Real Estate Leasing: lateral monitor

Sartori & Partners data show 476 lateral moves in Real Estate Leasing from November 2025 to October 2026. Year on year the count held level (509 to 500 on settled windows, -1.8%). It fell behind the market's own change of +9.0%.

Over the three years to October 2026, 1,424 lawyers moved in Real Estate Leasing, 474 of them partners (33.3%). They joined 366 different firms. 13.8% stepped up a level on the move and 21.2% changed city, against 12.3% and 21.6% across the market over the same three years. 42.8% came from firms with 1,000+ lawyers.

Partners account for 31.3% of movers, near the market's 27.7%. On settled windows partner moves alone went from 170 to 154 (-9.4%), a change inside the noise of the two counts, so we read it as flat. A step up in title came with 13.7% of moves (market 12.9%).

211 firms hired at least one lateral in Real Estate Leasing in the window. The ten firms at the head of the hiring table took 22.6% of arrivals (12.9% market-wide), so hiring here is moderately concentrated. First on the hiring table is Greenberg Traurig, with arrivals in the 21-40 band.

By city, New York comes first (14.3% of arrivals), then London (6.9%). 20.2% of movers also changed city, against 20.5% market-wide.

Group moves were 1.1% of the total (market 1.5%).

There were 231 open roles in Real Estate Leasing on law-firm career pages on November 11, 2026.

For a firm planning a hire in Real Estate Leasing, a flat market means candidates are not being pulled by a wave: the case for a move has to come from the platform.

Sartori & Partners data count 179 dated deals in Real Estate Leasing in the 12 months to October 2026 and 470 over the three years to October 2026.

Real estate work is involved in 90.4% of them.

By client industry, Real Estate comes first with 38.1%.

Loeb & Loeb ranks first among advising firms over the period, in the 21-40 band.