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Brokers
How Listing Brokers Get Paid on Flex
A listing broker’s exclusive pays on one event, a signed lease. Flex offices are licensed, not leased, so the broker earns nothing on a flex floor. Why that kept brokers away from flex, and the one-page rider that fixes it.
Product
The Flex Revenue Test Fit: Every Office on Your Floor Plan, Priced
The test fit and the flex pro forma have lived in separate files for years. The Flex Revenue Test Fit puts them on one page: every private office on the floor plan priced on its own market, with the rent roll beside it.
Industry History
Flex vs Coworking: Why One Industry Has Two Names
Coworking was named by the people who built it, flex by the people who count the space. A dated history of both words, what each one measures, and why the industry still argues about which to use.
Operations
Ten Things Experienced Coworking Operators Have Figured Out
Ten operating habits experienced coworking operators keep arriving at, on pricing, people, programming and follow-up, worth building in from day one whether a space is open or still on paper.
Market Demand
The 30% That Never Was: How Flex’s Most Famous Number Drifted
The claim that 30% of office space will be flexible by 2030 is the most quoted number in coworking. It began as a measure of corporate portfolio preference, and over ten years of retelling it became a forecast for the whole market. Here is each step, and why flex is still only about 2% of office space.
Feasibility Screen
Is Your Class B Office a Viable Flex Conversion? A 20-Minute Test
A fast, structured way to tell whether a Class B or C office building is a realistic flexible workspace conversion before you spend on a full study.
Feasibility
What a Real Coworking Feasibility Study Actually Includes
What a genuine coworking feasibility study covers, and why a pro forma alone is not enough to commit capital to a flex conversion.
Revenue Model
Flex Office Revenue Stacking, Explained
How flexible workspace revenue stacks beyond desks through memberships, day passes, meeting rooms, virtual office, and events to lift NOI.
NOI Comparison
Flex vs Traditional Lease: An Honest NOI Comparison
A side-by-side look at the net operating income of holding office space for a traditional tenant versus operating a flexible workspace model.
Vacancy Economics
What Empty Office Floors Actually Cost You Every Month
The real monthly carry of vacant office space for landlords, and the breakeven math for converting empty floors to flexible workspace.
NOI + Valuation
Flex Office NOI Valuation Framework
How flex office strategies can improve NOI and asset valuation through vacancy conversion, revenue density, operating discipline, and conservative underwriting.
Enterprise Demand
Corporate Coworking in the U.S.: How Enterprise Demand Is Changing the Market
Enterprise companies now account for over 30% of U.S. coworking revenue. Analyzing how Fortune 500 adoption, private office demand, and multi-city access programs are permanently restructuring the flex workspace market.
Market Trends
Europe’s Coworking Scene in 2025: Growth, Enterprise Demand, and Premium Trends
What Europe’s 2025 coworking growth, enterprise demand, management agreements, and premium flex workspace trends signal for operators, landlords, and investors.
Revenue Model
The Hidden Economics of Flex Office Revenue Stacking
How flexible office models use revenue stacking to improve NOI, reduce single-tenant risk, and turn office square footage into a multi-layer monetization system.
Landlord Strategy
How Coworking Spaces Increase Property Value for Landlords
How coworking and flex workspace can increase property value for landlords through NOI growth, faster absorption, amenity value, revenue diversity, and stronger asset positioning.
Framework
The Intelligent Flexible Asset Model
Discover the Intelligent Flexible Asset Model framework. Convert office buildings from static structures into adaptive operating systems with our six-layer stack.
Industry Outlook
Coworking Occupancy Benchmarks and 2026 Flex Trends
Why revenue per desk is replacing occupancy as the metric that matters in 2026, and what the shift means for operators and landlords.
Space Planning
Optimal Private Office Mix in Flex Conversion: Maximizing NOI
Strategic real estate underwriting guidelines for commercial landlords converting office space to flexible coworking, detailing the optimal ratio of private suites to shared desks to optimize Net Operating Income.
