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Upcoming Events

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Wednesday, 4th March 2026

The Standard Hotel, London

What women notice about space - see more details below

Thursday 26th March 2026

One Southwark Bridge, London

Real Estate Customer Experience Study Tour: One SouthWark Bridge. Led by BDG Architecture and Design

Tuesday, 19th May 2026

PrintWorks, Leeds

UKREiiF Breakfast: Customer Experience as an Investment Metric - see more details below

International Women’s Day 2026

What women notice about space.

Real estate customer experience through our lens, and why it matters.

Wednesday, 4th March 2026

We are bringing together leaders from across the real estate industry for a short, focused conversation on the design and operational real estate decisions women notice first, and what those insights mean for safety, value, and performance in real estate assets. Short panel, followed by drinks, canapes and informal networking.

To RSVP, email info@experiencemakers.com

Real Estate Customer Experience Study Tour: One SouthWark Bridge

Led by BDG Architecture and Design

Thursday, 26th March 2026

Set on the South Bank of the Thames, One Southwark Bridge is a benchmark example of how legacy office buildings can be reimagined for modern experience-led work.

Formerly the headquarters of the Financial Times, the building has undergone a deep retrofit to become a high-performance, future-facing workplace—one that prioritises people, wellbeing, sustainability, and public realm alongside commercial function. Rather than starting from scratch, the transformation retained and upgraded the existing structure, delivering significant embodied carbon savings and achieving BREEAM Outstanding.

Inside, the building is designed around how people actually work and experience space today: flexible environments, inclusive amenities, sensory and wellness spaces, and strong connections between teams. At ground level, it opens itself back to the city, improving permeability and contributing to the wider South Bank experience.

For Experience Makers, One Southwark Bridge offers a real-world case study in:

  • Experience-led workplace design

  • Retrofit as a sustainability strategy

  • Balancing corporate scale with human-centred environments

  • Designing offices that engage both occupants and the city around them

This visit is an opportunity to look beyond aesthetics and examine how space, strategy, and experience come together in a complex, live workplace.

Read more about the building here

To RSVP, email info@experiencemakers.com

Image Credit: WPP

Experience Makers at UKREiiF

Customer Experience as an Investment Metric.

Why customer feedback and satisfaction belong in property investment decisions

Tuesday 19th May 2026

Experience Makers is hosting a focused breakfast discussion at UKREiiF exploring a simple but largely ignored question: should customer feedback and satisfaction be assessed at the point of property investment?

Investors routinely model yield, voids, capex, and ESG risk—yet rarely examine how customers actually experience the assets they’re buying. This session challenges that gap. Drawing on real-world examples from across the built environment, we’ll explore how customer sentiment, satisfaction data, and lived experience can act as early indicators of income stability, operational risk, and long-term value.

The conversation moves beyond theory to ask what it would mean, in practice, to treat customer experience as part of investment due diligence. What data should investors be looking at before acquisition? What risks are currently being mispriced? And how might better use of customer feedback lead to more resilient returns?

This is not a discussion about “nice-to-have” service improvements. It’s about whether ignoring customer experience at the point of investment is a blind spot the market can no longer afford.

To RSVP, email info@experiencemakers.com

More of our Past Events.

  • What Real Estate Customers Really Want in 2026

    Workman, 80 Cheapside, London

    This was a data-driven, candid discussion about the biggest customer trends emerging for 2026 — what’s rising fast, what’s fading, and the surprising things customers are asking for but not getting.

    The event was hosted by Workman at their offices in London, and Chenai Gondo (CEO, RealService) moderating a conversation with a brilliant group of speakers including Monika Newton (Partner, Workman), Samantha McClary (CEO, BCO), Jules Barker (Associate Partner, McKinsey) and Alice Keown (Leasing Director, British Land).

  • Inspiring your Real Estate Customers to Voice their Opinions

    Online Webinar

    Survey fatigue. Ghosting. Low engagement. Real Estate teams face these challenges every day but they’re not inevitable. Join Experience Makers as we unpack what truly motivates customers to participate in insight surveys. Learn practical, research-backed strategies to boost response rates, gather richer feedback, and turn insights into meaningful action across your assets and portfolios.

