Best 20 PropTech Recruiters in Real Estate
With decades of experience and a global reach, these recruiters & headhunters drive digital innovation in PropTech startups and traditional real estate companies. ↓
PropTech sits where real estate meets software, and hiring for it takes recruiters who speak both languages, REITs and asset managers on one side, SaaS and smart-building startups on the other.
The 20 recruiters below are the ones who do that well, spanning the UK, US, Europe, India, and Asia-Pacific, from specialist agency founders to the real-estate practice leads at firms like Korn Ferry and Ferguson Partners. Here’s who they are and where each operates.
- Louisa Dickins
- George Buck
- Andrew Deverell-Smith
- Alexander Morari
- Anthony LoPinto
- Thomas Fleury
- Serena Althaus
- Peter Moore
- James Wakefield
- Chris Omeissah
- Manoj Iyer
- Diron Chua
- Daniel Kim
- Matthew Cohen
- Jane Lyons
- Linda J. Isaacson
- Brittney Holt
- Tabitha Francis
- Paul Daversa
- Aliette Kiss
Louisa Dickins
Geo: UK, Europe
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Louisa co-founded LMRE in 2018 and built it into one of the world’s leading proptech recruitment consultancies, placing executives across Europe, the Americas, and Asia-Pacific.
She’s highly visible as host of THE-PROPCAST, where she interviews proptech CEOs and investors, and clients point to her global network and honest, consultative style for matching, in her words, “the leading PropTech minds with innovative organizations”.
- Linkedin: Louisa Dickins
- IG: @louisadickins
George Buck
Geo: UK, Europe
George is a veteran headhunter with 20+ years in property and proptech, who founded Dalton Buck in 2012 after stints at a publicly listed recruitment firm and an executive-search boutique.
He’s placed C-level leaders across the whole property life cycle worldwide, from proptech software companies to established asset managers, and Dalton Buck became Zoopla’s number one recruitment partner in the UK. In 2024 the firm won the industry’s “Best Real Estate & PropTech Recruiter” award.
- Linkedin: George Buck
Andrew Deverell-Smith
Geo: UK/Global
Andrew founded Deverellsmith in 2006 and grew it into a multi-office recruitment group serving real estate and proptech clients worldwide, completing hundreds of executive searches across Europe, the US, and the Middle East over 22+ years.
He’s known for advising proptech startups on building leadership teams and helping traditional property firms attract next-generation digital talent, including consulting major UK agencies on adapting to proptech disruption, as real estate converges with tech.
- Linkedin: Andrew Deverell-Smith
- X (Twitter): @deverell_smith
Alexander Morari
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Geo: Europe
Alexander runs PropertyTalents, an executive-search firm serving real estate and proptech across European markets. MRICS-qualified, he pairs property domain knowledge with tech-sector expertise, placing digital-innovation leaders into traditional real estate companies and CEOs and COOs into high-growth proptech ventures.
He’s an active community voice who often moderates panels at events like PropTech Connect, and his pan-European network has filled key roles for smart-building startups, construction tech firms, and major landlords adopting proptech.
- Linkedin: Alexander Morari
- X(Twitter): @AlexanderMorari
Anthony LoPinto
Geo: US
Tony is the Global Sector Leader of Korn Ferry‘s real estate practice, and previously founded his own boutique search firm as well as the SelectLeaders job network.
With 25+ years in real estate, he’s led numerous high-profile CEO and C-suite searches and is one of the most recognized names in real estate recruiting.
- Linkedin: Anthony LoPinto
Thomas Fleury
Geo: France & EU
Thomas works both sides of proptech hiring: he oversees PropTech Jobs, a global job board and resource hub for proptech careers, while running retained searches as an Executive Search Director at AviaryConsulting for senior roles like CTOs, Heads of Product, and Country Managers.
That dual vantage point keeps him plugged into the community and quick to spot rising talent, and he’s placed senior people at European property-management SaaS companies and fintech-proptech crossover firms. Bilingual and well-networked, he brings a continent-wide view to each search.
- Linkedin: Thomas Fleury
Serena Althaus
Geo: UK/Europe
Serena is Chair, Europe at Ferguson Partners, a global real estate executive-search and advisory firm, and has spent over two decades in search with a recent focus on proptech.
She’s argued publicly that the sector’s relative youth means looking at non-traditional talent pools, and has overseen C-suite placements for proptech startups in areas like flexible workspace and real estate data analytics, plus digital-transformation hires for EU property firms.
She also writes on emerging roles, such as “the rise of the real estate senior advisor”.
- Linkedin: Serena Althaus
Peter Moore
Geo: UK/Global
Peter leads Macdonald & Company, one of the world’s largest recruitment firms dedicated to property.