Developer Strategy
Why Developers Should Add Coworking: Flexible Leasing Drives Higher Yields
Why commercial real estate developers should integrate coworking and flexible workspace layers to optimize spatial density, stack high-margin revenue, and increase Net Operating Income (NOI).
Mixed-Use
Why Flex Office Is Becoming the Strategic Heart of Mixed-Use Developments
Why flex office and coworking are becoming core value creation engines inside modern mixed-use developments, supporting retail, residential, office leasing, and asset value.
Market Trends
2025 Coworking Trends: Management Agreements, Niche Markets, and Service Ecosystems
Analyzing the commercial real estate shift toward asset-light management agreements, hyper-specialized niche community spaces, and hospitality-first service ecosystems in 2025.
Space Planning
Spec Suites vs. Coworking Business: Creating a Mix for a Truly Flexible Building
Spec suites, coworking and traditional leases are three products, not one decision. How to mix them in one building so every kind of tenant has a door.
Operations
Are Coworking Spaces Profitable? The Role of Coworking Space Managers
Explore how effective coworking space managers blend community engagement with sales strategies to drive profitability. Discover the essential role these managers play in ensuring coworking spaces not only foster vibrant communities but also meet financial goals, answering the pivotal question: Are coworking spaces profitable?
Conversion
Vacancy to Viability: The Coworking Model as a Solution for Empty Office Buildings
Office vacancy is now an economic and civic problem, not a leasing problem. What the coworking model can and cannot do for an empty building, and where it has worked.
Operations
Community Manager 3.0: Why Your Space May Need a Coworking Executive
Community management grew up. Why a maturing space needs a coworking executive who runs revenue, operations and culture together, and how the role differs from the host it replaced.
Market Trends
WeWork’s Bankruptcy: A Historical Paradox in Coworking
This morning, a coworking client sent me a Reuters article about the impending bankruptcy of WeWork. As someone who has been in the coworking industry since 2008, two years prior to WeWork, and whose businesses are tied to coworking and workplace culture, I feel compelled to comment on this situation.
Business Model
Rethinking Office Real Estate: The Shift to Micro Leasing
The coworking model is a micro leasing strategy: shorter terms, smaller units and a service mindset, in place of the multi-year lease that no longer fits how businesses take space.
Developer Strategy
Build Your Own Coworking Operator Brand (and Business): A Strategic Move for Traditional Office Developers
Why a developer who owns the building may want to own the operator brand too: control of the identity, the member relationship and the asset, instead of handing them to a third party.
Urban Economics
How Coworking is Redefining the Urban Landscape
How coworking reshapes the neighborhoods it lands in: local economic development, the way architects design for shared use, and the startup and talent scenes that form around it.
Member Experience
A Deep Dive into Coworking User Stories and Member Experience Design
Five member personas, the freelancer, the startup team, the remote corporate employee, the consultant and the non-profit leader, and what each one needs from the room before you design it.
Member Experience
Coffee Shop Alchemy: Crafting Coworking Spaces with the Perfect Blend of Ambiance and Energy
What the coffee house has always done for thinking and talking, and the specific elements of ambiance, energy and community a coworking space can borrow from it.
Business Model
Demystifying Coworking Space Financials: Consultant Pulls Back the Curtain of the Coworking Business Model
How the coworking business model actually makes money, from the revenue-per-square-foot goal that drives the industry to the costs and ramp that decide whether a space holds.
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Market Demand
The 30% That Never Was: How Flex’s Most Famous Number Drifted
The claim that 30% of office space will be flexible by 2030 is the most quoted number in coworking. It began as a measure of corporate portfolio preference, and over ten years of retelling it became a forecast for the whole market. Here is each step, and why flex is still only about 2% of office space.
