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Living & Alternative Assets08 / Living & Alternative Assets
Invest in the people behind the living experience.
Build teams that understand the asset, the operating model and the people who use it every day.
Recruitment intelligence
Market context / 2025
€53bn
European living-sector investment volume
Source, scope & methodology
European Real Estate Investment Climbs to €241 Billion in 2025, Fuelled by Big Gains in the Healthcare Sector
CBRE · Published 2026-01-28
The €53bn figure concerns living assets only, not the entire alternative-assets category; CBRE reports a 9% annual increase. The total excludes France’s Q4 2025 living investment. Investment volume is not a measure of hiring.
What this means for a hiring brief
Start with the business outcome.
Investors and operators need leaders who can connect disciplined underwriting with development delivery, operating performance and the experience of residents.
PropertyTalents’ recruitment perspective on the cited research. National and sector indicators do not establish availability for a particular role.
Build-to-rentStudent accommodationSenior livingHealthcare real estate
The hiring lens
The operating model changes the hire.
Decide what the person must deliver before narrowing the search to familiar job titles.
Student accommodation
Academic-year demand, seasonal move-ins, community management and operating readiness.
Senior living & healthcare
Operator relationships, service responsibilities and the specific regulatory expertise the business needs.
Roles & assessment
Know what good
looks like.
Choose a hiring area to see example roles and the evidence to look for. These are recruitment priorities to discuss, not a list of current vacancies.
Example roles
Living Investment Director
Residential Portfolio Manager
What to assess
Plan this hireUnderwriting, market selection, financing judgement, operating assumptions and portfolio risk management.
Compensation contextCompare the role.
Compare the role.
Then compare the package.
Country, responsibility, asset scale and variable pay all change the comparison. Start with a like-for-like brief before asking for a salary range.
How we approach salary benchmarkingYour next hire
Make the brief
work harder.
Use the hiring area selected above, choose your market and take these questions into the next conversation.
Which living model and operator structure does the role serve?
How will asset performance and resident experience be measured?
Does the position require sector-specific operational or regulatory expertise?
The download is a short working brief you can edit. It does not submit an enquiry.
