Our Specialisms

Specialising in recruitment across the built environment since 2001, we are the market-leader in real estate, property and construction recruitment, executive search, and HR advisory services.

Real estate and construction
recruitment
with a difference.

We are specialist recruiters, operating across multiple geographies and specialisms across the built environment, built from decades of experience in international real estate and construction.​

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Cobalt's Specialisms

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The Great North: Who Will Staff the Pipeline?

The Great North: Who Will Staff the Pipeline?

Five years of Cobalt recruitment data reveal rising demand for specialist talent across the North. As Great North investment accelerates, can the region build the workforce needed to deliver?
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Wednesday Market Insights: The 2027 workforce challenge across the built environment

Wednesday Market Insights: The 2027 workforce challenge across the built environment

As employers prepare their 2027 hiring strategies, the challenge isn't simply finding talent. It's understanding where specialist capabilities are becoming harder to secure, where hiring requirements are restricting access to suitable professionals, and how different market conditions should influence recruitment decisions. Drawing on conversations across Cobalt's specialist desks, we examine what employers should be considering before taking their next brief to market.
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Why Your Perfect Building Surveyor Might Not Exist

Why Your Perfect Building Surveyor Might Not Exist

Why are building surveying roles so difficult to fill? Cobalt's Ashleigh Pearce explores how outdated hiring briefs, salary expectations and inflexible requirements are affecting recruitment, and what employers can do differently in 202
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