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.

Wayco has opened its fourth coworking location in Valencia, a fully renovated six-storey building called Wayco Pizarro with over 2,000 sqm and 209 workstations in the city centre.

Founded in 2013, Wayco now operates four Valencia locations totalling around 8,450 sqm of workspace.

Dutch flex office operator HNK has opened a new 10k sqm flagship flexible workspace in Rotterdam, its third location in the city and tenth in the Netherlands. The seven-storey building, originally constructed in 1981, has been fully repositioned into a hospitality-led workspace, according to Robert Sparreboom

HNK is owned by real estate company NSI and operates across Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, and The Hague.

In this episode of All Points West, Karl West speaks with James Lowery, CEO of essensys, about his journey from co-founding British Land’s Storey brand to leading the tech firm, and how his background as a GB decathlete shaped his leadership style.

ASX-listed flexible workspace operator WOTSO (ASX: WOT) opened its first Auckland CBD location in early September 2025 in partnership with landlord Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei Whai Rawa. The space occupies ground floor premises in AECOM House, an eight-storey A-Grade building in the Te Tōangaroa eastern CBD precinct, featuring 13 offices, 14 coworking desks, and two meeting rooms. The fitout utilized XFrame’s patented wall framing technology that can be installed or deconstructed in hours for reuse, supporting circular economy principles.

WOTSO now operates 35 flexible workspaces across Australia and New Zealand with over 6,000 members, and plans to open its fourth New Zealand location in Whangārei in early 2026.