The Manhattan Co-Working Craze Is Ready to Hit a Wall, Brokerage Predicts

The Convene flagship location in New York.

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When it comes to Manhattan office space, the shares are peaking.

Co-working, or sharing a building or floor, has proved so important to office real estate in the New York borough that the market would actually be shrinking without it. Now comes a Savills Studley Inc. report predicting that the fast-expanding category, which has spurred WeWork Cos. to seek a $35 billion market valuation, is heading for a peak in Manhattan in the next couple of years.