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Development & Real Estate01 / Development & Real Estate
From a promising site to a delivered project.
Hire people who can make the development case work — and stay accountable as it becomes a real asset.
Recruitment intelligence
Market context / 2024
1.5m
EU dwellings granted building permits
Source, scope & methodology
Housing in Europe – 2025 edition
Eurostat · Published 2025-11-27
Rounded figure reported in the publication's Built-up areas section. Permits concern dwellings, not all real estate development; permits do not equal completed homes. Publication text reflects late-November 2025 data.
What this means for a hiring brief
Start with the business outcome.
Assess development leaders on turning a permitted pipeline into viable projects, with evidence of planning, feasibility and delivery decisions.
PropertyTalents’ recruitment perspective on the cited research. National and sector indicators do not establish availability for a particular role.
Commercial developmentLogistics & industrialMixed-useResidential development
The hiring lens
Hire for the stage you are in.
Decide what the person must deliver before narrowing the search to familiar job titles.
Feasibility & funding
A viable appraisal, credible costs and a development case that survives scrutiny.
Delivery
Ownership of programme, consultants, contractors and commercial trade-offs.
Leasing & exit
An occupier strategy and an exit plan that shape decisions early.
Roles & assessment
Know what good
looks like.
Choose a hiring area to see example roles and the evidence to look for. These are recruitment priorities to discuss, not a list of current vacancies.
Example roles
Development Director
Development Manager
What to assess
Plan this hireFeasibility discipline, ownership of development budgets and evidence of delivering the relevant asset class.
Compensation contextCompare the role.
Compare the role.
Then compare the package.
Country, responsibility, asset scale and variable pay all change the comparison. Start with a like-for-like brief before asking for a salary range.
How we approach salary benchmarkingYour next hire
Make the brief
work harder.
Use the hiring area selected above, choose your market and take these questions into the next conversation.
Which project decisions will this person own?
What asset type and project scale must they have delivered?
Where do local planning knowledge and relationships matter most?
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