Cat Johnson hosts a Coworking Convo on attracting and keeping great community managers, with Lauren Urlacher (Fellow Coworking), Tracy Wilson (Pacific Workplaces), Jessie Hathcock (The Loading Dock) and Hector Kolonas (This Week in Coworking / Syncaroo). Live only; no recording.

If your CM hire is half ops, half hospitality, this panel is built for that unicorn search.

Oneder shares that Airbnb is branching into workspace and has selected it as one of the first partners. Day passes, day offices and meeting rooms at Kindling (White City) and Channel (King’s Cross) are now bookable on the platform.

Airbnb as a workspace distribution channel is a big deal for day-use demand. From what I can tell, the first focus is on selling day passes, but worth watching which operators get listed next, and how they may compete with native booking stacks around meeting rooms and offsites. Since seeing this post, I also saw that work.life, were also one of the first partners.

François Viruly breaks down South Africa’s premium (P-grade) office market: national stock held at ~2.3M sqm over the past year, while take-up fell ~20,000 sqm (partly from regrades to A). Gauteng holds ~78% of premium stock, with Sandton alone at ~34%, Rosebank 11% and Century City 5%. Strongest occupied-space gains: Bellville (+42,052 m²), Century City (+19,090 m²) and Sandton (+14,841 m²). SAPOA’s Q2 2026 survey put national vacancy at 12.1%, down from 13.3% a year earlier.

Demand is selective, not fading: premium is consolidating in a few high-quality nodes even as overall vacancies ease. Same pattern flex operators see when enterprises chase the best buildings, not just any empty desks.

Flexspace AI is hosting a demand-generation event on July 16 with co-hosts Sarah Mourtada Sich of Work.Life and Jamie Stuart of OSiT (Office Space in Town), joined by Brave Corporation. The focus is attracting the right leads, not just more of them: what is working, what changed, and where growth opportunities sit.

If your pipeline is full of tire-kickers, this is the session: quality of lead over volume of lead.