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For years, the team at CRE Daily has been asked the same question by industry professionals: “Who can I trust with a hire that actually matters?”
The request kept coming. From owner-operators, lenders, sponsors, brokers — leadership teams looking for a search partner who understood the industry the way they did. Over time, an idea took shape. CRE Daily could partner with a firm that approached recruiting differently. One that truly understood the real estate business, prioritized relationships, communication, and a high-touch search process.
That partner is CA Search Advisors.
Two firms with different vantage points on the same industry. CRE Daily reaches the people building, financing, and operating commercial real estate every day. CA Search Advisors has spent 25+ years placing the leaders who run those firms. Together, we are a retained executive search firm with the industry’s broadest reach and most personal approach — under one roof.
Industry reach. A daily editorial relationship with the operators, owners, lenders, and brokers who lead commercial real estate.
A relationship-driven, high-touch retained search practice. Operator perspective, market-mapping discipline, and senior-led execution on every engagement.
At CA Search Advisors, recruiting is deeply personal. We love what we do, and every search reflects that passion. Having worked within the real estate industry ourselves, we understand firsthand the challenges, opportunities, and hiring decisions our clients face — because we have sat in those seats ourselves.
Our clients are not handed off to someone junior. Every search is led directly by a Managing Principal. That personal connection allows us to be nimble and strategic, tailoring each search to what matters most to our clients.
If it is important to you, it is important to us.
25+ years recruiting in commercial real estate. Former Head of Staffing, Americas at CBRE. Founded a boutique CRE search firm, then led the staffing and recruiting practice as Partner at Christenson Advisors.
25+ years across healthcare and seniors housing — finance, operations, marketing, and HR. Former SVP at Capital Funding Group and investor relations leader at Erickson Retirement Communities.
CRE Search Partners is the retained executive search practice born from the partnership between CRE Daily and CA Search Advisors. We focus on high-impact roles across commercial real estate — leadership hires that materially shape growth, performance, culture, and long-term value creation.
Whether you’re defining a newly created role, planning a leadership succession, or pursuing a confidential replacement, we approach the work the same way: with discipline, discretion, and the senior attention every consequential hire deserves.
We place leaders across the full spectrum of commercial real estate.
Primarily C-suite, senior, and mid-level roles where the right hire can materially impact business performance. That said, we are not limited by title. If the role is important to your business, it is important to us.
Every engagement begins with the business, the team, the culture, and the actual need behind the opening. We challenge assumptions and help shape the role before the search begins.
We map relevant companies, teams, and talent pools — not lists. The picture is complete before we approach a single candidate.
The strongest candidates rarely apply. We engage them directly, with discretion and care.
Capability, track record, leadership style, motivation, cultural alignment, long-term upside. We present a curated slate, never volume.
From kickoff to close, you work with us — never handed off to junior execution staff.
We measure success by the quality and longevity of the hire. In the rare case it doesn’t work, we re-engage and replace.
Whether you’re creating a new role, planning succession, or pursuing a confidential replacement, let’s have a conversation.