Demand soars for China co-working investments

The rapid growth of the sharing economy, combined with declining yields from traditional real-estate investments, is prompting a surge of interest in co-working as an alternative in Asia, an industry conference heard on Tuesday. Attendees at the 17th HKVCA China Private Equity Summit in Hong Kong heard the same message from one panel speaker after another: more capital is flowing into Asian real estate, prompting investors to diversify into newer asset classes such as data centres…