Chris Sees reflects on 16 years of Hoxton Mix, which began as a Shoreditch coworking space the same week as TechHub and now serves over 100,000 businesses and powers registered office services for 150+ accounting firms and fintechs like Tide and Crunch.

He credits a Y Combinator interview with Sam Altman and Justin Kan for reframing the company as API-first business infrastructure, and says it is now building AI-powered tools.

Virtual office and registered-office services are (un)quietly becoming an infrastructure and API play, not just a coworking add-on. Worth watching how operators productize compliance services.

Ewelina Kałużna shares that Business Link, part of the Skanska Group, is opening a new Warsaw location adding 2,770 sqm across three floors in Studio A, Skanska’s latest development, recently sold to Stena Real Estate.

It complements the existing Business Link in Studio B for more than 6,000 sqm combined, with two floors of serviced offices and a ground-floor conference and event hub designed by MIXD.

At GCUC UK, Patrick Kennedy and Phoebe Reilly reported that 42% of Manchester office transactions are now flex, yet operators say broker-generated leads dropped roughly 50% in 2024.

Scott Dickson argues AI search tools like ChatGPT and Copilot are the main culprit, bypassing broker marketplace sites by connecting searchers directly to operators. Deals are still getting done though, just through a much wider mix of channels including direct, traditional agents with flex desks, city-specialist brokers, individual brokers like Jimmie Brennan and Jason McDermott, and platforms like Seek.