Nick Hill reminds us that Knotel are winning deals across the UK, by sharing a fully-managed project in London’s West End.

ICYMI: Knotel is now part of Newmark.

In this episode, Brave Corp CEO, Caleb Parker, moderates a panel (with leaders from LOOM by Merlin Properties, Newmark, Sutega, Assembly Buildings, and the World Trade Center Barcelona) discussing how operators and landlords are turning buildings into workplaces people choose, why OPEX in people can beat CAPEX in marble, and how amenity strategy, programming, technology, and brand convert into office value.

Optality, Newmark’s flex space booking platform that’s powered by Upflex, shared their first annual results.

In summary the app led to $1M+ in total contract value across 27 signed contracts, over $600k we committed to on-demand bookings throughout the year, and a user-base of 1.5k individuals.

Mike LaRosa shares a post by Hannah Fisch about why & how Newmark is seeing some companies adapt creative and flexible hybrid models in order to create optionality for their employees.

Upflex announced their Series A funding round. Although we already knew WeWork was participating, there’s also some other interesting firms joining the platform’s term sheet. Newmark and Cushman & Wakefield participated as strategic investors, joining previous investors and making the total funding raised to date $34.1M.

Christophe Garnier, CEO & Co-Founder, notes that the funding will be leveraged to expand their tech and team as they aim to "set the standard" for what accessing the future of workplace feels like.