We have received a lot of emails and tweets from people who wanted to see more of the office and how we set it up (btw thanks for all the kind words for the new office!). Inspired from a blog post from 37signals we decided to share some more details and explain our ideas.

First, check the video that we have taken today. As you can see the space is not yet finished but you will get a good impression of its unique character:

We have shared an office with our friends at nfon and hetras and this will be our first ‘own’ office. Actually, it was not easy to find a space like this. We have worked together with several real estate brokers and have probably visited 100+ offices until we found this space. Funny enough, we got it without an agent (saved us a significant amount of money) directly from the landlord (thanks to Clarissa who not only runs our Recruiting but also watched the real estate market in Munich closely!).

The landlord has planned to refurbish the space but hasn’t done yet. And since we felt in love with the space immediately we asked him if we could do the planning – which he agreed. We decided to hire an Architect and after a lot of discussions she came up with the following plan (click on the plan to enlarge it and see the illustrations):

As you can tell from the plan we have one large open space plus the usual meeting room for up to 10-14 people. I like the phone booths a lot: In the current office we always had problems with the noise when people were doing online meetings and webinars. This will be solved now.

What I like in particular (besides the great atmosphere of this loft office) is the gym. Well, it’s not a fully equipped gym but the space will have a lot of toys and you can do a little work out or just have an informal meeting or discussion sitting on the big medicine balls.

Stay tuned as we will update the blog with more pictures when we move in in a couple of weeks.

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We will move to a new office in August and are all very excited about this new space. Currently, we are in the middle of doing the space planning and interior design (Pics 1+2; Mike, Max and the Architect) as the space will be refurbished just for us.

The office itself has the typical exposed brick and industrial look you would expect from an office of a hip and cool IT company (which we think we are). Very convenient: It is just around the corner of the current one. Perfectly located in the city center of Munich and within walking distance to public transportation. We can’t wait to move in!

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It’s great to have all of our customers engaged with our support team regularly. As we add new users to the Propertybase family, we want to make sure we have enough capacity to continue to serve our customers with the same levels of service that they are used to. So after a long search for the ideal candidate we have added a new team member here at Propertybase.

So, on behalf of the whole team, I’d like to introduce Mr. James Ibanez. James comes to us fresh out of University as a trained engineer who has already shown a great amount of enthusiasm for learning our Products and providing world class service to our customers. Hailing from sunny Puerto Rico, James brings with him not only a love of and interest in technology, but the ability to provide support in Spanish as well as English.We think he’ll be a great addition as we work towards our goal of providing a truly global solution for Real Estate CRM. So, let’s meet James!

Brian: James, what first interested you in Propertybase?

James: What really brought Propertybase out to me from other companies was the fact that it is a truly unique product with a great close team that really works together. The potential in this company is amazing and I wanted to be on board to really push the product forward.

Brian: How did you end up all the way over in Germany?

James: Well, a year before I graduated I travelled through Europe and visited Germany. I really got in touch with the people, the language and how life in general was lived here. After graduating I decided I needed a to get out of my comfort zone and really push to be a successful independent professional. I decided Germany is where I was gonna start!

Brian: What are your goals for providing support to Propertybase’s customers?

James: My number one goal is to keep our customers satisfied with our product and our service. I plan on committing to every technical problem and finding a solution that meets the customers needs. I would also like to connect with the Spanish speaking customers and deliver the same quality support.

Thanks James, welcome aboard! So, don’t be surprised when a new name answers your support emails, and hey, if you want to submit requests in Spanish, have at it!

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