Summer is over, so it’s back to school, back to work and – if you’re in real estate – back to asking workers to give the office another chance.

“If we’re going to make progress, we have to have a system that recognises greatness,” the co-founder of Smart Building Certification said at the Sustainable Places conference in Nice, France.

Where would you open a flexible office in a hyper-competitive market? The middle of a city teeming with giant multinationals, fledgling startups and the people who keep them all ticking – or at the heart of a suburban collective founded on utopian ideals?

Office leasing tool Bright Spaces has added Bruntwood Works as its second client in the UK.

Working from home some of the time is associated with better communication and higher quality work than working entirely from home or the office, according to a study from Harvard Business School.

Against a backdrop of uncertainty, tenants in some of the biggest US markets are delaying or reconsidering their office space needs, according to a report from VTS.

Following a period of rationalisation landlords and workspace operators have kickstarted their flexible office delivery growth, according to the listed global software supplier to the sector.

One of the world’s largest real estate investment managers has agreed to provide two sustainability-linked loans against assets in the UK and the Netherlands – its first in the region.

Commercial real estate needs “sustained investment” in smart tech and data analytics to keep up with new ways of working, according to JLL.