Coliving Pulse
The weekly brief, and every issue of it.
One issue a week on what actually moved in coliving — transactions, planning decisions, regulation — with every claim linked to where it came from. We read across student housing and build-to-rent too, because the operating models are converging.
Issues are sourced from dated trade feeds and primary registers rather than from web search, and when we get something wrong we correct it in public. Both of those decisions have a history, and it is written down on our methodology page.
Every issue
7 issuesIssue #007·22 September 2026
Read →A Council Revokes Its Own Licensing Scheme, and Exeter Prices Coliving Separately
Telford and Wrekin revoked an additional HMO licensing designation in full after a legal challenge over how it consulted — a procedural defeat, not a policy one, and the distinction matters. McLaren wins 280 coliving homes at Fish Island, and a consented Exeter site is offered with its coliving element saleable on its own.
6 sources cited
Issue #006·14 September 2026
Read →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.
10 sources cited
Issue #005·7 September 2026
Read →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.
9 sources cited
Issue #004·2 September 2026
Read →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.
8 sources cited
Issue #003·17 August 2026
Read →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.
5 sources cited
Issue #002·12 August 2026
Read →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.
6 sources cited
Issue #001·6 August 2026
Read →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.
3 sources cited