Reflections on UIC Campus Architecture and Mixed Use Development

In this day and age of elaborate mixed use developments and conceptual community developments, it’s good to look at great and innovative models for inspiration. One such model is the UIC Campus in Chicago, just south of 290 and west of the Loop.  “A stone dropped in a pond of water,” was the metaphor architect […]

Art is a Catalyst for Communities

It’s been known for centuries…millennia even. People have been irresistibly drawn to human expression and all art forms. We are touched by the universality of it, and the enjoyment it provides. The arts speak to people across race, gender and socioeconomic status.  Forward-looking real estate developers have often used art to help define the experience […]

Intelligence Runs Deep

Virtual Real Estate Tour Platform Advantage 7: Be Agile — Learn, Adapt, Excel When you know, you know. No longer do brokers need to wait for a long production process or the big marketing campaign. Our Virtual Tour Selling Platform can deploy decisively, then leap in tight formation as you dive in to understand your […]

Take Pride

Virtual Real Estate Tour Platform Advantage 6: Make the Media Experience Rich Now you can take pride in how you dynamically move through a property.  We’ve been sighted getting a little wild with FPV drone fly-throughs, still photos & renderings, animations and 360 photos for dramatic overviews of lobbies, amenities and outdoor areas.  Our Virtual […]

Introducing Strewn

Presenting Strewn…a retailer and florist shop in Pilsen that is just what the word suggests – euphoric randomness. It’s a store and business with wild bursts of exciting energy – the kind of energy you find in a natural flower bed or eclectic bouquet that goes far beyond daisies and roses.  Torque helped brand this […]

The Food Chain is Yours

Virtual Real Estate Tour Platform Advantage 5: Expect All-in-One Life can be good at the top of the food chain. It’s where all the pieces of the hunt come together. Do you need a map, or an overview of the neighborhood? Perhaps a tenant testimonial or floor plan? We’re believers in gathering the selling tools […]

Outlast the Rest

Virtual Real Estate Tour Platform Advantage 4: You learned to be a control freak from long experience.Present your way and live to close another day. As a top-performing broker you have your own methods, and want to run meetings your way. No good salesperson would ever walk through the same script, so now you can […]

Rise Above

Virtual Real Estate Tour Platform Advantage 3: Be Powerful. Be Equipped. Soar above the crowd by putting powerful digital presentation tools in your hands, from dynamic drone shots to detailed amenities and features, all accessible via easy navigation. No two sales meetings are the same, and with Virtual Tour Selling Tools you can move through […]

Lead the Pack

Virtual Real Estate Tour Platform Advantage 2: Scale and Hunt Rapidly Any virtual tour worth its salt is composed of many pieces. Getting it all together is like mastering the strategy of the hunt.  We advocate jumping in fast vs. indulging your inner perfectionist by tweaking a sales pitch for 8 weeks. And all your […]

It’s All in the Reach

Virtual Real Estate Tour Platform Advantage 1: Connect Earlier and Reach Further Leasing teams can always use some extra reach into the brokers world. Who wouldn’t want an excuse or compelling reason to talk sooner (and more often) with someone further out in the search process. It’s that quick and impromptu tour born of broker […]