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Why Every Property Team Should Be Thinking About Food Delivery | HqO

Why Every Property Team Should Be Thinking About Food Delivery, & The 3 Areas of Consideration When Doing So

Reading Time: 6 minutes When HqO extended the opportunity to publish a guest post on their blog, we jumped at the chance to do so. Not just to celebrate the excitement of recently launching Zuul Market on the HqO platform, but also as an opportunity to continue a conversation that we love to have: an examination of which elements …

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Property Technology is the New Workplace Amenity | HqO

Property Technology is the New Workplace Amenity

Reading Time: 3 minutes After decades of chugging along with business as usual, the commercial real estate industry has recently been shaken up by a new, complementary industry: property technology. Fondly known as proptech, this gamechanger brings both powerful software and an overall mentality shift — much like financial technologies, or fintech, did for the world of finance. Property …

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Frank Talks CRE: The Constant of Change is Not a New Concept | HqO

Frank Talks CRE: The Constant of Change

Reading Time: 3 minutes Panta 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 …

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Adapting to a Modern Workforce: How Commercial Real Estate Data Guarantees Office Success | HqO

Adapting to a Modern Workforce: How Commercial Real Estate Data Guarantees Office Success

Reading Time: 4 minutes It’s no secret that commercial real estate data and trends have been evolving at a breakneck pace. In our commercial real estate outlook 2020, commercial property data was just beginning to indicate a wave of unprecedented change for the market. The more the workforce was forced out of the public realm due to global events, …

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Why Touchless Technology is CRE’s Next Big Differentiator | HqO

Why Touchless Technology is CRE’s Next Big Differentiator

Reading Time: 4 minutes In our 2021 Industry Outlook, The State of Tenant Experience, we discuss the rise of  “phygital” or omnichannel experiences for the office — or the use of technology to bridge the divide between the physical and digital worlds in a unique and interactive way for the end-user. Though relatively new to the commercial real estate …

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The Return to Work: Why We're Choosing the Office | HqO

Choosing the Office

Reading Time: 3 minutes Google 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 …

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Frank Talks CRE: The Tenant Experience Snowball | HqO

Frank Talks CRE: The Tenant Experience Snowball

Reading Time: 3 minutes The image of an accelerating, ever-enlarging snowball rolling downhill is one of the most universally understood symbols of a force; once begun, it continues to grow with a powerful, unrelenting, and unstoppable momentum of its own. A seemingly insignificant, hand-fashioned frozen sphere may start its journey unassumingly, gathering in diameter and energy as it descends …

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Commercial Access Control Systems: 3 Things You Need to Know | HqO

3 Things You Didn’t Know About Commercial Access Control Systems

Reading Time: 5 minutes The logistics around where, when, and how people work have changed drastically — especially due to the lasting impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. To triumph over constantly evolving health and safety regulations, landlords and property teams have had to navigate uncertain waters and ensure that buildings remain a safe workplace environment, as well as discover …

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What is PropTech for Commercial Real Estate? | HqO

What Is Proptech, and What Does It Mean?

Reading Time: 3 minutes If you’re new to the commercial real estate world, “proptech” is likely one of the buzzwords you’ve heard thrown around. But what is proptech for commercial real estate, and what exactly does it all mean? Here’s a quick breakdown of proptech companies, and how they are already giving commercial real estate (CRE) professionals a competitive …

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