What's a coliving hub?
A shared home and workspace, where we also share some of our purpose and learnings.
For a workation to escape routine, as a retreat to dig into projects, or as a base.
Be you an entrepreneur, remote worker, digital nomad, a creative, or anything else!
Creating amazing new spaces, reinvigorating old ones!
Benefit from shared facilities (cinema, bikes, workspaces, ice-cream maker, …).
Get closer to nature whilst remaining connected to the wider world.
Stay affordably, buying into use of properties as you are able.
Be part of community respecting innovation and independence.
Our purpose as a member-owned housing co‑operative will be providing affordable co‑ownership, giving us flexible and guaranteed use of spaces at cost. With fractional shares for part-time use, dedicated units, or as an investment…
a one-time share purchase around
fully flexible across units and seasons
plus costs for stays from €275/month
As participants in a dynamic ecosystem we share its opportunities whilst generating rental revenue as a social enterprise — ensuring standards whilst reinvesting in hosting workshops, talks, and activities, enriching not just ourselves, but the wider community. By embracing diversity and serendipity as a community we'll create vitality in our lives!
Hello! — I'm Jacob
… a semi-nomadic tech entrepreneur and one of the first to run a coliving and coworking space (in India!) and the coliving.community directory.
I've been looking to combine my desire for a dynamic community base with great access to the outdoors (somewhere mild!) — alongside a business investment ensuring the resilience of the coliving space and its community.
An approach with guaranteed flexible use through part ownership (or dedicated units) with facilities fit for purpose — growing to multiple properties amongst which we may roam or base ourselves.
[pic] Yours-truly (right) with one of the cool owners of Bansko Nomad Fest who's doing something similar, they bought an Auberge in Switzerland.
Pre-pandemic I found an old mill in the Portuguese mountains for which hundreds of you were interested; I met the town council and some of us visited during a parsnip festival(!) but ultimately rejected, also umm pandemic travel…
I'm looking to restart the project, so keen to find folks to collaborate with(!) but do want to start in France as it's overlooked, cheap and full of value, plus I'm familiar here.
The project is on pause yet should restart Q2 2026! It will no longer offer dedicated units (studios/apartments/cohousing) unless a bunch of you step forward to back that, instead I'll focus on a first smaller (satellite, not hub) property.
Regardless, if any of the approaches or properties make sense and appeal to you, do let me know. Whatsapp Email
A first property — the south of France🇫🇷
A favourite of tourists yet overlooked by digital nomads. Actually affordable with no surprises, except maybe how many pastries you can eat.🥐 Good infrastructure, and everything runs like clockwork. Well, except when they're on strike…
Example properties…
€197k L1000m²
lovely semi-usable with big garden in village amongst hills with good surroundings but remote-ish
€90k M500m²
town balancing access for city (1h) and mountains (15–45mins), but needs work, train for Barcelona
€45k S300m²
good village and location at base of central Pyrenees, train for Barcelona
€120k S300m²
semi-usable with garden, warm climate, famous mountain, town, beaches, <3h train to Barcelona
€59k S300m²
courtyard in average village yet lively market amongst nice surroundings and hills near Carcassonne
€97k XL1500m²
Cevennes / Ardeche; solid empty shell with garden, ok village with station and great surroundings
Due to a huge slump in sales (2000+ agents closed) there's good choice of properties, even fully functional hotels for under €0.5m. Most need works such as replacing windows with double-glazing, but allows optimisation of layout and facilities. Having done a bit before I'm ready to get my hands dirty again.
Get on board! 🙌
The project requires your support — pledge to be part of it — participate in a community you can return to, at-cost for whatever share you own?! Don't fancy the sound of this project? Check out some other coownership properties!
What's a pledge? — Simply expressing your interest to join the co-operative, paying for shares only if we approve a property. Otherwise simply walk away.
I'd love to have a cofounder who'd better handle promotion and outreach, whether just for a first mutualised property, or towards a grand commercial approach. Might it be you?
We'll run it together—to all have a stake
Whether you participate as a co-owner, an investor, or simply visit on rental, you will do so as a member of our cooperative society, functioning within the space as a do-ocracy. To join us make a pledge then once we've agreed our plans, you'll be invited to apply for our community shares…
The simple way to consider how it works as a member, is that when you buy into the co-op (with shares), you get to use the co-op's facilities at cost (significantly less than public rental rates), proportional to your share of capacity (fractional use) for the value of shares you own. When it no longer suits anymore, you can withdraw your shares to get the money you paid for the shares back. (About the model…)
Shareholders
- have guaranteed fully flexible use as booking credit proportional to your shareholding
- usable for any unit at any time, calculated as the sum of total public rental rates for rooms across seasons, distributed amongst the shareholders
- may trade unused credit with other members at any rate, else may pay the public rate to stay longer than your share's credit
- when notified for non-use will be paid dividends anticipated around 10%
- shares may be purchased exclusively as an investment
Operations
- incorporated as a Co-operative Society in the UK for the mutual benefit of its members
- fractional co-ownership with community shares, returning their cost if you withdraw†
- paid volunteers looking after driving and cleaning
- maintenance fund covers costs into the future to avoid bad surprises
- community fund from rental revenue surplus allows us to invest in good surprises
- may expand as a network of multiple properties exchanging co-owner use
Our values… we don't believe in believing too much!
🧙 Diversity and 🧚 dynamism.
How can I join-in?
- pledge and confirm with €1
- join the whatsapp France group
- a group visit will be arranged
- founding members form the co-op purchasing shares
- when pledges and plans match, founding members will open membership
- you'll buy into the co-op with a deposit towards your shareholding
- an offer will be made for purchase and if accepted its deposit paid
- shareholdings will be paid up to conclude purchase and get the keys
- later members will join, closing funding for renovations
(late-issue shares shall have a higher cost) - unused funds will be returned to shareholders
See the questions page for more details.