Pricing a Co-Living Scheme

Amenity, community and the rent premium the model actually commands

Co-living residents pay more for better rooms, better shared spaces, bills wrapped into one payment and a sense of community, and every one of those features costs money to provide. This book teaches you to price a scheme honestly and to work out what it will keep after the full cost of running it. It picks out the few figures that matter, shows where to find local rent and demand data for free, and explains why co-living income is so often overstated. The cost chapter covers the running costs beginners tend to skim, and each scheme is then stress-tested against a bad month, empty rooms and a rate rise. A complete worked example follows one property through the capital going in, the income, the operating costs, the finance and the bottom line. You finish with a simple calculator to use on every scheme and a clear view of the legal questions it cannot answer. Next in this series: “Planning and Standards for Large Shared Living”.

What’s inside

• The only numbers that actually matter
• Where to find reliable local data for free
• Working out true income, not optimistic income
• The full cost stack nobody mentions
• Stress-testing for the bad month, the void, the rate rise
• A complete worked example, start to finish
• Your deal calculator, and the legal questions it cannot answer

Educational material only, not financial, legal or tax advice. Results are not typical and are not a guarantee of income. Freedom Property Academy LTD, registered in England and Wales.