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If I'm not mistaken, WeWork owns a number of the buildings in which they have offices. Not sure what the percentage is.
by eric_h 9y ago
If I'm not mistaken, WeWork owns a number of the buildings in which they have offices. Not sure what the percentage is.
- CPLX 9y agoIt may have changed very recently I suppose, but with that caveat aside I believe you are, in fact, mistaken. The business model for the company has always been lease arbitrage. There was discussion at one point[0] of them having a related entity to purchase real estate, but I'm not sure what came from that, and even in that plan it was to be a separate investment vehicle, not the VC backed company being discussed here. [0]https://therealdeal.com/2016/10/14/wework-wants-to-become-a-real-estate-investor/ https://therealdeal.com/2016/10/14/wework-wants-to-become-a-...
- eric_h 9y agoI heard, from someone who works for WeWork, that they do own at least some of the WeWork buildings in Manhattan. Admittedly it was a low level employee, so he could have been mistaken.