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Nasharina and Patrick are based in Lincolnshire and are looking for a retired gentleman to join their family home for conversation and companionship.   Nasharina & Patrick, please tell us a little bit about your home and what someone can expect from living with you. We are a busy house, we are often out and…

Christina lives and works in London and is looking for a new flatshare to move into over the next week. Are you looking for a new housemate or have a spare room in your flat? Then read on …. If this sounds interesting, get in touch with Christina below. Christina, please tell us a little…

Lucille decided to move in with her daughter, son in law and 2 grandchildren, so she could spend more time with them, help with childcare but also know she’d have someone to look after her when she was older. Libby moved to the other side of the globe in her 50s to follow her childhood…

With more restrictions affecting our daily lives and concerning news bombarding us every day, it can be difficult to remain in positive spirits. Since the situation will likely last for a while, we spoke to mindset coach Sarah Wheeler, one of our Cohabitas members, to get her advice on how to stay positive. Sarah tells…

In today’s interview we talk to Claudia who is looking for shared living with like-minded people. She wants housemates to join her in sharing a property long-term – a lifestyle choice to enrich life in many ways and by no means just a temporary solution. If this appeals to you, get in touch with Claudia…

The lockdown has forced many of us to change our routines and inevitably spend longer in our shared living space, although goodness knows, I’ve walked around every part of the nearby park multiple times over the last year. Many of the new routines are positive and indeed many people have reported happy days doing things…

Perhaps more than any other aspects of life, COVID has changed our experience of home and of work; in fact for many the two have become synonymous as they have taken place in the same living space. For many then and some now, gone was the chance to have a change of scene and to…

Harmonious house shares depend on the people who you live with. According to conversations with people living in a house share successfully, these house sharers consider themselves lucky to live with the other person. Many of them talk about setting the ground rules early on and letting their housemates know what is important to them.…

House sharing website Cohabitas launched in late 2016 to meet the needs of mature private renters. We have often been compared to spareroom by our users and we also use spareroom.co.uk as a measure. It is a useful comparison point for us because spareroom is the UK’s biggest house share and flat share website and…