Conscious Coliving

We are proud to announce the launch of a new campaign: Why Coliving? We are coordinating key UK coliving players urbanbubble, VervLife, HUB, Bridges Fund Management Ltd., Assael Architecture and The Furniture Practice in a collaborative campaign that promotes coliving homes to #localauthorities, national #policymakers and #investors. The campaign aims to encourage support for the sector, increase investment and ultimately deliver much needed rental homes 🏘 The campaign is also supported and endorsed by the British Property Federation, CBRE and Cascade 🙌 Why Coliving? will give local authorities, policymakers and investors the opportunity to better understand coliving and how it can meet their housing agendas. Expect further updates in the coming weeks! Thanks to project partners Katherine Rose, Michael Howard, George Ahye, Celia Harrison, Fiona McMillan, Lynsey Brough, Kirsten Dyer, Tim Chapman-Cavanagh, Edward Sharland, Russell Pedley, Kate Butler, Kate Brown, Damien Sharkey, and Valentine Agamah for their collaboration on this exciting project. #coliving #whycoliving #realestate #housing #campaign #research

What do we mean by conscious? Why are conscious communities the seeds of the new paradigm that is emerging all over the world? Our co-founder and Director of Community & Wellbeing, Naima von Ritter Figueres, has started a series of posts to share about this topic. Check out the first one below. Does it resonate for you? Let us know! #coliving #consciouscoliving #sharedliving #flexliving #interbeing #consciouscommunities #communitybuilding #wellbeing #connectionmatters

Our co-founder & director Matt Lesniak will speaking at the Urban Living Festival this week in London hosted by International Hospitality Media Limited . 🎙 Matt will be moderating a panel on the Greater London Authority's shared living planning guidance, with Jermaine Browne of re:shape and Valentine Agamah of Cascade. They will be diving into the implications of this planning guidance for the London shared living scene and in other target markets across the UK. 🏙 Matt will also be hosting the coliving breakout stage with other shared living experts and some partners of ours including Katherine Rose, Jenna Harris, Bart Sasim, Yianni Tsitouras, Alex Gibbs, Yoni Karako, Zafar Bhunnoo, Barry McKeown and Stephanie R. Barbabosa, CPM. ⚡ Thanks to George Sell and Piers Brown for getting us involved! #sharedliving #coliving #realestate #urbanliving #hospitality

We're delighted to share that one of our co-founders, Dr Penny Clark, will be giving an industry update of #coliving at #RESi360, taking place 2-4 October. See below for conference details... https://lnkd.in/duzTSUXj

Last week Knight Frank released their 2024 Co-Living Report focusing on the performance and opportunities of the UK shared living sector. Some highlights of the report include: 🛌 Last year, nearly 2,500 new co-living beds completed and opened to residents, reflecting a 65% increase on coliving delivery in 2022. 🔢 This brought the total number of operational coliving homes in the UK to 7,540. 🏗 A further 13,483 coliving units are currently under construction or have planning permission granted.  📢 Residential property review site HomeViews has reported high levels of satisfaction among coliving residents – 92% of residents said they would recommend their landlord to friends and family. 💰 Since 2020, investors have spent £902 million acquiring or funding coliving developments. That includes a record £258 million in the first quarter of 2024, with coliving spend accounting for a fifth of the total invested in the UK Build to Rent market in the first quarter of 2024. Overall this is a positive sign for the UK coliving market in terms of investor appetite and pipeline opportunities. With supply significantly lower than housing demand across the UK, the opportunities for market growth are strong. You can download the report in the comments below to dive in further. Great work from Lizzie Breckner, Oliver Knight and their teams on the research! #coliving #data #research #pipeline #development #realestate

Have you entered the Coliving Awards yet? You have until midday CEST on the 8 July ⏱... Categories include: ➡ Building & Architecture ➡ Interior & Furniture Design ➡ Branding & Marketing ➡ User & Community Experience ➡ Impact & Sustainability ➡ PropTech ➡ ConTech ➡ Marketplace & Aggregator ➡ Student Coliving ➡ Nomad Coliving ➡ Rural Coliving ➡ Senior Coliving ➡ Blended Living ➡ Coliving Operator of the Year (SMB) ➡ Coliving Operator of the Year (Scale up) ➡ Coliving Developer of the Year ➡ Emerging Coliving Concept ➡ Academia (Students & PhDs) Start practicing your award speech 😉 Make your award-winning entry here: https://lnkd.in/dykSiu4 Coliving Ventures BV