  • Experience Makers' Lunch & Learn: AI and the Customers' Voice

    Arthur Hooper’s, 8 Stoney St, London

    Experience Makers network returned with a focused Lunch and Learn bringing senior real estate leaders together for a closed room discussion on how AI is reshaping customer understanding. The group examined where AI improves enquiry handling and insight generation, and where it creates gaps in trust or tone.

  • Experience Makers Goes Live

    Aures London, Leake Street Arches

  • Experience Makers Live: King’s Cross

    King’s Cross, London


  • Experience Makers Innovate Academy

    Central Saint Martins, King’s Cross, London

  • Experience Makers Christmas Drinks

    Archer Street, Soho, London

  • Experience Makers Founder Partners Lunch

    St Pancras Brasserie and Champagne Bar by Searcys

  • MIPIM: Experience Makers and BNP Paribas Real Estate Sunset Drinks Reception

    MIPIM

  • Why Sound and Music Matter in Property

    FORA - Borough

  • Experience Makers Summer Social

    MAKR SHAKR, The Barbican Centre, EC2

  • Experience Makers and Equiem PropTech Masterclass

    Huckletree Shoreditch

  • Ahead of the Race: An evening at Windsor Racecourse

    Windsor Racecourse

  • Skills gap for breakfast!

    The Record Room, Caravan, 152 Great Portland Street, W1W 6AJ

    Experience Makers' first 'ideas factory' for member and invited guests, hosted in collaboration with founder partner MAPP, to discuss practical ways to tackle the CX skills gap  in property, at company and industry level.

  • Research Launch: Modelling 'ROX'

    Argent, 4 Stable Street, NC1 4AB

  • ROX: In search of the holy grail

    The Crown Estate, 1 St James's Market, SW1Y 4AH

    Seminar exploring the challenge of measuring the value of customer experience with findings from the Experience Makers 'Modelling ROX' workshop. Hosted in the stunning offices of founder partners The Crown Estate, in collaboration with RealService /GRESB.

  • Experience Makers Seasonal Social

    Liquorette, 6 Rathbone Place

    A chance for the community that bring life and soul to property to get together. Full of insightful conversation and some Experience Merry-making!


  • Lessons in love from retail: Working with your customers

    We explored repurposing retail and working with your customers to create sustainable business with  Experience Makers partner Tandem Asset Management , fresh from the launch of The Foodpit at The Riverwalk Shopping Centre, Durham. Hosted at the fantastic event space at U+I, please join our panel of Experience Makers from across property, retail , brand strategy and creative design.

  • Online Talks: Lunchtime 'Listen-ins'

    In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, Experience Makers held a  series of online talks across the network to explore the impact on property from a customer experience perspective.

  • ROX Research Consortium Launch

    Experience Makers members and consortium contributors met to kick of important research to capture the value of CX in property.

  • Different Ideas for the future of CX - Blankety Blank!

    A diverse panel gathered during the UKAA’s Festival of Build to rent to compare views on the future of CX. The event was held in a Blankety Blank-style session, adding some fun and glitz to the festival

  • Voice of the Customer: LIVE

    Experience Makers and research partners RealService, co-hosted a  live focus group to hear from the people that matter most in Build to Rent.

  • Future Leaders Program

    Pioneering Executive Education Programme in collaboration with the Bartlett Real Estate Institute to equip future leaders with the skills to implement succesful CX strategy.

  • ROX Research Consortium

    Ground breaking research to classify customer experience in real estate, identify new metrics and develop best practice to help demonstrate “Return on Experience”

  • CX Future Leaders in Real Estate Programme

    A pioneering 6 week executive short course which immersed you in new thinking about the landlord and tenant relationship. Spread over 8 units, students came away equipped with the practical skills to design and implement a successful customer experience (CX) strategy that will help drive revenue, increase customer retention and build brand loyalty.

  • We launched the Customer Experience in Real Estate: Future Leaders Programme in partnership with Bartlett Real Estate Institute (UCL)

    A pioneering 6 week executive short course which immersed participants in new thinking about the landlord and tenant relationship. Spread over 8 units, students came away equipped with the practical skills to design and implement a successful customer experience (CX) strategy that will help drive revenue, increase customer retention and build brand loyalty.