Kent Elliott Kent Elliott

The fight for top talent has been a marker of this business cycle. It has disrupted the office market and changed the way that companies use space, and it has given way to new office niches, like co-working environments. Like all industries, commercial real estate companies are competing for top talent, and with historically low unemployment rates, attracting talent can be a challenge. We sat down with Kent Elliott of RETS Associates, to get a guide to hiring for commercial real estate companies.

“Today's commercial real estate companies understand that the right talent has the power to significantly increase profitability,” Elliott, a principal at RETS Associates, tells GlobeSt.com. “With U.S. employment holding steady at near 50-year lows, these companies also realize that demand for talent is outpacing supply in many regions. This creates an employees' market, where employers must act quickly to compete, not only to recruit the very best, but also to retain them.”

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Kelsi Maree Borland

Kelsi Maree Borland is a freelance journalist and magazine writer based in Los Angeles, California. For more than 5 years, she has extensively reported on the commercial real estate industry, covering major deals across all commercial asset classes, investment strategy and capital markets trends, market commentary, economic trends and new technologies disrupting and revolutionizing the industry. Her work appears daily on GlobeSt.com and regularly in Real Estate Forum Magazine. As a magazine writer, she covers lifestyle and travel trends. Her work has appeared in Angeleno, Los Angeles Magazine, Travel and Leisure and more.