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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…

How a casual house share turned into a beautiful friendship In today’s interview we talk to Libby who shares a house with Cinzia in Lavender Hill, Clapham, South London. The two women in their 50s met when Libby moved into their shared house in 2019. They live in a beautiful 4-bedroom terraced house with their…

Today we talk to two friends who have been sharing a house in Colliers Wood, South London, for the past two years. Sarah, an Executive Coach, and Whing, a Pharmacist and Photographer. Both are in their 40s and tell us what it is like to live in a grown-up house share and how it works…

It seems strange to say it, that at a time when we can’t plan what would like to do next week, we can think about how we would like to live in future. Any plans to move out of your flat or house to a new one is frankly impossible at present due to the…

Like many people, I have recently visited my mother and had to say goodbye to her knowing that I might not be able to see her for a few weeks, or even months. Not even a hug too say goodbye, as I couldn’t get too close. I live in London and my mum is in Norfolk, around…

This week we have all started to think about the ways we live. There is nothing like a crisis to make people think harder and act faster, and this week we saw some great examples of how people were preparing to reduce isolation during the Coronavirus outbreak.  ‘Adversity is the mother of invention’, or should…

Having no kitchen whilst isolating presents more of a problem than not being able to cook anything yourself. New York has few apartments with Kitchens.

What do I want from life and from my home in my 60’s? This is a question I have been asking myself as I reach that milestone next month, especially as I have just taken my dementia-suffering mother to a residential care home last week. The care home is small, family-run and has very experienced…

A recent survey carried out in Gijon, Spain led to 116 measures to improve the lives of the elderly being introduced – with a focus on housing and shared living in older age.

Christmas day alone can be quite pleasant … but after a few hours …