{"id":1317,"date":"2017-03-02T18:17:42","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T12:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.propstack.com\/news\/?p=1317"},"modified":"2017-03-02T18:17:42","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T12:47:42","slug":"potential-softbank-wework-deal-highlights-flexible-office-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.propstack.com\/news\/potential-softbank-wework-deal-highlights-flexible-office-trend\/","title":{"rendered":"Potential SoftBank-WeWork deal highlights flexible office trend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Burgeoning interest and investment in flexible workspaces is pushing a small corner of the commercial real estate market into the corporate mainstream, and drawing one top executive from Asia to help expand his company&#8217;s U.S. operations.<\/p>\n<p>Media reports say Japan&#8217;s SoftBank Group Corp, with expertise in information technology and telecommunications, is close to investing more than $3 billion in the U.S. office-sharing upstart WeWork. This would mark a major vote of confidence in the business and the sector overall.<\/p>\n<p>Servcorp, an Australia-based rival to WeWork, believes the market is ripe for expansion and is sending its chief operating officer to New York with a goal of doubling U.S. operations, 22 locations, in about five years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/business\/international-business\/potential-softbank-wework-deal-highlights-flexible-office-trend\/articleshow\/57420197.cms\" target=\"_blank\">Times of India<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burgeoning interest and investment in flexible workspaces is pushing a small corner of the commercial real estate market into the corporate mainstream, and drawing one top executive from Asia to help expand his company&#8217;s U.S. operations. Media reports say Japan&#8217;s SoftBank Group Corp, with expertise in information technology and telecommunications, is close to investing more\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.propstack.com\/news\/potential-softbank-wework-deal-highlights-flexible-office-trend\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[163,71],"class_list":["post-1317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international","tag-co-working-space","tag-wework"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propstack.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propstack.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propstack.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propstack.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propstack.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.propstack.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1318,"href":"https:\/\/www.propstack.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions\/1318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propstack.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propstack.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propstack.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}