About Cobalt
See why we're the most trusted recruitment partner to the clients we service.
The market-leader in real estate, property and construction recruitment, executive search, and HR advisory services.
The market-leader in real estate, property and construction recruitment, executive search, and HR advisory services.
We work with real estate investors - REITs, funds, private equity, and investment banks. We partner with property companies, landed estates, and developers. We advise those in real estate advisory, corporate occupiers, management and maintenance organisations, main contractors, and local authorities, all across the UK. And they like working with us, too, with 90% of businesses we’ve worked with choosing to work with us on repeat mandates, including some of the very best names in the sectors.
Who we work with
Who we work with
Our heritage and global presence
Our heritage and global presence
Cobalt Recruitment is where The Cobalt Group, our network of specialist real estate, finance and renewables recruitment businesses worldwide, began. As our flagship business, Cobalt has continued to specialise and further develop its reputation across these same core sectors that we originally started within, partnering with local clients across the world to become the trusted partner of choice within the UK, Germany, and the US.
And we’ve won a lot of awards on the way – like those for our recruitment services from APSCo (the Association Of Professional Staffing Companies).
- 2001 - Cobalt Recruitment is founded in London in 2001 by Timothy Rowe and Adam Walker, focused on general practice real estate recruitment.
- 2002-2003 - Cobalt expands into construction recruitment and finance recruitment for the real estate sector.
- 2003 - Maria Sinclair, now Managing Director - UK, joins Cobalt.
- 2003 - Cobalt establishes its Manchester office.
- 2008 - Cobalt launches in Berlin, Germany through Richard-Emanuel Goldhahn and Doreen von Bodecker, both now Managing Directors - Germany.
- 2009-2017 - Cobalt expands across 5 more sites in Germany, and various sites worldwide including Singapore, New Zealand and the UAE.
- 2014 - Tom Enefer, now Director, Real Estate & Capital Markets - UK, joins Cobalt.
- 2014 - Chris Sycamore, now Associate Director, Facilities Management - UK, joins Cobalt.
- 2015 - Stephen Shorter, now Group CEO, joins Cobalt.
- 2015-2019 - Cobalt win various awards from APSCo, The Times Top 100 list and other industry publications.
- 2019 - Cobalt launches in New York, USA.
- 2022 - Cobalt moves its London HQ to Chandos Street in the West End.
- 2023 - Nick Louca, Managing Director - US, joins Cobalt.
- 2023 - Comanos, renewable recruitment specialists, join the Cobalt Group.
What we can offer the sector
What we can offer the sector
A team of experienced recruitment and executive search specialists, capable of recruitment for those necessary, quick-to-fill roles, through to full-scale partnerships as part of your talent acquisition team. Alongside our market-leading database, we partner with market-leading job boards and use the most innovative technologies to find only the best in the business, so you only get the best for your business.
Meet some of our
specialist team
Meet some of our
specialist team
Nick Louca
Adam Mills
Matthew Tamburri
Leah Goldenberg
Diversity, Equity,
and Inclusion.
Diversity, Equity,
and Inclusion.
DE&I done right unlocks real business value. By embracing diversity, you can access a broader talent pool, improving the caliber of employee you can attract and retain. Our consultants are trained in inclusive hiring processes, and we can deliver unique annual diversity reports across our industries.
Get in touch.
Get in touch.
So, if you’re looking for a specialist recruitment agency in finance, real estate, construction and renewables, that’s experienced, award-winning, and is the trusted partner of choice across all its geographies, get in touch with us today.
