Commercial Real Estate Associate / Business Development

BellCornerstone offers a national platform for commercial real estate professionals to source opportunities, build executive-level relationships, and close meaningful deals across local and cross-border markets. This hybrid role in Manlius, NY pairs independence with strong platform support, enabling you to tackle large transactions with a high degree of autonomy. You can expect a benefits package, a performance-driven culture, and clear pathways to growth within a multi-time award-winning team.

Benefits

• 401(k)
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Professional development assistance

Responsibilities

• Identify opportunities, cultivate relationships, win business, and close deals
• Engage decision-makers who oversee substantial real estate portfolios, including building owners, private investors and family offices, CEOs, CFOs, and other C-suite leaders
• Portfolio dispositions
• Sale-leasebacks
• Corporate real estate strategy assignments
• Multi-location consolidations
• Large single-asset dispositions
• Monetization of surplus real estate
• Develop and nurture pipelines and long-term client relationships
• Pursue opportunities locally in New York and the Northeast and across all 50 states and Canada, leveraging a national platform with local reach
• Operate within a strategy-driven brokerage that provides platform support for larger transactions

Requirements

• Proactive outbound outreach and meetings with building owners and C-level executives at companies with substantial real estate footprints

Who you’ll be calling on

• Building owners
• Private investors and family offices
• CEOs, CFOs, and other C-suite leadership
• Corporate real estate decision makers

Platform reach — local opportunity, national execution

• All 50 U.S. States
• Canada

Typical engagements

• Portfolio dispositions
• Sale-leasebacks
• Corporate real estate strategy assignments
• Multi-location consolidations
• Large single-asset dispositions
• Surplus real estate monetization

Three distinct opportunity paths

• Established Commercial Real Estate Producers

  Bring relationships and scale up your impact with better compensation. Enjoy top-tier splits on the relationships you bring, access to national buyers and investors, team support when it helps you win, and a platform built for large transactions rather than small deal churn.

• Residential Agents Ready to Go Commercial

  Transition without a cold start, with draw against future commissions, structured training and mentorship, early exposure to live commercial deals, and a clear path to full commercial producer status. It’s a transfer of proven sales ability into larger transaction economics.

• Elite Business Development / Enterprise Sales Professionals

  Enter commercial real estate with structured training and market strategy, a performance-based compensation model with high six-figure upside, and a long-term wealth-building career path.

Environment built for producers

• Low internal bureaucracy
• Fast decision making
• Independence with robust support
• Team collaboration when it helps win business
• Leadership that understands production cycles

Compensation structures

• Tier 1 — Experienced Producers: Customized top-tier commission splits based on production and relationships brought
• Tier 2 — Growth Producers: Strong splits with performance-based increases
• Tier 3 — New to Commercial Real Estate: Draw against future commissions plus training and ramp-up support

What sets BellCornerstone apart

• National transaction footprint
• Executive-level client relationships
• Multi-time award-winning team
• Serious deal flow and upside
• Team-first but performance-driven environment

Culture fit

• Opportunity obsessed
• Competitive yet team-oriented
• comfortable with high activity levels
• Motivated by performance-based income
• Energized by big wins
• Willing to bet on yourself

Application question

Application question: This role requires proactive outbound outreach and meetings with building owners and C-level executives at companies with large real estate footprints. Please describe your specific experience or demonstrated ability to successfully engage these stakeholders.

Ability to commute

Manlius, NY 13104 (Required)

Work location

Hybrid remote in Manlius, NY 13104