What is so different about Prefio?
We focus exclusively upon the real estate market, we have built a rich network of referrers within real estate who are motivated to take action and receive substantial rewards upon placement (at least £5,000). Our model gives you rapid access to a far greater proportion of the potential candidate pool and for a cost effective, fixed cost.
Can referrers refer to colleagues in the same organisation?
We thought long and hard about this and the simple answer is yes…but. The “but” is although we want to incentivise referrers to take action and be proactive we don’t want to encourage referrers to act unethically or to breach any terms of their employment contract. We take the view that the individual referrer is best placed to make these decisions – it is not something that we can police. Your confidentiality is of paramount importance to us, so we don’t reveal to anybody who you have referred – unless you agreed to take part in publicity but of course we would agree that individually at the appropriate time.
Can I see the extent of referrers before posting a vacancy?
Yes. We ask referrers to specify the areas in which they have contacts and also ask them to provide a few words to describe their role in an anonymised form (such as Partner, Real Estate Finance). You can see at the top right of most pages in the main website the number of active referrers, broken down into the main specialism groupings.
There are a couple of other businesses doing this referral recruitment - is this different?
Yes, we have designed it to be very different!
- We have a clear sector focus – we don’t aspire to being all things to all people.
- We are very open about how many active referrers we have in each “specialism” so that employers have a good feel as to how many active, relevant referrers we have.
- Although we have a lot of referrers the model has at its heart quality and relevance rather than just volume.
- We review all of the details that referrers and employers input before it goes live.
- Our referrers only receive details of opportunities that are really relevant to them.
- Referrers are motivated by very high rewards.


