The REX Effect: How Kilroy Realty Closed the Experience Gap at 100 First, San Francisco
Reading Time: 4 minutesHow Kilroy transformed a downtown tower into a living, breathing experience ecosystem
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The Great Real Estate Reset: Why Trophy Assets Are Winning the Post-Pandemic Market
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Real Estate Reset Has Begun After years of uncertainty, the commercial real estate (CRE) market is finally finding its rhythm again. Cities like New York and Boston are leading the charge — trophy assets are outperforming, leasing volumes are rising, and developers are breaking ground for the first time since 2020. This recovery isn’t …
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From Office Floors to Data Floors: How Cities Power the AI Era
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Real Estate Market Is Missing the Signal If you want to understand the next decade of commercial real estate (CRE), stop tracking vacancy rates and start tracking voltage. The global AI boom isn’t just a software revolution — it’s a physical one. Every large language model, chatbot, and digital twin needs compute power, and …
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The Data Blackout: Why Real Estate Needs Smarter Systems
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhen Washington goes quiet, commercial real estate (CRE) starts guessing. A government shutdown doesn’t just pause paychecks — it cuts the power to the real estate data systems that keep the market breathing. Overnight, agencies like the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Census Bureau stop publishing the data that lenders, investors, and developers depend …
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AI in CRE: Why AI Factories Are the New Strategic Infrastructure
Reading Time: 2 minutesNot too long ago, railroads reshaped economies and cities. Today, a similar shift is underway, but instead of steel and locomotives, the tracks are fiber and silicon. AI in commercial real estate (CRE) is no longer just a buzzworthy concept. It’s becoming the backbone of economic growth, with “AI factories”, data-driven hubs that power machine …
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AI in CRE: Why Miami Could Be the First Quantum City
Reading Time: 2 minutesCommercial real estate (CRE) has always been more than bricks and leases — it’s a mirror of economic and cultural shifts. Today, that mirror reflects something radically new: the rise of cities as programmable systems. And nowhere is this clearer than in Miami commercial real estate, a market many now see as the prototype for …
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Conversations with B. Joseph Pine II
Reading Time: 5 minutesB. Joseph Pine II Best-selling author, speaker, and management advisor B. Joseph Pine II is an internationally acclaimed author, speaker, and management advisor to Fortune 500 companies and entrepreneurial start-ups alike. He is a Co-Founder of Strategic Horizons LLP, a thinking studio dedicated to helping businesses conceive and design new ways of adding value to …
The Office as a Magnet
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn September 2021, leading commercial real estate firm CBRE released a study on the global trends shaping the future of the office. “Consolidation,” the report reads, “remains a focus for many multinationals. In EMEA, 40% of companies expect their portfolios to contract over the next three years, compared with a third who anticipate expansion. In …
Opportunities for the Office in 2022
Reading Time: 3 minutesOnly a few years ago, commercial real estate (CRE) was all about tradition. The industry depended on long-term, sometimes decades-long leases. Property demand was measured by location and physical amenities, meaning that owners and operators would invest in buildings in or around central business districts. If the buildings weren’t located in a city center, they …
92% of Landlords Believe Employees Want More From Their Buildings – And They’re Prepared to Deliver
Reading Time: 2 minutesLandlords investing in tenant experience teams and tech-based communication tools Fresh off the heels of HqO’s survey of corporate employers, we’re pleased to release key findings from our commissioned survey of select international landlords, all of which have at least 1M square feet of commercial real estate property. The top-line takeaways? Overall, today’s landlords are …
Companies with 1.6T in Combined Revenue Speak to Hybrid Work Disconnect in HqO Survey
Reading Time: 3 minutesNearly 90% of employers surveyed have implemented some type of hybrid work arrangement, but overall they remain dissatisfied with how these models are working To learn more about today’s workplace experience and emerging office trends, HqO partnered with leading research firm Verdantix to conduct exclusive interviews with executives from leading companies across the globe. We …
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Navigating the Tenant Experience Technology Buyer’s Process
Reading Time: 3 minutesIt’s a tale as old as time: commercial real estate (CRE) leaders have spent years searching for ways to attract and retain highly sought-after tenants, increase office value, and inform their investments to create efficiencies in building costs and operations. In today’s world, accomplishing these feats begins with focusing on the workplace experience. By making the …
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TAMI vs. FIRE Tenants: Who They Are and Why They Matter
Reading Time: 3 minutesIf this past year has taught us anything, it’s that major change is already underway for the commercial real estate (CRE) industry. CRE’s recent digital transformation has shed light on several important focus areas for office landlords and property teams, such as re-evaluating a portfolio’s technology stack and, more importantly, getting to know the tenants …
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Frank Talks CRE: The Constant of Change
Reading Time: 3 minutesPanta rhei. So observed Heraclitus of Ephesus approximately 2,500 years ago. Literally translated from ancient Greek as “everything flows” or “all things are in flux,” the philosophical concept of panta rhei is perhaps more resonant to us in the familiar vernacular, “there is nothing so constant as change.” The commercial real estate industry has been …
Choosing the Office
Reading Time: 3 minutesGoogle has become well-known as one of the best places to work in the world. The company focuses on the employee experience better than any other — its offices are amenity rich, featuring coffee bars and restaurants, gyms, massage services, dry cleaning pick-up and drop-off, and so much more. It is truly an experience worth …