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The office has more or less always served as a home base for real estate brokerages. But it’s never been a place that agents and brokers have been tied to all day.
Between showings, client meetings, inspections and more, agents and brokers have become accustomed to working flexibly in different places and from mobile devices. In the wake of the pandemic largely driving people away from the office altogether, a question on many people’s minds as the country returns to a new normal is, will real estate ever make a full return to the office?
The consensus among those in the industry seems to be, sort-of. The office is still useful and necessary, but how people use it moving forward might not be the same as before the pandemic.
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A lot of predictions have floated around recently about what the future of the office holds now that so many businesses have transitioned to working remotely in the era of COVID-19. While some have suggested that many offices many be shuttered permanently, three brokers who spoke during a panel at Inman Connect Now on Thursday entitled “Will 2021 Be The Death of The Office?” disagreed with that sentiment.
Although the pandemic has made many people reevaluate their office space, Craig McClelland, COO of Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Metro Brokers, argued that because of the significant investment an office represents, any business should be evaluating that space on an annual basis not just during a pandemic.