Last week marked the completion of the first round of our signature Coliving Community Program! 🎉 The program is a co-learning and co-creation journey into what makes a thriving shared living community and business. Over the 6-month program we exchanged and learned from one another on how to enhance the user and community experience, drive impact through local neighborhoods and ecosystems, strengthen team dynamics and business growth and much more. 🤓 We’re very grateful for our first cohort of shared living pioneers: Fuzer / Amvest, Udda, City Pop, HomeRoom (YC W22), samesame co-living, Outpost Club, Hyve and COLIVE. One of the main benefits of the program is the community of professionals it helps foster, and these innovators really embodied the ethos of the program by remaining open and honest when sharing about their challenges, solutions, inspirations and visions of success with one another. 👏 As co-facilitators of the program, this is the value we got out of the program too – learning and being inspired by a group of coliving pioneers aiming to foster more conscious and impact-driven shared living communities. If you’re looking for strategies to help enable residents to feel engaged, connected, happy, healthy, and loyal to your shared living brand, give us a shout to be involved in the next cohort! 📢 We’ll be starting this fall and you can reach out the prorgram co-lead Naima von Ritter Figueres to explore joining. #coliving #community #facilitation #operations #impact #teams

Our co-founder Dr Penny Clark was recently interviewed for this BBC article, 'Why Communal Living Can Make Us Happier'. The article looks at living in communal warehouses, #cohousing, and touches upon many other "cos", including #coliving, #communes and #cooperatives. This article is a good reminder that there are many ways to live together communally. And of course, there are always things that different shared living models can learn from one another. We're happy to see discussion of communal living reach a mainstream media platform. Thanks to journalist Matilda Welin for exploring what we think 😉 is such an important and increasingly relevant topic. You can have a read of the full article here -> https://lnkd.in/e95q_uEy 

See below 7 sustainability practices for shared living and real estate companies to help achieve global climate goals. Our co-founder Matt shares useful resources, solutions and case studies for inspiration of what is possible. 🏵 #sustainability #climatechange #inspiration

It was a great turnout earlier this week for Bisnow's UK #Coliving Summit. Our Co-Founder Dr Penny Clark attended, and below are her panel takeaways... 📈 There is increased investor interest and confidence due to working proof(s) of concept, plus the revised LSPBSH / Coliving Policy. However, planners could go further in acknowledging coliving. Some authorities have placed quite onerous conditions on developers - more can be done to make the case for coliving, how it fulfils housing need, and its potential #ESG benefits. 🤩 How to communicate the quality of experience and amenity over SQM? An interesting question from the audience Robert Shaw. Coliving upends housing dogma about what makes a good home (size, privacy, ownership). Communicating its value requires new measures of what good looks like - a question in some ways echoed by Gravity Co’s Founder & CIO Susanna Rock when she asked Utopi CTO Falk Bleyl how they measure the “S” in ESG. 📊 There is a need for more data on coliving, its residents, and the use of spaces. While data is starting to emerge, we are still somewhat reliant on sister typologies (i.e. BTR and #PBSA). Given that coliving is inhabited by the ‘next gen tenant’, which Damien Sharkey shared is ever-more socially and environmentally conscious, more comprehensive and coherent data will do much to define and improve best practice. 🧑🤝🧑 Community experience must be adequately valued. In a fragmented market what will make coliving stand out is the community experience, and how the operator shapes that, said Susanna Rock. We couldn't agree more! 🏢 Coliving a subset of #BTR? Over the past few years ‘But what IS coliving??’ is a question which continually resurfaces (and there isn’t full agreement yet). But the panelists consistently labeled coliving as a subset of #BTR, which financially aligns, as it was shared that coliving has a similar ROI, especially as operating models become more efficient. Thanks to Bisnow and the panelists Arnaud Malbos, David Jerrard, Susanna Rock, Falk Bleyl, Sam Nichols Ilya Tabachinskiy Helena Tsiantes Jansson, Damien Sharkey, Ali Reza Ravanshad, Jeremy Pickard, Andy Billingham, Judy Fawcett for their insights!