Insights

The Employment Rights Act 2025 is changing how employers across construction, real estate, infrastructure and engineering manage their workforce. Maria Sinclair, Managing Director at Cobalt Recruitment UK, explores the key reforms, implementation timelines and practical steps employers should take to prepare.

One year on, The Great North is moving from ambition to delivery. Explore the region's investment progress, evolving devolution landscape and the skills challenges shaping its future growth.

Cobalt celebrates 25 years in business, from its beginnings in London in 2001 to an international group spanning multiple markets, brands and specialist recruitment services.

Maria Sinclair, Managing Director UK at Cobalt Recruitment, explores why the built environment skills gap goes beyond recruitment, examining retention, career awareness, AI, apprenticeships and what the industry can do to build a stronger talent pipeline.

The built environment’s workforce needs are becoming increasingly complex. This edition of Wednesday Market Insights explores the Map the Gap campaign, the growing importance of sustainability capability across the development lifecycle, and the evolving talent requirements of the later living sector.

Major land acquisitions are signalling renewed confidence across the residential development sector. Discover why developers are recruiting strategically before the market fully recovers, the skills in demand, and what Cobalt's Development Index reveals about the future of hiring.

Whether you already work in residential living, hire into it, or want to find out more about what it’s like to work within BTR, later living, co-living and more, you’ll want to see the insights from our interview with Queen Ng'wananogu, General Manager at luxury co-living provider, Dandi.

First came the Northern Powerhouse, then the Levelling Up agenda – and now we have The Great North. Here we explore how changes in policies have shaped the built environment, what they'll mean for the sector over the next decade, and what skills are in-demand and where across the property lifecycle as a result of them.

While planning, projects, and partnerships were standout themes of UKREiiF 2025, people emerged as a fourth, equally crucial pillar, as without the right people, progress in any of the other three areas is limited. See the skills most in-demand from our conversations and the talks at UKREiiF 2025.

From large-scale infrastructure to local regeneration schemes, the energy at UKREiiF 2025 reflected a shift in sentiment. See our roundup of how the common themes from it - planning, projects, partnerships and people, will form the backbone of growth in UK real estate over the coming years.

Knight Frank was looking to expand its Super Prime department from 2 to 4 people, requiring both a head of super prime role (Partner, Regional Relationship Manager), and an Associate-level role (Relationship Manager) that would report into them. They would be responsible for managing some of the highest-valued residential properties in London.

Cobalt was approached by this highly-regarded BTR brand, initially to hire a General Manager for one of their new residential schemes in London., that was due to launch imminently.