Coworking and coliving all together…
Stay for a workation to escape your office routine, as a retreat to dig into a project, or as a base between nomadic travels.
Collaborative houses welcoming us — you're a remote worker, digital nomad, creative entrepreneur?
A varied and picturesque first location
The Cévennes and Ardèche in the south of France — three impressive gorges, immersive nature, challenging adventures, and daytrips to Roman ruins. Not to forget stereotypical French delights — pastries, markets, restaurants and quaint villages. Get work done better, around folks you actually want to share experience and activity amongst.
A purposeful property
We're renovating with an entirely purpose-designed layout, actually putting work and comfort first to gain 50% shared spaces. Not simply a facelift.
- 10 private bedrooms most ensuite, plus affordable pods private space and good energy without overwhelming
- large dedicated quiet coworking, with sofas, open to garden ideal library and workspace for focus and productivity
- cosy casual lounge with more workspace for relaxed interaction
- big kitchen and dining table, seating everyone for the all-important family meal, yet also independent cooking
- courtyard-terrace, underground den, sauna, and atrium a variety of places to gather or escape
Hub House★★★ will be one of just a few colivings achieving a 3-star classification.
Join the gang!
Current status: keys in hand, preliminary renovations over the winter, picking up steam in spring. First-year alpha opening for the summer, at under half capacity with basic facilities and of course nice low contribution costs. (See full progress.)
We'll be taking regular trips out, sharing professional exchanges to learn what our peers are up to and how we do it, plus explorations into nature to relax and find your calm or keep our stamina up. All enlivened by everyone participating…
- membership — come stay to join-in, I'm looking forward to welcoming you and seeing what you acheive whilst being here, but later next year ;)
- volunteers — once we've completed the basics some help with renovation works (food and accommodation), then looking after the property, community, driving,…
- facilitators — discounted or free long stay for leading and our in-house community activities, as social anchor, organiser and moderator
- connectors — short free stay to help curate a wider ecosystem network if you run an entrepreneurial community, are community manager at a coworking space,…
- residencies — longer free stay for introducing or guiding members in an interesting topic or approach such as arts, business, wellness, nature,…
- investors — buy-in for a ~15% yield; or as a fractional coowner for discounted use
Mosey over to the Whatsapp community for occasional updates on renovation progress and good deals when rooms become available, or reach out direct to Jacob the founder. It'll be ages before the full spec is achieved, but we'll soft launch as soon as there's some half-decent facilities.
There'll be several themed chapters each year, a couple of sober months (drinking kombucha instead of rosé if we can make it!), a family month welcoming kids, a couple of stints with standup accountability sessions… plus some mini-trips scheduled amongst with a night away somewhere, such as a hiking up the mountain, or exploring Avignon, Saint–Remy, the Camargue… Pets will be welcomed on occasion.
Investing
We're acquiring and transforming under-valued European property as purpose-built live-work destinations for the growing remote-work demographic, under a resilient asset-backed owner-operator model.
- strong demand for 2–8 week stays with high return rates reducing customer acquisition costs
- low capex €220k for first locality, similarly achievable in other locations
- optimised purpose-designed facilities 50% common spaces far exceeding most other colivings
- balanced locality not isolated, offering both access and attractions
- mid-tier pricing rates above €1000/month yet competitively below other colivings
- low operational overheads reduced turnover, hands-on community, work-exchange volunteers
- founder experience 16 years tracking and active in the coliving sector, running both one of the earliest blended colivings, and a coliving directory, plus renovation experience
- easy investment entry
- ordinary shares with regular dividend distribution
- convertible debt with priority payment
- dedicated co-founder / co-owner shares with discounted use
Our values… keeping it simple !
We encourage diversity. In our roles, the places we live and the people we know. Without judgement. Dynamic ecosystems brim with serendipity.
We embrace dynamism. Investigating the unfamiliar, creating resilience in ourselves, uncovering opportunities for all. We won't be left behind.
