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Cohabitas is the leading house share website for the over 40's and over 50s:
Some useful website stats:
- One million views, doubling every year.
- Over 50,000 registered users
- 68% of our users are between the ages of 45 and 64.
- 57% female users
- We are about the people you share with, not just the rooms and house shares available.
Cohabitas users are:
- Home owners with a spare room to rent
- Lead tenants looking for a new housemate
- Long-term house sharers looking for a new home, often after the landlord moves.
- 'Life changers' often coming from another country to start a new life. Typically over 50 and empty nesters, divorced and now free to explore.
- Professionals aged 35-54 needing a place to stay in the city for 2-3 nights a week only, returning to their out-of-city home.
- Recently divorced or separated people needing a short-term place to stay and deciding how to reorganise life.
Why do peple house share? Most people share for financial reasons, but 57% appreciate the social value as well. We have recently (Dec 2024) done a poll of registered Cohabitas users to confirm their reasons for house sharing, which shows an increasng level of appreciation fo rthe social side of house sharing.
How does house sharing help you financially? Our recent calculation of the money you can save through house or flat sharing shows 30-40% savings per person.
We would be happy to assist journalists in understanding the need for a mature house shares and how we help people find a good match.
Please take time to look at some of our research below, compiled over the last 8 years, then if you have a question, feel free to email us on admin@cohabitas.com . We have a lot of anectdotal information to help you form a story line, so please ask.
A large and growing community
Each month we reach 22,000 over 40s interested in house sharing, consisting of approx. 4,000 live-in landlords and18,000 housemates.
House Share Community
60% women
65% aged between 45 and 64
20% home owners, with 80% private renters
Introducing Cohabitas
Cohabitas takes a more mature attitude to house sharing. Our community are like-minded, fiendly, over 40 years old group (minimum registration age 35) and are full of life, sharing tips and advice about house sharing.
Although the majority of our users are looking for cost savings by sharing, a significant majority (57%) also consider social reasons for sharing to be important.
As such, our users appreciate the importance of finding the right people to live with, not just finding a place to live.
See our key research reports:
Cohabitas Report: Attitudes to house sharing among mature adults (2017)
There is also more content in our House Sharing research section.
Also see these interviews about why people house share over 50: