We believe you, your businesses and legacy are better protected when you have a partner who fully understands your world and works across it.
We believe in total cost transparency with no hidden commissions, ever.
We believe your risks should be properly reviewed each year, with site visits and in-person meetings.
We believe your policies should be designed specifically to your risks to eliminate gaps and overlaps.
Partners by nature
Realty has its foundations in Grosvenor, shaped over decades of partnership, giving us a unique approach to understanding and protecting real estate, rural economy and private client risks. This heritage provides perspective that is aligned entirely with your interests.
Different because of legacy
Realty was established in 1950 by Grosvenor to help review, coordinate and optimise their insurance needs across the estate.
Initially focused on their London properties, Realty’s expertise and partnership approach deepened as Grosvenor expanded; developing solutions for listed buildings as they underwent modernisation and retrofit, and major new build projects both on the London estate and across the UK.
Protecting more of what matters
Over time, the interconnected nature of the Grosvenor family’s assets, including rural estates and land holdings, established the whole client profile that underpins how we look after our clients today. All delivered with discretion, trust and a deep understanding of what matters most.
In recent decades, Realty has expanded to offer this partnership approach to a wider range of clients who need specialist, specific risk management advice and solutions. Realty’s clients now include businesses across the UK real estate and rural economy sectors, including:
- Real estate owners, investors, managers and developers
- Rural estates with heritage properties
- Diverse commercial operations ranging from tourism andleisure to farming, food production and sustainable energy generation.
Choosing partnership across generations
Today, our clients value Realty’s partnership approach and benefit from our belief that risk advisory and insurance placement is more than a transactional purchase – it is protection for your business, assets and legacy.
We believe in transparency and accountability and abide by the highest standards of governance. We remain a values-led business with integrity, respect and trust standing as the hallmarks of everything we do.
A multi-generational mindset
The Grosvenor family’s ancestry can be traced back almost 1,000 years. Its association with London property began over 340 years ago, in 1677, when land to the west of the City of London came into the family through the marriage of Sir Thomas Grosvenor to Mary Davies.
The beginning of an enduring estate
What were once pastures, swamps and orchards were transformed into London’s fashionable Mayfair in the 1720s and elegant Belgravia a hundred years later. From the 1950s onwards, the estate expanded and diversified internationally, and the Grosvenor name became synonymous with world-class real estate.
Today, Grosvenor is an international organisation. It remains active in urban property across many of the world’s leading cities, while also expanding its investment activities in the food and agtech sector, alongside a continued focus on rural estate management and philanthropy.
When vision meets ambition
Across the centuries, Grosvenor has been committed to high standards, with an emphasis on ambition and innovation. This has driven the delivery of lasting commercial, social and environmental benefit – meeting today’s needs while taking responsibility for those of future generations.
At Realty, we are grounded in and share these values. We view risk management and insurance as enablers for our clients to do the same. We know that our clients’ businesses, families and legacies will evolve across generations. That perspective sets the tone and ambition of the service we provide.
Meet your partners
Realty is led by a team of highly experienced insurance professionals. Each of us is proud to be part of Grosvenor and take their values of integrity, respect and trust as our own.
