🏙️ Live from CREtech London – Europe 2030

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🌊 A poolside view of CREtech London 2025 🏙

We attended the packed one-day CREtech London summit at Convene Aldersgate, where more than 400 execs gathered to explore “Europe 2030”. The sessions moved at lightning pace thanks to master-moderator Emily Wright, who kept the conversation sharp and the audience fully engaged.

As proud partners, we wanted to dedicate this edition to dive into our takeways from the event:

📊 Market insights – why volatility is opening doors for UK real estate
🏢 Design pulse – atriums, greenery and the “WOW” factor replace grey cubicles
🌱 Sustainability insights – retrofit first, rebuild last
🤖 AI insights – from pilot tests to live, revenue-saving tools

🏝️ Summer splash notice: PropTech Pool is taking a short break until August. We’ll return with fresh, sun-soaked insight. Enjoy the swim! 🏊‍♂️

 🌊 The UK Real Estate WOW Effect

Simon Carter of British Land, Mark Allan of Landsec and Tyler Goodwin of Seaforth Land opened with a reality check: The past five years delivered a pandemic, a land war and three interest-rate cycles–evidence that long-range forecasts are fragile.

Instead of chasing certainty and trying to “look into a crystal ball”, they are leaning on flexible balance sheets and London’s global pull. Political drama in Washington is sending fresh capital toward the UK, while housing demand still far exceeds supply. In their words, volatility is simply the new opportunity set.

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🤖Where Are We with AI in Real Estate?

JLL gave a peek at Falcon, their “ChatGPT for buildings.” Brokers now can draft leases in minutes, and the system even pings maintenance teams with ready-made schedules. If someone else has already built a great tool, JLL Spark (the JLL tech arm) simply buys it: saying that great tech doesn’t always have to be built in-house when speed is of essence. They’re also running crash-courses so every employee can speak AI. And yes, data may be “sexy” again, but in JLL’s words - it still takes people to decide which numbers really matter.

The panel Never Just Tech: Unlocking the Value of AI in Real Estate pushed the same theme: Technology delivers only when paired with people and process. Leaders across the sector are moving from chatbots to agentic AI: systems that take action, not just answer questions, early pilots are already cutting deal times and smoothing workflows. 

♻️ Retrofitted Skyscrapers? Yes!

Yasmin Al-Ani Spence of WilkinsonEyre called retrofit “the fast lane to net-zero”, adding that “a building the age of my son should never be considered obsolete.” Two projects underscored the point:

• Citi Tower in Canary Wharf will reuse more than 100 000 tons of embodied carbon and reorganise the 42-storey icon into “vertical villages” for modern work.

• LSBU Hub transformed a 1970s concrete block into a light-filled campus centre while cutting embodied carbon by nearly half.

The message was clear: Carbon saved is capital gained, and planners increasingly favour deep retrofit over demolition.

Our main takeaways

Even with all the uncertainty, London still feels like a safe bet.
Global investors trust its clear legal system, the city desperately needs more homes, and wild price swings reward anyone quick on their decisions. Buildings that are bright, green, and social rent out faster and keep people happier for longer. And cutting carbon by re-using what’s already there is beginning to show up as real savings on the balance sheet.

Above all, AI has stepped off keynote slides and into everyday use; the smart money is already asking every process, “what can we automate next?”

All in all, the CREtech London event did not disappoint and we very much look forward to the CREtech NewYork happening on October 21-22, you can still make it to claim your tickets here.