British Land (who own coworking brand Storey) has appointed Joanne McNamara as its new chief executive, with her set to join in November.

Joanne comes from Oxford Properties, where she spent 15 years building a European portfolio worth over £8bn. Samantha McClary of the British Council for Offices highlights this as a strong hire, both for McNamara’s track record and for adding another female CEO to the UK listed property sector alongside Helen Gordon.

In the BCO‘s latest Workspace Unwired podcast, Samantha McClary talks with Emma Roche, a Partner and coworking and office space specialist from UK law firm Greenwoods about reforms to the Landlord & Tenant Act, a ban on upward-only rent reviews, and increasingly popular new type of managed space agreement.

Samantha McClary from the British Council for Offices shares that GPE have acquired the 44k sqft building called The Gable (not to be confused with booking platform Gable) from The City of London Corporation.

The objective is to refurb and add to their 200k sqft cluster of fully managed and HQ space within the W1 area of London. GPE CEO Toby Courtauld mentioned that they aim to grow the portfolio to over 1M sqft by 2030.