Reading Time: 4 minutes 2022 has been a big year for HqO. After scaling globally into new markets, we worked with research firms to uncover important industry insights, and in June, we further expanded our reach by acquiring Leesman, the global leader in employee experience research. But the momentum didn’t stop there: later in the summer, we kept it …
Reading Time: 2 minutes In the first episode of The Let’s Go Show, Michael Beckerman, the CEO of CRETech, joined Chase Garbarino to discuss how they got started in commercial real estate (CRE), the recent technological challenges in the industry, and the changes to the workplace. In the latest episode, Michael returns to make bold predictions for the industry …
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Professor Andrew Baum has been thinking about and studying the real estate industry since 1970. He recently began teaching MBA students and executives at the University of Oxford, soon realizing that his students wanted to learn more about the future of the industry than technical information. Thus, his extensive research reflects a greater understanding of …
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Reading Time: 5 minutes The HqO team just finished hosting EXPERIENCE in New York City, a first-of-its-kind commercial real estate (CRE) event dedicated completely to the tenant experience. If there’s anything I learned in the past few days, it’s this: despite the challenge of running an in-person event in a post-pandemic world, seeing people excited to be together again …
Reading Time: 3 minutes Internationally acclaimed author, speaker, and management advisor Joseph Pine has been talking about the importance of meaningful experiences for a long time. In fact, he and his partner recently re-released their best-selling 1999 book, The Experience Economy, on this very topic. The book establishes that goods and services are no longer enough for consumers: companies …
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Reading Time: 3 minutes The nature of work has changed dramatically in recent months. Though every organization is taking a unique approach to the new hybrid landscape, there are still many conflicting opinions around remote work. Some employees say they are more productive, while others note working much longer hours. Whatever the case may be, there is no …
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Return to office plans are still up in the air for some landlords as the delta variant poses new health and safety challenges for the workplace. The U.K. is no exception: as of August 20th, fewer than one in five workers have returned to the physical workplace. In order to combat this uncertainty, we’ve …
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Though 70% of business leaders plan to have employees back in the office in some capacity by the fall of this year, things are not set in stone. Health and safety challenges have continued to fluctuate depending on region, and the imminent delta variant poses a risk to current state and CDC guidelines. Last …
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Since its founding in 1936, Bulfinch has dedicated itself to protecting the environment and creating stronger communities in the areas which it operates. From day one of the HqO-Bulfinch partnership, they have stood out as a leader in the industry for this very reason. A lot has changed since 1936. How does Bulfinch continue …
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Reading Time: 4 minutes A few years ago, Chase Garbarino met up with Michael Beckerman, the CEO of CREtech, in New York City. They connected instantly, and talked about everything from the emerging tenant experience category to AAU basketball. Now, as they kick off Season 2 of HqO’s Let’s Go Show podcast together, it’s in the middle of …
Reading Time: 2 minutes “Cities are the absence of physical space between people and companies. They are proximity, density, closeness. They enable us to work and play together, and their success depends on the demand for physical connection.” — Edward Glaeser, Triumph of the City At HqO, we believe that cities are humanity’s most important social product. Since the …
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Battle Shaping the Future of CRE Back in the fall of 2017, I took a trip to New York City to network and learn more about the commercial real estate (CRE) industry’s relationship with technology. After a few days of darting back and forth across Manhattan, I ended up having a beer with a …
Reading Time: 3 minutes Recently, we released our commercial real estate outlook for the upcoming year, The State of TeX in 2021. With all the changes that the global health pandemic has brought to the CRE and proptech industries in 2020, a few emerging commercial real estate trends have stood out from the rest. We recently sat down with …
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Reading Time: 4 minutes When we released our commercial real estate forecast last year, The State of TeX in 2020, none of our predictions could have anticipated the complete digital revolution that was to come. Due to the onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the interest, demand, and competition for tenant experience technologies erupted at a breakneck pace. Now, …
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Reading Time: 5 minutes When our CEO Chase Garbarino announced HqO’s $34.2 million Series B funding round back in December of 2019, he stated: “It has been two years since we launched our first version of the HqO platform. At the time, we believed (and experienced first-hand in our offices of old) that commercial real estate needed to become …