If you knew “coliving” five years back, you were probably part of the 1% who are part of the coliving industry today.
Even two years ago, coliving was nothing.
80% of press articles mentioning coliving have been written since 2019. LinkedIn posts with #coliving grew by 1200% during that time.
Since 2019, the industry matured: an entire ecosystem of operators, developers, consultants, investors, and service providers have specialized in the coliving niche. At the same time, support organizations have enabled this ecosystem to foster more rapidly, from coliving media over to industry awards, global (virtual) summits, and local lobbying organizations.
The growth of the coliving phenomena has taken over the real estate trends list. The movement is entering a rapid growth phase and many are trying to understand what coliving truly means.
Coliving could be called the “bitcoin of real estate” - it’s a trend that is rapidly growing, where everyone is excited about and yet almost no one understands the full picture.
At Co-Liv, the global association of coliving professionals, we’ve experienced that growth too. Our members increased 350% since mid-2019, our newsletter subscribers quadrupled, and our inner circle team went from 4 to 45 active members, who mostly form part of the executive team or are an official Co-Liv ambassador in their country of activity. There’s no doubt that coliving will continue to increase.
Sharing valuable knowledge with coliving professionals
We know that most people still have unanswered questions:
Investors ask what the expected return on coliving assets can be. Operators ask what type of services to offer and how to differentiate their brands. Developers ask how to get city permits and planning permissions.
Community managers ask how to responsibilize residents. Marketing leads ask how to best attract and vet future residents. And city planning officials ask what the intrinsic value of coliving spaces can be.
The areas where the industry needs knowledge are clear:
💵 Investing into coliving: criteria and success stories
🏡 Community building: best practices from leading community builders
✍️ Spatial and interior design for community, wellbeing, and sustainability
📈 The coliving business models: understanding the main differences
🏨 Converting hotels to coliving: how to readapt the hotel industry in 2021
💡 The future of technology: industry solutions and future opportunities
🌎 Overview of the coliving industry: investment overview of today’s industry
🤝 The future of human connection: how culture is changing our behaviors
⚖️ Affordability in coliving: how to create social impact-driven concepts
📘 Coliving public policy: working with city governments
Creating valuable connections
At Co-Liv, we are a community. And community means caring about each other, helping each other, and connecting to each other.
This is why we always host speed-networking sessions, in which participants are able to meet their future partners, services providers, and peers along the coliving journey.
These networking sessions are literally one of the highest values that one can dream of. No other events focusses that much on creating professional and personal connections between industry peers as we do. And for every attendee, these sessions are often the #1 highlight.
Shining light on industry innovators
The last main reason is because coliving needs a direction.
We at Co-Liv believe in the social value that coliving can have.
Coliving is a means to housing affordability. Coliving is a means to reducing loneliness in cities. Coliving is a means to offering more qualitative living environments than traditional housing. And coliving can, in its most evolved form, be a school of life.
This is why we are very excited to host the Coliving Awards ceremony, which is the first ceremony that will highlight key innovators in the industry.
The Coliving Awards is the first award ceremony dedicated to highlighting key innovators, actors and ideas that are shaping the coliving industry.
As our vision and initiatives are very aligned with those of Coliving Awards, we are partnering up with them to showcase the innovations within the sector as well as push for impact and value driven coliving business, communities and experiences.
And, on top of that, high-level keynotes will have experts and innovators share their vision of coliving, where the movement is heading and what you can do today.