Company · Construction recruitment
High Stakes
The stakes are high when the development is vertical
Apartments · Mixed use · Commercial · Hotels — site to boardroom.
- Live projects
- 165
- Live projects
- Apartments
- 29,970
- Apartments
- Founded
- 2026
- Founded
- Sector
- 1
- Sector
About
South East Queensland is rising.
Every high-rise apartment, mixed-use, commercial and hotel project going up across South East Queensland — mapped, ranked, and cross-referenced to the people delivering them.
High Stakes covers one sector and nothing else. Retained search only. No contingent. No volume. No spray.
The register came before the first search: 165 live projects, 29,970 apartments, one coastline going vertical. When a brief opens, we already know who moves the needle and who's within reach.
- Industry
- High rise construction recruitment
- Specialities
- Apartments · Mixed use · Commercial · Hotels
- Model
- Retained search only. No contingent. Ever.
- Coverage
- Brisbane · Gold Coast · Sunshine Coast
- Register
- 165 live projects · 29,970 apartments
Founder
The person you brief is the person who searches.
Stuart Murray
Founder · High Stakes
Stuart runs every search personally — profiling the market, sharpening the client's narrative and making the calls. One sector. Every discipline. Nothing else.
Before any name is shared, fit is decided both ways: the individual profiled, the builder profiled, the job stress-tested against market data.
What we publish
The intelligence layer.
High Stakes Register · 2026
The names that delivered.
Our annual named list of the people getting SEQ high-rise out of the ground. Profiled against delivery record, program discipline, cost control and leadership — checked against the live project map before anyone is listed.
Read more →High Stakes Report · Quarterly
Signal, not noise.
Movement, pay and pipeline data drawn from the register, live briefs and completed placements. Aggregate only. Where the data is thin, we say so and publish the sample size.
Read more →High Stakes Index · Monthly
One number for SEQ demand.
A single demand reading for SEQ high-rise, computed from live project and job data. Published whether it flatters the market or not.
Read more →We answer.
Direct contact, no gatekeepers. If the job isn't set up to succeed, we'll say so before we search.