executive Hiring: Why Construction and Real Estate Searches Go Off the Rails Mid-Process
Scope creep is one of the most common reasons construction and real estate executive searches stall or end in compromise. Here is why it happens and how to prevent it.
Real Estate Asset Management Executive Hiring in 2026: Compensation, Candidate Market, and What’s Driving Demand
Compensation benchmarks, candidate market dynamics, and what is driving demand for real estate asset management executives in 2026, from Director through Managing Director level.
Why Posting a Facilities or Construction Role Publicly Doesn’t Work: Insights from Matt Lesher
Matt Lesher of Real8 Group explains why publicly posting a Director or VP of Facilities role rarely surfaces the candidates you need, and what the structural problem really is.
Hiring Property Management Leaders: What Makes This Search Different and Why Generalist Recruiters Miss
Why property management leadership searches fail when treated like generalist hires, which segments are most active in 2026, what Director and VP compensation looks like today, and what a specialized property management recruiting firm actually does differently.
The Committee Hiring Problem: How Too Many Decision-Makers Slow and Derail Construction and Real Estate Executive Searches
Why consensus-driven hiring processes lose the best candidates, the four specific ways committee hiring derails construction and real estate executive searches, and how to structure a decision process that moves without sacrificing input.
Multifamily Property Management Compensation Benchmarks in 2026: From Regional Manager to VP
Where multifamily property management compensation sits in 2026 at every level from on-site manager to VP, which markets are driving the most competition for talent, and why the senior candidate pool is undersupplied relative to demand.
The Retirement Wave Timeline: Which Facilities and Construction Leadership Roles Are at Highest Risk in the Next 3-5 Years
Matt Lesher on which facilities and construction leadership roles are at highest retirement risk in the next three to five years, why succession plans that look viable often fall apart, and what institutional organizations should be doing now rather than waiting for the vacancy.
How to Run Reference Checks That Actually Inform the Hire: A Playbook for Construction and Facilities Executive Searches
A six-step playbook for running reference checks that actually change what you know about a finalist, covering how to go beyond the candidate’s list, what questions surface the most useful information, and when in the process to complete them.
Hiring Leaders in Build-to-Rent and Single-Family Rental: What Makes This Segment Different
Why build-to-rent and single-family rental platforms struggle to find the right executive talent, which roles are hardest to fill, and what compensation looks like at the Director and VP level in 2026.