A Chartered Surveyor who’s worked in real estate human capital for over twenty years, he expanded the firm into PropTech roles as the industry modernized, and advises global developers and investors on hiring digital and innovation officers.
He was an early champion of Macdonald & Co’s annual PropTech Salary Survey, which benchmarks the talent market, and is frequently quoted on hiring trends.
- Linkedin: Peter Moore
- X (Twitter): @PeterHMoore
- IG: macdonaldandco
James Wakefield
Geo: UK/EMEA & APAC
James has been central to Cobalt Recruitment‘s global growth, joining in 2007, helping open its UAE and Asia-Pacific offices, rising to CEO in 2017, and now serving as Executive Chair.
Under him Cobalt built a “specialised real estate technology recruitment team” for PropTech professionals and property-management software specialists, and he’s overseen hires like regional Heads of PropTech for large consultancies and product leads for real estate software companies in Germany and the Middle East.
Having lived in the UAE and run APAC operations, he’s particularly strong on cross-border searches.
Chris Omeissah
Geo: Australia/Asia-Pacific
Chris built a career driving proptech at Macquarie Group and KPMG in Australia before launching Proptech360 to connect talent with innovative companies.
His background bridges both worlds, from launching international proptech companies into the Australian market to advising landlord boards on technology adoption, and he uses it to recruit executives who can scale proptech businesses or lead digital transformation.
He’s placed APAC General Managers for US proptech scale-ups and CEOs for Australian smart-building startups, and advises VC firms on proptech human capital, describing his own role as the “connective tissue between the worlds of property and technology”.
- Linkedin: Chris Omeissah
Manoj Iyer
Geo: India/Global
Manoj founded Upraisal in 2013 and grew it into a premier boutique for proptech hiring in Asia, after pivoting to the sector as it gained momentum in India.
He and his team have staffed some of India’s best-known proptech startups, from property-listing platforms to construction-tech SaaS, and helped multinational proptech companies build their India teams.
Upraisal’s prepaid, unlimited-hiring “Dedicated Resource Model” drew press attention for rethinking how recruitment is sold, and Manoj is a regular speaker at Indian proptech conferences.
- Linkedin: Manoj Iyer
Diron Chua
Geo: Singapore/ASEAN
Diron has led Wisenet Asia‘s real estate executive-search practice since the firm’s founding in 2011, handling C-suite and senior-management placements for everyone from public-listed property conglomerates to emerging proptech firms.
Based in Singapore with a network across Greater China and Southeast Asia, he advises proptech startups on expansion hires like country managers for new Asian markets, and is trusted by major developers to find tech-savvy executives for internal digital transformation.
His clients include sovereign wealth funds, REITs, and proptech companies.
- Linkedin: Diron Chua
Daniel Kim
Geo: USA
Known as “The Connector”, Dan co-founded Endeavor Agency, a boutique focused on proptech and commercial-real-estate talent, to serve the booming CREtech startup scene.
Over 12+ years in real estate recruiting he’s built deep networks across Los Angeles, the Bay Area, New York, and Texas, placing everyone from a Chief Product Officer at a property-management software startup to a Head of Growth at a rental marketplace, plus PropTech hires for established firms modernizing their teams.
Clients single out his high-touch, personalized style, and he mentors his Endeavor team to the same standard of candidate vetting.
- Linkedin: Daniel Kim
Matthew Cohen
Geo: USA
Matt leads the PropTech practice at DRI, a nationally recognized recruiting firm that openly directs its proptech inquiries to him.
He’s placed professionals across the sector’s sub-niches, property-management SaaS, smart-building IoT, CRE analytics, mortgage tech, staying current through near-daily contact with proptech executives and hiring managers.
One week it’s a VP of Engineering for a smart-home startup, the next a Head of Sales for a CRE leasing platform, and he offers flexible arrangements (contingency, retained, contract staffing) that proptech clients like.
DRI’s proptech work helped land it on Forbes’ 2024 Best Executive Recruiting Firms.
- Linkedin: Matthew Cohen
Jane Lyons
Geo: USA
Jane is a fixture of real estate executive search, with 25+ years and 700+ completed search assignments worldwide.
At Rhodes Associates she saw early how much technology would matter and made a point of placing executives who could bridge real estate and tech, including a Head of Digital Strategy for a major commercial landlord rolling out proptech portfolio-wide.
She’s placed CEOs of real estate investment-management firms and leads of emerging proptech units, served as Americas regional head of IRC Global Executive Search, and is deeply networked through groups like CREW NY (former co-president) and ULI. She’s now at Jackson Lucas after Rhodes’ merger.
