About Locale
Digitally transforming the real estate industry
Locale, the UK’s leading occupier experience platform, empowers the real estate industry to streamline building operations and enhance occupier experiences, fostering connected communities.
Since 2005, we have made every experience in a building and community count. We keep things simple from start to finish, enabling you to focus on your business and stakeholder priorities.
Our journey so far…
2024: Locale’s advisory board is established
Locale welcomes its first cohort of three external experts to advise and guide the senior leadership team in a brand-new advisory board.
2024: Locale becomes Technology Innovator of the Year Finalist for RESI Awards
Our ground-breaking solution is recognised in the proptech sphere by Property Week.
2023: Locale acquires Evergreen Reputation
We incorporated destination marketing, placemaking and social impact into our repertoire of services and elevate our digital-first approach to revolutionising UK real estate.
2023: Locale becomes Trustek Verified
We join the Trustek Verified Marketplace, enabling us to aid clients in finding the right proptech solution that can solve their real estate challenges.
2022: Locale becomes early adopter of WiredScore Accreditation Solutions
We partner with WireScore’s global client base of building owners and landlords who are looking to transition towards smarter, innovative assets.
2021: Locale’s portfolio expands to 80m sq ft
Our portfolio stretches across 80 million sq ft of commercial real estate, including 27k residential units, and boasts an average of 170,000+ active users of the platform and app. Around 1,200 buildings now benefit from our flexible and on-demand digital offering.
2020: Locale introduces bespoke content streaming
Visual communication is brought to the forefront in fostering an engaged community. Locale begins offering bespoke content streaming to provide meaningful and unique communications that promote the unique facilities, initiatives, areas of properties to their occupiers via digital displays.
2019: Locale crowned winner at Property Week Management All Stars
Locale wins Innovator/Systems Provider of the Year for our fully customisable platform that facilitates secure, accessible information with instant communication and visibility, including facilities booking, building maintenance, deliveries and signing in visitors.
2018: Locale joins the RICS Tech Affiliate Programme
As part of this important programme, we can help raise awareness of the adoption of technology within real estate and help RICS reinforce a high international standard of asset management, land development, construction and infrastructure.
2016: We become a PFM Winner
We won the PFM Partnership Award for our collaboration with The Shard and creating My Vertical City which was praised by occupiers, management and award judges as innovative and indispensable. The platform is still used for the seamless running of the building
2013: Our platform is deployed across BRAM
We implement out platform through Barratt Residential Asset Management, evolving its application to a full digital service offering for occupiers, which helped drive customer satisfaction and support a successful onboarding experience.
2012: The Shard joins forces with Locale
Iconic London landmark The Shard partners with Locale to support the mammoth challenge of managing and communicating with the thousands of people passing through its site every day. From the management of the buildings’ spaces, visitors, deliveries, staff, and stakeholders, Locale is the virtual community for the vertical city.
2012: Connecting the Olympic Village
We aided the build of a digital platform for a PRS conversion of the athlete’s village and worked with a number of stakeholders including the landlord, operator, and local authority to devise a solution.
2009: Strata Building experiences digital transformation
We implemented a centralised system to connect its staff and occupiers with efficient communications and process management. Locale provided a never-seen-before digital solution for any residential schemes in London which included delivery notifications and bespoke online access to apartment manuals, fixtures and fittings, and much more.
2006: DTZI joins the Locale portfolio
In early 2006, DTZ committed 350 buildings to Locale. Overnight, Locale became the largest global provider of tenant platforms, providing bespoke documentation to each building and permission-based access.
2005: Locale is born
Founded in 2005 by Guy Windsor-Lewis, Locale was originally a solution providing commercial buildings with a cloud-based, permission based property management software. It provided building documentation and tenant company information, such as leases, invoices, forms for permits and local information. His vision was to digitally transform an industry that was prone to outdated processes. The Locale platform has now evolved into multi-functional software that facilitates operations and occupier engagement. This includes smart features like visitor management, deliveries, helpdesk, amenity bookings and much more.