Feasibility
What a Real Coworking Feasibility Study Actually Includes
What a genuine coworking feasibility study covers, and why a pro forma alone is not enough to commit capital to a flex conversion.
Brokers
How Listing Brokers Get Paid on Flex
A listing broker’s exclusive pays on one event, a signed lease. Flex offices are licensed, not leased, so the broker earns nothing on a flex floor. Why that kept brokers away from flex, and the one-page rider that fixes it.
Product
The Flex Revenue Test Fit: Every Office on Your Floor Plan, Priced
The test fit and the flex pro forma have lived in separate files for years. The Flex Revenue Test Fit puts them on one page: every private office on the floor plan priced on its own market, with the rent roll beside it.
NOI Comparison
Flex vs Traditional Lease: An Honest NOI Comparison
A side-by-side look at the net operating income of holding office space for a traditional tenant versus operating a flexible workspace model.
Operations
Ten Things Experienced Coworking Operators Have Figured Out
Ten operating habits experienced coworking operators keep arriving at, on pricing, people, programming and follow-up, worth building in from day one whether a space is open or still on paper.
The Building · 10
Product
The Flex Revenue Test Fit: Every Office on Your Floor Plan, Priced
Feasibility Screen
Is Your Class B Office a Viable Flex Conversion? A 20-Minute Test
Feasibility
What a Real Coworking Feasibility Study Actually Includes
Framework
The Intelligent Flexible Asset Model
Space Planning
Optimal Private Office Mix in Flex Conversion: Maximizing NOI
Developer Strategy
Why Developers Should Add Coworking: Flexible Leasing Drives Higher Yields
Mixed-Use
Why Flex Office Is Becoming the Strategic Heart of Mixed-Use Developments
Space Planning
Spec Suites vs. Coworking Business: Creating a Mix for a Truly Flexible Building
Conversion
Vacancy to Viability: The Coworking Model as a Solution for Empty Office Buildings
Developer Strategy
Build Your Own Coworking Operator Brand (and Business): A Strategic Move for Traditional Office Developers
The Numbers · 7
Revenue Model
Flex Office Revenue Stacking, Explained
NOI Comparison
Flex vs Traditional Lease: An Honest NOI Comparison
Vacancy Economics
What Empty Office Floors Actually Cost You Every Month
NOI + Valuation
Flex Office NOI Valuation Framework
Revenue Model
The Hidden Economics of Flex Office Revenue Stacking
Business Model
Rethinking Office Real Estate: The Shift to Micro Leasing
Business Model
Demystifying Coworking Space Financials: Consultant Pulls Back the Curtain of the Coworking Business Model
The Deal · 2
Brokers
How Listing Brokers Get Paid on Flex
Landlord Strategy
How Coworking Spaces Increase Property Value for Landlords
The Operator · 5
Operations
Ten Things Experienced Coworking Operators Have Figured Out
Operations
Are Coworking Spaces Profitable? The Role of Coworking Space Managers
Operations
Community Manager 3.0: Why Your Space May Need a Coworking Executive
Member Experience
A Deep Dive into Coworking User Stories and Member Experience Design
Member Experience
Coffee Shop Alchemy: Crafting Coworking Spaces with the Perfect Blend of Ambiance and Energy
The Market · 8
Industry History
Flex vs Coworking: Why One Industry Has Two Names
Market Demand
The 30% That Never Was: How Flex’s Most Famous Number Drifted
Enterprise Demand
Corporate Coworking in the U.S.: How Enterprise Demand Is Changing the Market
Market Trends
Europe’s Coworking Scene in 2025: Growth, Enterprise Demand, and Premium Trends
Industry Outlook
Coworking Occupancy Benchmarks and 2026 Flex Trends
Market Trends
2025 Coworking Trends: Management Agreements, Niche Markets, and Service Ecosystems
Market Trends
WeWork’s Bankruptcy: A Historical Paradox in Coworking
Urban Economics
How Coworking is Redefining the Urban Landscape