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Outsourced Recruitment
Outsourcing to South Africa offers a smart, strategic way to expand your team, without compromising on quality, culture, or performance.
Flexible, Scalable, Real Estate Talent Solutions
Our trained South Africa recruiters act as an extension of your team, fully aligned with your brand, processes, and objectives.
Growth in today’s property market requires balance. You need:
- Skilled, reliable people
- Operational flexibility
- Consistent service standards
- A structure that supports sustainable growth
Our South African model has been built specifically with property businesses in mind, ensuring cultural alignment, professional standards, and long-term success. From high-volume hiring to supporting specific roles or campaigns, our team can scale with your needs.
Our South Africa-based recruitment team delivers cost-efficient talent sourcing without compromising quality, providing high recruiter engagement and a focus on your priorities at every stage.
With a rapid candidate matching process and short time-to-hire, we ensure your roles are filled quickly and effectively.
Fully supported by GKR UK leadership and processes, our team acts as an extension of your recruitment function, maintaining consistent standards and alignment with your objectives.
This model is ideal for high-volume or entry-level recruitment across all real estate sectors, offering scalable, flexible solutions tailored to your business needs.
Why South Africa?
South Africa has become a trusted hub for UK-facing professional services. It offers:
- Strong English fluency and communication skills
- Highly educated professionals
- A mature service-led working culture
- UK-aligned working hours
- Experience supporting international businesses
Many UK property firms are surprised by the calibre of candidates available, particularly across administration, property management support, accounting and marketing functions.
Service levels do not drop. In many cases, clients report improved consistency and responsiveness due to clear structure and focused role design.
How businesses are outsourcing to South Africa:
Lettings & Sales Administration
A multi-branch independent agency was losing negotiator time to compliance paperwork, AML checks, and offer progression admin. Revenue staff were spending too much time behind a desk.
We placed a remote Lettings Administrator from South Africa, dedicated to compliance, referencing coordination, tenancy paperwork, and CRM management.
- Negotiators gained back 10–15 hours per week
- Offer-to-completion timelines improved
- Fall-through rates reduced due to tighter process management
- Revenue staff focused purely on instructions and deals
Property Management Support
A growing portfolio was creating bottlenecks in maintenance coordination and landlord communication. UK Property Managers were overwhelmed and reactive.
A remote Property Management Support professional was embedded to handle contractor coordination, maintenance logging, chasing invoices, and diary management.
- Faster response times to tenants
- Improved landlord communication consistency
- Property Managers focused on escalations and portfolio growth
- Reduced burnout within the UK team
Accounts & Bookkeeping
A property firm was struggling with reconciliations, rent chasing, and reporting delays, impacting visibility and decision-making.
We introduced a qualified South African Bookkeeper with experience in UK property accounting systems.
- Monthly reconciliations delivered on time
- Improved cash flow tracking
- Cleaner reporting for directors
- Reduced reliance on external accounting support
Marketing & Social Media
An agency wanted stronger brand visibility but couldn’t justify a full-time UK marketing hire.
A remote Marketing Executive was appointed to manage social content, property listings, email campaigns, and brand consistency. The firm moved from reactive posting to proactive brand building without overstretching the budget.
- Consistent LinkedIn and Instagram presence
- Improved property exposure
- Structured email campaigns
- Stronger employer brand positioning
Personal & Executive Assistance
A Managing Director of a start-up proptech firm was stuck in operational admin, limiting strategic focus.
A remote Executive Assistant in South Africa was embedded to manage inbox triage, reporting collation, and internal coordination.
- Clearer diary structure
- Faster decision-making
- Reduced operational noise
- More time spent on growth and leadership
Business Support Functions
A scaling real estate agency needed a structured onboarding, document management, and internal process support, but didn’t want to fragment responsibility across the team.
A remote Business Support professional was hired to centralise documentation, compliance tracking, onboarding packs, and internal reporting. The business became more scalable because its foundations became stronger.
- Improved compliance consistency
- Smoother onboarding of new staff
- Reduced duplication of effort
- Greater operational discipline
The process:
A dedicated outsourced recruitment and RPO solution, delivered through our exclusive South Africa-based resourcing team.
We identify and engage candidates for your roles using market mapping, headhunting, and extensive sector networks. Active and passive candidates are sourced to ensure speed and quality.
Each candidate is rigorously pre-screened, including competency, technical skills, and cultural fit, so you meet only qualified, high-performing talent.
The SA team handles full recruitment administration, from shortlisting and interview coordination to offer management and onboarding support, all managed by GKR UK leadership.
Quality first.
South African professionals working with UK businesses are:
- Fully integrated into your systems
- Performance managed
- Customer-focused
- Used to international service expectations
Operationally, it feels like hiring a UK-based remote team member within a more cost-efficient framework. This model allows businesses to:
- Improve margin resilience
- Reinvest into revenue-generating roles
- Scale support functions sustainably
- Reduce pressure on fixed UK salary overhead
For many firms, this creates room to grow without overstretching. It’s a strategic staffing decision, not a budget compromise.
What outsourcing looks like:
Our South Africa team partners with your business to source, screen, and shortlist top candidates globally, managing the recruitment process efficiently and with full alignment to your requirements.
- Dedicated recruiters aligned with your hiring needs and strategy
- Rapid sourcing, screening, and shortlisting of candidates
- Flexible support to scale recruitment up or down depending on demand
- Clear communication and regular updates to keep you fully informed
We act as an extension of your recruitment function, working closely with your team to understand your requirements and ensure seamless delivery.
Start a conversation:
Every great hire begins with a conversation worth having.
If you’re thinking about growth, navigating hiring challenges, or exploring new ways to attract talent, we’re here to help you find the right fit.
Introduce yourself:
Alessandra Susanna
Energetic, versatile, and built to go the distance.
Alessandra joined GKR with 18 months of recruitment experience and a background in Psychology, bringing a people-first approach to Property Management and Office Support recruitment. Based in Johannesburg, she’s known for her energy, empathy, and love of a challenge. When she’s not recruiting, you’ll likely find her chasing a view, a gin bar, or planning a dinner with the cast of The Vampire Diaries.
Alexandra Thomson
Bright, modern, and built for connection.
Alexandra joined GKR with over four years of recruitment experience. Based in Cape Town, she focuses on residential estate agency recruitment and is passionate about matching people with the right opportunities. Alex possesses an Honours degree in Psychology and a natural ability to build trust. Outside of work, she would love to share a dinner table with Steven Bartlett and Nigella Lawson.
