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Growners<\/a> is a specialist real estate dealer located at Lasne in Walloon Brabant. The company\u2019s core business consists of buying office buildings and warehouses that are at least 10 years old and located on the outskirts of Brussels (because mobility is at the heart of their thinking). It then recycles or subdivides theses properties into a wide range of lots ranging from 50 m\u00b2 to 8,000 m\u00b2, before putting them back on the market to be sold or leased. Because becoming the proud owner of premises is now very much part of the offices of the future\u2026 Anyway, so much for the introductions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is homeworking likely to be the future?<\/strong> <\/strong>Eric Bastin: \u201cI don\u2019t think so. Having to work from home is one thing, but deliberate homeworking, \u00e0 la carte, that people actually choose to do, is quite another. They\u2019re apples and pears \u2013 you simply can\u2019t compare the two. Numerous surveys have shown that people will gradually return to work in the office. In fact, many homeworkers are looking forward to getting back to the office so that they can avoid feeling isolated. They want to enjoy face-to-face exchanges with their workmates and feel appreciated by management, etc. Interestingly, this unprecedented health crisis has had an unexpected positive effect by revealing the extent to which the office is somewhere to socialise. It needs to stay that way, too \u2013 otherwise I fear for the mental health of some people who are currently working from home!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But travelling for and from work takes up so much of the day\u2026<\/strong> <\/strong>\u201cYou\u2019re right. Electing to set up a business in a congested city centre is crazy.  That\u2019s why 90% of the properties we offer for sale are located on the outskirts of town, usually close to a station, cycle route or the Brussels ring road. Being out of town is a plus for mobility.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some surveys talk about workers making a gradual return to offices. But isn\u2019t that a major challenge for companies? <\/strong> <\/strong>\u201cYou bet! It\u2019s one of the most significant challenges that businesses will face once the crisis is over. We\u2019ll need to totally change the way the offices of yesterday once looked into an attractive working environment that is actually a place where normal life goes on. That\u2019s why we commissioned Alternativ to create a \u201cshow unit\u201d in one of our buildings in Diegem. The aim of this show unit, which has been set up in an internal area as big as a station concourse, is to show our clients that company offices can be at the very heart of wellbeing in the workplace \u2013 provided we pay the required attention to the way they are designed and fitted out.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Belgians may love their bricks and mortar, but they\u2019re not necessarily keen to invest in the tertiary sector!<\/strong><\/strong> \u201cSure, but Covid-19 has inescapably prompted companies to ask themselves about the future of the office.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, a very gradual return to work isn\u2019t something of a conundrum<\/strong>? <\/strong>\u201cAt Growners we pay great attention to the location of offices \u2013 and hence the ease of accessing them \u2013 and offer them at prices that are highly competitive. Of course, \u201crecycling\u201d buildings means they cost a whole lot less than new premises in the city center. Better still, we offer spaces that are tailored to fit demand. Our clients are even able to envisage decentralising their work units to different locations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\u2019s your target audience?<\/strong> <\/strong>\u201cScale-up companies and SMEs (employing 2 to 100 people) looking to purchase an office that can be financed by their own business. This enables them to increase their property assets. Our business model means an SME can become the owner of its own offices at a level equivalent to repaying a bank loan. It\u2019s a win-win situation,\u201d concludes Eric Bastin with his trademark enthusiasm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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