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The four ‘essentials’ of #FutureProofRealEstate - how we discovered that the success of every real estate asset class requires the same four things.

The office real estate industry is set to be transformed. 
 
In the world of work and the workplace there is a fundamental misunderstanding going on. Many people are talking about changes to how we work, post pandemic, as being merely an acceleration of trends that were already underway. They are not. In fact, we are witnessing the start of a revolution that will utterly transform the dynamics of the industry.

Why the real estate industry needs to stop kidding itself about what is possible with #NoOffice.

Every company needs talented, skilled people. Over the years companies try to employ more and more talented, skilled people, that fit their requirements, business model and working practices. They continually optimise for the market they are in, particularly the larger ones. They become more and more efficient, more and more ‘Six Sigma’ - lean, mean business machines. And it works. Or at least it does right up until the moment it does not.

Coronavirus has hijacked the stage. This years play in real estate was going to be ‘Climate Change and Sustainability’ but now it’s ‘Covid-19, all the way down’.

First published as a blog post for the British Property Federation - 2nd April 2020.
https://www.bpf.org.uk/media-listing/blog-posts/work-workplace-and-covid-19