Insights

Started your finance exams but not completed them yet? If you have some experience within finance, or even just an interest in it, find out more about a career in Property Management Accounting.

​The fight for talent within Real Estate Tech & IT roles is real. With budgets across Real Estate organisations in general restricted, and the need for highly skilled candidates in Real Estate Tech & IT still continuing to grow, how can you still hire and retain the best available talent in a sub-sector that has seen salaries rise by an average of 15% across its roles over the past 2 years alone, without continuing to increase these salaries?

Building upon our previous research into diversity in the Real Estate and Construction markets, this full-length 2023 edition features insight into the age, caring status, disability status, ethnicity, gender identity, marital status, religion, sexual orientation and socio-economic background of those who make up the sectors we recruit into.

At our latest Cobalt Conversations event, we explored the concept of ‘widening the gate’ to improve the recruitment part of a Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) strategy – not the idea of offering handouts of interviews or box-ticking based on characteristics, but of looking at recruitment and onboarding processes to make sure that the sector can develop, access and retain diverse talent within it. This will ultimately make our workplaces better, fuelled with greater creativity and productivity from a broader pool of talent. 

Community development key to BTR and PRS growth, sustainability and green shoots for investment and job opportunities - insights from UKREiiF 2023.

This 2nd Cobalt Conversations event aimed to analyse and understand the impact of using inclusive language in the workplace, in job descriptions and in general, and discuss the challenges people are facing in approaching the ever-changing discourse around diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Cobalt Recruitment hosted their first Cobalt Conversations event, starting conversations about the challenges faced when driving diversity and inclusion within real estate.

​Cobalt's 2022 Mental Health & Wellbeing Survey reveals three-quarters of professionals in the built environment would look for a new job if their employer wasn’t looking after their mental health and wellbeing. See more about this and further insights in our Report.

Cobalt took a market pulse from our network to find out how remuneration and total benefits packages have been changing since the Covid-19 pandemic across finance and accounting roles in real estate.

At Cobalt, we know that diversity should be a priority for all organisations in the real estate and construction sectors. That's why in 2022 we developed a new diversity survey sent to candidates, capturing as much detail as possible about those who are job-seeking in these sectors, so to be able to deliver real insights to the market.

The UK & Australia have officially signed a ground-breaking, historic, free trade agreement that will allow Australians 35 years old and under to work in the UK for 3 years - perfect for transferrable contract finance roles in real estate.

How has COVID affected the Real Estate industry and specifically business support roles like Executive Assistants, Personal Assistants and Operations staff within it? Find out here.