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Launching, marketing, operating and financing coliving businesses — written from real operator experience.
5 Strategies to Boost Your Coliving Space's NPS Score
How to measure Net Promoter Score in a coliving context and five practical levers — service, amenities, personalization, feedback loops, and retention programs — that turn residents into advocates.
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Do Coliving Spaces Have Private Bathrooms? The Answer Is a Regulation, Not a Preference
Residents ask whether the bathroom is private. Operators discover the same question decides how many rooms a building can lawfully hold. What the ratio rules actually say in the UK and Canada, and why the en-suite premium is smaller than it looks.
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Coliving Pulse #001 — The Market We're Operating In
Our first sourced industry briefing: where the coliving market actually stands in 2026 — growth trajectory, a UK construction slowdown, and what institutional money means for operators.
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Coliving Pulse #002 — Capital Keeps Flowing, Cranes Keep Stopping
Six sourced signals this week: record UK rental investment against collapsing construction starts, a Wimbledon office block recast as 532 coliving studios, London's planning rulebook rewritten, Habyt's Asia exit, a Salford tower changing hands, and JLL's evidence that Singapore coliving has gone mainstream.
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Coliving Pulse #003 — Consent Season, and a REIT Puts a Price on Coliving
Five sourced signals this week: a Singapore REIT buys a coliving building for S$134m and publishes the yield, Cardiff's 33-storey tower clears its final planning hurdle, Belfast gets its first purpose-built coliving application, a Peckham community venue heads for conversion, and a Canary Wharf mega-tower shows coliving's new role inside blended schemes.
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Coliving Pulse #004 — Capital Commits, and Dubai Writes the Rulebook
Two weeks of signals in one issue: a private equity platform forward funds a £80m Kingston scheme, Moda opens its first coliving building in White City, a £160m Hackney application lands, Dubai's shared housing law comes into force, Singapore's state-backed pilot is five times oversubscribed, Sunderland gets a conversion scheme, and India's supply gap is measured at 6.6 million beds.
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Coliving Pulse #005 — Lancashire Closes the Door Overnight, and Downing Refinances Manchester
Four Lancashire boroughs adopted borough-wide Article 4 directions in under a year, one of them taking effect the day after approval. Downing refinances its Manchester coliving cluster at around £250m. Plus the standards patchwork underneath it all — and a correction to the first version of this issue.
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Coliving Pulse #006 — A Second Refinancing in Two Weeks, and the Rule That Now Sits Above Every Refusal
Handelsbanken refinances Wales' first coliving scheme at £24.25m, its first deal in the sector — the second stabilised-asset refinancing in a fortnight. Lambeth approves £2bn Vauxhall Square four votes to three after affordable housing drops from 35% to 25%. And a refusal in Bath surfaces a Direction, in force since May, that puts the Secretary of State above every refusal of a 150-home-plus scheme.
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