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Homeshare brings together people with spare rooms with people who are happy to chat and help out around the house in return for affordable, sociable accommodation. Typically house providers are older, between 60 and 90, and home sharers are typically younger being either mature students or people aged between 40 and 60. Student home share…

Granny flats and annexes may not need planning permission and are a great solution to co-living in later life if you have family. By combing budgets from the sale of one or two properties, families can find properties with the possibility to offer a separate granny flat or annexe. If this is not possible within…

Joining a co-housing commnity that already exists, means you do not have to start from scratch. In fact there are many schemes operating in the UK, although not as many as in Scandinavia or the United States due to land prices. You can join a co-housing scheme or community – in your part of the…

Renting or buying a flat jointly with others (up to 4) – you may decide that you want to live in a bigger group. Having a bigger group really makes the financial savings even more attractive and allows you to find very good quality properties and to share things you couldn’t otherwise afford, like gardens,…

Overview Cohabitas is a house share and flatshare website exclusively for the over 40s. It is Free to Register and you will find a friendly community of people all interested in sharing a home with like-minded people. You can browse all rooms for rent and housemate listings freely, but to see full sharing preferences and contact information you need to…

Out of the trend to shared co-working space, developers have now started using the term co-living to describe shared housing that includes some communal living elements. Often using the same source of commercial and industrial buildings, which are then expertly converted, these purpose-built co-living flats typically offer a large number of studio-sized and smaller flats,…

Renting a room is is the most easily organised type of co-living and sharing. Finding a room in a house share where there are already people living and where they are looking for a new housemates makes things much simpler. You can choose your housemates and choose a room in a suitable house or flat.…

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Financial Sharing the cost of buying or renting a house or flat and sharing bills is more relevant than ever with today’s property prices. House sharing makes so much sense because on average you can save 50% per person when sharing with just one other person and 60% when you share with 2 or more others. Find…