Journal of Property Investment & Finance: Volume 40 Issue 5

Guest editorial: Co-working spaces after COVID-19. The differences between sharing office spaces in urban cores and peripheral locations

Laura Gabrielli, Stefania Fiorentino

Flexible workspace providers as tenants: an analysis of the rental prices in the London market

Fernanda Antunes Batista da Silva, Nan Liu, Norman Hutchison

The covenant strength of flexible workspace (FW) providers as tenants is debatable. There is the argument that providers are risky mainly due to the very nature of their business…

A systematic literature review of the effects of coworking spaces on the socio-cultural and economic conditions in peripheral and rural areas

Thomas Vogl, Mina Akhavan

The literature on coworking spaces (CSs) is growing fast; notably, this topic has attracted a wide range of contributions from various disciplines during the past years. Although…

Why do they go to the peripheries? Studying the relations between the real estate market and coworking spaces in the peripheral areas of Germany

Thomas Vogl, Grzegorz Micek

The study was designed to investigate the bidirectional causation between the real estate market characteristics (residential property prices/rents (including PTR), office rents…

Corporate occupiers’ attitude to flex space in the post-Covid environment

Howard Cooke, Stefania Fiorentino, Rob Harris, Nicola Livingstone, Pat McAllister

This paper investigates how large UK corporate occupiers perceive the potential role of flexible office space in their office portfolios in a post-pandemic context.

The diverse coworking landscape and implications for commercial real estate provision: lessons from individual preferences and practice

Nick Clifton, Darja Reuschke

Coworking (shared flexible working spaces) grew exponentially before the COVID-19 pandemic. The crisis led to spaces closing but demand is likely to increase as homeworking/remote…

Real Estate Insights Offices – reports of my death are greatly exaggerated

Nick French

The aim of this Real Estate Insight is to comment upon the role that offices will play in the post-COVID 19 work environment. The impact of lockdowns, worldwide, was to accelerate…