Samantha McClary breaks the news that co-founder of The Office Group, Charlie Green will succeed Lawrence Hutchings as CEO of publicly-listed Workspace Group on Feb 2, 2026.

Samantha also reminds us that the group’s last full year results (year-ending 31 March 2025) showed net rental income of £122.1M and a pre-tax profit of £5.4M, and that they’re in a ‘right-sizing’ process that includes offloading more than £100M in assets.

Samantha McClary from the BCO breaks down the recent, and fairly positive, half year results from both British Land and Workspace Group.

British Land’s Simon Carter reported that they’re well positioned to continue to benefit from "the 10M sqft shortage of prime office space in Central London" and that their REIT delivered an underlying profit of £155M for the six months ending Sept 30th, up 8% on the same timeframe in 2024.

Workspace Group’s chief exec Lawrence Hutchings notes that they’ve still got their eye on regaining their "position as flex market leader". Their rental income did dip by 3% to £58.7M over the same period.

Qube, founded by Amin Hamzianpour, closed a £6.45M deal with Workspace Group comprising a £3M strategic investment and a 32,000 sqft flagship location in Shoreditch opening in 2026. The music- and content-professional workspace operator started 6 years ago in a Workspace Group studio.

Qube co-founded by Nicholas Sonuga focuses on building workspace communities for music and content creators across the UK and positions itself as a members-only studio. The company is now seeking additional London sites with minimum 20,000 sqft footprints to continue expansion.

In this episode, Brave Corp CEO, Caleb Parker, and co-host Gary Helm from MUTE sits down with Lawrence Hutchings, CEO of Workspace Group PLC to unpack an institutional mindset meeting operational reality and how the platform’s “Fix, Accelerate, Scale” strategy aims to drive occupancy, earnings, and growth.

Spaces to Places hosted a Voice of the Customer research launch breakfast featuring executives from Clockwise, Workspace Group, and CRE firms CEG, and TSP, collectively representing 80M+ sqft of UK office space.

The panel discussed post-COVID workplace transformation from collective "worker bee" culture to individual identity-driven decision-making, with data showing businesses choosing office locations based on decision-maker proximity dropped from 25% to 10% since the pandemic.

TSP revealed it abandoned its building app portfolio-wide after finding technology must integrate seamlessly into existing customer behavior rather than forcing new habits, while CEG reported its fastest growth comes from "room service" customers who customize their service bundles.