Yardi has officially announced the acquisition of both Deskpass and Hubble. This strategic move expands Yardi’s offerings in the flexible workspace market and strengthens its existing solutions, including Yardi Commercial, Yardi Kube and CoworkingCafe.

The acquisition will enable Yardi to provide a wider-reaching suite of tools for managing coworking spaces, from operations through to marketing to lead generation and revenue insights.

Questions to ponder:
1. Will commission structures on these platforms change, to bring them more in-line with CoworkingCafe’s no commission approach? And if they do, what does it mean for competitors for each platform like Liquidspace, FlowSpace, Desana, Upflex and Gable?
2. Does this create any longer-term ties between Industrious (who had acquired a majority of Deskpass recently) and Yardi?
3. What does this mean in relation to Anant’s big plan for a global interconnected booking experience?
4. Who will be joining the TWIC podcast to answer these and other Qs for you?

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Partnering together, Flowspace and Techspace are enabling users to book fractional offices by the day.

With pricing being dynamically set based on supply and demand, we’ll definitely be watching to see if this kind of offering takes off, or the duo expand into recurring fractional office models we’ve explore deeply before.

Harry Wilson Halberg from FlowSpace share a recent price change that’s pretty interesting. They’re promising their app users to match the direct price of any space on their platform, plus a discount for purchases made with credits or through their subscription.

This is an interesting move as more and more booking/aggregation platforms shift their focus securing from supply to locking down demand.

Hayri Demirçapa shares that FlowSpace have also added booking of private day offices to their platform.

This increasingly popular product type sits alongside ‘traditional’ flex space access, and next to on-demand bookings of things like meeting rooms and hot desks, and can be seen popping into more and more booking platforms.

Hayri Demirçapa drops some interesting FlowSpace booking data. In 2023, they saw a 205% increase in desk bookings, with the average booking length being 6.5 hours for 1.7 people. Additionally over 75% booked less than 24 hours before arrival.