Our Areas of Expertise

Urban Rehabilitation and Niche Real Estate
Sustainable Hospitality and Tourism
Territory, Leisure and Culture Networks

Meet our Team

We're a multidisciplinary team, with highly skilled and experienced professionals. We're in the national and international market.

Our Projects

Any development process is an opportunity to raise each person, community, territory's awareness and commitment in building their future.

Specialized knowledge and multidisciplinary skills

ESSENTIA is a consulting company that specializes in Urban Rehabilitation and Theme Real Estate, Sustainable Hospitality and Tourism as well as Territory, Culture and Leisure Networks, operating in the national and international markets since 1996. We provide a range of services based on the expertise of a group of professionals with multidisciplinary skills and we work with a broad range of partners with whom we have developed innovative projects.

“In this launch of Nexity’s activity in Portugal, Essentia has been an important partner in the analysis of opportunities and in the development of projects. Essentia has a well-led, organized and multidisciplinary team that, in addition to bringing great experience, market knowledge and competence, also seeks to innovate and be creative in addressing the challenges ahead, being a great asset in the development of our projects.”

Fernando Vasco Costa

Diretor Geral Portugal - Nexity

We were very pleased to count on our member company Essentia to work on an intense case study with a group of Executive Students from renowned Dutch Business School Tilburg Institute of Applied Sciences (TIAS). Essentia managed to involve many relevant stakeholders in the research, which aimed to investigate whether current hospitality education satisfies the requirements of rapidly changing practices in the tourism industry.

Marjon van Dinther

Executive Director of the Dutch Portuguese Chamber of Commerce

In good collaboration with Essentia an investigation was conducted to determine the soft skills an employee of concept hotels should possess. The study includes an advice for senior management of concept hotels to create a learning environment.
It was an honor to perform this research in Lisbon and particularly with Essentia.

Eric Tielemans

Global manager PD&E, Schunk XYcarb Technology

Rua do Crucifixo

Urban Rehabilitation and Niche Real Estate

2017-2020

Rua do Crucifixo

Urban Rehabilitation and Niche Real Estate

2017-2020

Designed by architect Miguel Nogueira Junior, this edifice was constructed at the beginning of 20th century under the Belle Epoque influence. In 1925 it was purchased by Alves dos Reis, leader of the largest money counterfeiting scheme in Portugal’s history. In 1958, following interior r...

Distribution Network in Luanda, Angola

Territory, Leisure and Culture Networks

2004

Produced a plan to intervene in Luanda’s - Angola´s distribution network, namely through the implementation of a network of retail / wholesale markets.