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Coworking real estate

1 breakdown and 7 tracked deals in this sector, compiled from public reporting.

Disclosed value counts only deals where a figure was made public. Most private equity transactions never are, so treat this as a floor, not a total.

The breakdowns

• Sep 19, 2026

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Who is buying

The deals

1. 2017

   WeWork

   Minority investment · SoftBank

   CompletedYahoo/Reuters — Timeline of SoftBank's bets on WeWork
2. 2019-01$2B

   WeWork

   Minority investment · SoftBank

   CompletedForbes — WeWork's rise to $47 billion and fall to bankruptcy: a timeline
3. 2019-09-30

   WeWork

   IPO (withdrawn)

   Still heldCNBC — The strangest and most alarming things in WeWork's IPO filing
4. 2021-10$9B

   WeWork

   SPAC merger

   CompletedBloomberg — WeWork agrees to $9 billion SPAC deal
5. 2023-11-06

   WeWork

   Chapter 11 filing

   BankruptCNBC — WeWork files for bankruptcy
6. 2024

   WeWork

   Majority stake (bankruptcy exit)

   CompletedBisnow — Yardi to become WeWork's majority owner in bankruptcy exit plan
7. date t.b.c.$9.5B

   WeWork

   Rescue financing · SoftBank

   CompletedCNBC — SoftBank CEO calls WeWork investment "foolish," valuation falls to $2.9B

Compiled from public reporting. Not investment advice.