About HireCRE

What HireCRE is

HireCRE is a resource for commercial real estate (CRE) and proptech professionals evaluating their careers. The site has two sides: an aggregated job feed that pulls active roles from employer career sites every six hours, and an editorial library covering the concepts, roles, and compensation patterns that shape CRE careers.

We built HireCRE because existing CRE job surfaces are either general-purpose sites with shallow coverage (Indeed, LinkedIn, ZipRecruiter) or industry publications that treat jobs as an afterthought. Neither does the core task — organizing CRE-specific opportunities alongside the context candidates need to evaluate them — well. HireCRE does both in one place.

How we source jobs

Every active role on HireCRE comes from one of three public sources:

Greenhouse — used by institutional sponsors, REITs, and proptech companies to publish open roles on their career sites.
Lever — same category of employers, different ATS.
iCIMS — used by several larger brokerage and operator platforms.

Our scrapers poll each source company's published career page every six hours, capture active roles, and normalize fields (title, company, location, pay when disclosed, posted date) so they're searchable alongside each other. When a role stops appearing on the employer's site, we mark it inactive within hours — you won't be sent to dead listings.

We do not post jobs on behalf of employers. We do not run a recruiting service. We do not sell placements. Every application goes directly to the employer's official careers system.

What we add beyond the listing

Aggregation alone isn't enough. For every job detail page we generate an Opportunity Snapshot: an extracted summary, key requirements, and key responsibilities derived from the employer's own posting language. It's a triage tool — it doesn't replace reading the full listing, but it lets you shortlist 30 roles in the time it would take to read 5 deeply.

Alongside the feed we publish:

A CRE Career Guide mapping roles to the capital stack and deal cycle.
A CRE Salary Guide with compensation ranges and context by seat.
An Interview Prep hub with 30+ concept explainers covering DSCR, debt yield, cap rates, equity waterfalls, and question banks for common seat types.
A blog with original market commentary, role deep-dives, and hiring-market reports using the real data from our feed.
A free CRE Salary Calculator that estimates 2026 total compensation by role, seat type, geography, and years of experience.

Editorial standards

Every article in the editorial library is written from a practitioner perspective, not a copy-for-SEO template. Our content goals, in order:

Be specific. Name the seats, the firms, the numbers. A post about CRE compensation that doesn't reference actual base ranges isn't useful; neither is a post about underwriting that doesn't walk through a concrete example.
Be honest about trade-offs. Every CRE career path has upside and downside. A guide that only talks about upside isn't a guide, it's recruiting copy. We try to be explicit about where the downside is for each path.
Link forward. Articles cross-reference the prep concepts, guides, and live roles they reference. Readers should be able to go deeper on any term without leaving the site.

We update articles when the market moves. When conditions change meaningfully — Fed rate moves, a sector rotation, comp bands shifting — we flag affected articles and revise rather than leaving stale content at the top of search results.

How we make money

HireCRE is funded by display advertising through Google AdSense. Ads are clearly labeled and never mixed with editorial recommendations. We do not accept sponsored job postings, and the ordering of the job board is never influenced by advertising relationships.

We may experiment with additional revenue sources over time — affiliate relationships with CRE training programs, a premium subscription tier for enhanced search, or partnerships with specific employers. If any launch, we'll disclose the relationship on the relevant page. Transparency about who is paying for what content is non-negotiable.

Corrections and takedowns

We make mistakes. If you see an error — a wrong location on a listing, an expired role still showing, a factual error in an article — email us at hirecre@a26cos.com and we'll fix or remove it within a business day.

If you're an employer and want your company's listings removed from the feed, email the same address. We'll honor the request and add the company to our exclusion list so new roles don't re-appear on the next scrape.

If you're a candidate featured (explicitly or implicitly) in an article and want a correction or removal, the same address works.

Who's behind this

HireCRE is operated by active commercial real estate practitioners who were frustrated with the lack of a single place to see open CRE roles alongside the career context needed to evaluate them. All editorial content is written in-house by this team; we do not run AI-generated filler or accept sponsored coverage.

The HireCRE Editorial team

Articles and concept explainers are published under the HireCRE Editorial byline. Our contributors have collective experience across:

Institutional acquisitions and asset management seats
Bank CRE credit and debt-fund origination
Investment sales and capital markets brokerage
Development and construction management
CRE analytics and proptech product

We publish under a collective byline rather than individual names because our contributors maintain active CRE careers at third-party firms. Individual attribution would create professional conflicts and constrain the candor readers come to HireCRE for. This is the same pattern many industry publications use when their contributors work in the industry they cover.

What that means in practice:

Every article is written by someone who has worked in the role, market, or function they're writing about.
We do not accept paid coverage. Employers cannot pay to have their roles featured, nor can training programs pay to be recommended. Anything that ever becomes a paid relationship will be disclosed inline on the relevant page.
When we reference a firm, rate, or dataset, we aim to be specific enough that a reader can verify it independently.

How we write and review

Draft. A contributor with direct experience in the relevant seat drafts the article.
Fact-check. Numbers and named firms are checked against public sources or the contributor's direct experience.
Review. A second editor reviews for accuracy, tone, and whether the piece actually helps a job-seeker make a decision.
Update. When market conditions change meaningfully — Fed rate moves, sector rotations, comp bands shifting — we revise affected articles rather than leaving stale content at the top of search results.

Corrections and press

Factual errors, corrections, takedown requests, press inquiries, or partnership questions all go to the same address: hirecre@a26cos.com. We respond within a business day.

What we cover

HireCRE focuses on commercial real estate roles and proptech roles that serve CRE. Specific categories we index and write about:

Capital markets, debt origination, investment sales, and mortgage banking.
Acquisitions, asset management, and portfolio management at institutional sponsors (REPE), public REITs, and family offices.
Credit and underwriting at banks, debt funds, mortgage REITs, and CMBS platforms.
Development, construction, and entitlement work at sponsors and vertically-integrated developers.
Property management, leasing, and operations at institutional owners and managers.
Research, analytics, and proptech roles that directly serve CRE workflows (data platforms, lease management tools, CRE analytics).

Residential real estate sales (single-family brokerage, residential mortgage) is out of scope — we do not index those roles.

Contact

General inquiries, corrections, employer requests: hirecre@a26cos.com.

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