- Linkedin: Jane Lyons
Linda J. Isaacson
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Geo: USA/Global
Linda was an early supporter of PropTech from inside the commercial real estate world, and in 2019 Ferguson Partners tapped her to launch its global Innovation & Technology search practice; she’s since founded her own advisory firm, BloomLarge.
She’s led searches for Chief Technology Officers at leading real estate investment firms and heads of innovation at construction companies adopting ConTech, and takes a whole-picture view, working to ensure placed leaders succeed culturally, not just on paper.
Beyond recruitment, she serves on the Urban Land Institute’s Global Exchange Council and the board of CREtech.
- Linkedin: Linda J. Isaacson
Brittney Holt
Geo: USA
Brittney represents the newer generation of recruiters built around the proptech startup scene, branding herself a “your dedicated partner in executive search, specializing in Tech (PropTech, InsurTech)” with a strong base in the Texas and West Coast communities.
She’s helped seed-to-Series B startups in property-management tech, home-services platforms, and IoT for buildings make critical leadership hires, often embedding as an extension of the team, one Texas multifamily startup credits her with quickly filling its Director of Engineering and VP of Customer Success roles.
Because she also covers InsurTech, she’s strong on proptech-insurance crossover roles, and is active on LinkedIn and panels about how small startups compete for talent.
- Linkedin: Brittney Holt
Tabitha Francis
Geo: USA & EMEA
Tabitha leads proptech recruitment across two regions for LMRE, running its New York office and North American outreach from the US while coordinating with the EMEA team.
That transatlantic remit has her relocating executives between Europe and the US, filling everything from a VP of Engineering for a smart-buildings firm to a Head of Expansion for a European proptech entering the US.
She’s behind some of LMRE’s marquee placements, including a CRO for a real estate fintech in London and a Head of Partnerships for a US property-data startup, and mentors consultants in the PropTech division as the firm expands (recently into the Middle East).
- Linkedin: Tabitha Francis
Paul Daversa
Geo: USA/Global
Paul is one of the tech industry’s elite headhunters, and his firm Daversa Partners has built executive teams for countless venture-backed companies.
In proptech specifically, he’s been behind leadership builds like staffing a hospitality-tech startup that became a unicorn and placing a CFO at a real estate marketplace heading for IPO.
He isn’t proptech-exclusive, but proptech founders increasingly seek out top tech recruiters as they scale, and Paul’s knack is pinpointing leaders who’ve scaled before. His client roster has included names like Robinhood, and Daversa Partners is a regular on Forbes’ Best Executive Recruiting Firms.
- Linkedin: Paul Daversa
- IG: daversapartners
Aliette Kiss
Geo: Australia
Aliette founded and directs Kraft Recruitment, a boutique working across property, the built environment, and PropTech in Australia.
Her background fits the brief: an architecture degree from the University of Sydney and a real estate license, plus hands-on property experience, which resonates with PropTech businesses hiring for roles that sit between product, delivery, and real estate operations.
She shares hiring and market commentary through Kraft’s channels, and because the firm also covers adjacent built-environment hiring, she’s a natural fit when a company needs talent who can translate between real estate needs and modern product teams.
- Linkedin: Aliette Kiss
Sum up
Between them, the recruiters above place much of the leadership that moves PropTech forward, across real estate, software, and the space where the two meet. The catch is access: they’re typically in heavy demand or come at a premium.
A practical alternative is partnering with EchoGlobal, where our industry expertise and global network can connect you with the right PropTech talent to power your growth.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, they are vital for real estate and construction companies adapting to digital transformation. PropTech recruiters connect employers with professionals skilled in real estate tech, data platforms, and automation tools. They also help startups and enterprises find leaders who can bridge property knowledge with advanced technology.
Key organizations include LMRE, Dalton Buck, Deverellsmith, PropertyTalents, Korn Ferry, PropTech Jobs, Aviary Consulting and EchoGlobal.
Most agencies charge 20% to 30% of a candidate’s first-year salary for permanent roles, with retained searches costing more for senior positions. Global placements or executive searches may involve structured fees tied to milestones. The cost typically reflects the recruiter’s industry specialization and international reach.
Choose agencies that demonstrate real experience in real estate technology or smart building innovation. Look for client success stories and cross-industry knowledge in property, construction, and SaaS. The best recruiters understand how tech trends like IoT and data analytics are reshaping real estate operations.
Proptech consultants provide advice to real estate companies and startups adopting new technologies. They’re essential in recruitment because they help identify skill gaps, recommend specialized talent, and ensure companies hire executives who align with their goals.
