Property entrepreneur Martin Skinner dies | Online

Skinner established and ran London developer Motivated Asset Management and was a pioneer of micro condominium developments. Inspired was a single of the premier firms endeavor workplace-to-residential conversions in the money throughout the mid-2010s and converted 5 Croydon office buildings to micro-flats.

Skinner also acted as a non-government chairman at The Collective, the UK’s largest co-living service provider, and worked with the British Assets Federation to interpret its published definitions for micro-dwelling.

Nonetheless, in August 2019 he was jailed for 22 weeks for careless driving right after a higher-pace crash that still left a passenger in his automobile with critical injuries.

Months afterwards his house company collapsed into administration. Skinner mentioned that the firm experienced been poorly strike by Brexit and government adjustments to the buy-to-enable sector.

Away from the business enterprise environment, Skinner, who was named on House Week’s ’40 beneath 40’ checklist in 2015, was involved in a variety of charity events at conferences which includes Mipim.

Just four days ago, Skinner posted on social media that he was in Dubai “to get offers done”.