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🎉 We Hosted Our First Event In Lisbon!

Last week was a big week: Artof.Co successfully hosted 55+ coliving entrepreneurs, investors, developers, and service providers at Fintech House, Lisbon, on May 22, 2024.

We started the event by presenting a report on the “State of Coliving in 2024” followed by insights from advising leading coliving entrepreneurs. We finished the evening with a networking session and drinks on rooftop.

Some key points discussed:

• The growth in numbers of operators worldwide.
• Key market trends like nichification, technology, etc.
• What makes coliving entrepreneurs successful over years
• Access to patience capital for coliving growth

and much more.

For us, it was a confirmation that coliving is just starting, even if we’ve been in the industry for close to a decade: the fact that this event, promoted two weeks beforehand, attracted that many curious and invested coliving actors, is a sign that the coliving entrepreneurship scene is just being built.

And we are excited to build it out 🔥

We will keep hosting in-real-life events over the year and make sure to inform you when we come to your city!

📣 Gui Perdrix & Mayank Pokharna Meet For The First Time

Yes, you heard it right! Even if we’ve been working for four years on different coliving projects, Mayank and I had never met.

We worked remotely, getting to know each other so well through hundreds of Zoom calls, WhatsApp conversations, and phone calls.

In less than a year, we were able to launch Artof.Co including 10 webinars with 1300+ attendees, a newsletter with 17k subscribers, a coliving incubator, and consulted dozens of coliving founders.

All of this remotely.

Until last week, when we finally met in person.

And while it felt surreal, it also felt natural, easy, trusting, and supportive—just as it always has.

I’m beyond words to describe the beauty of this relationship and how impactful it’s been to have a cofounder you can rely on.

We’re excited to be building out Artof.Co V2 with the best coliving entrepreneurship programs, mentorship and advisory.

Stay tuned for an exciting year (mhm, decade) ahead!

👏 Everything Coliving Has Its Own Website

After running Everything Coliving for months, we finally gave it some online presence:

everythingcoliving.com

We’re grateful for this journey and your readership!

The Jesuits Are Entering The Student Housing Sector

The Jesuits will invest €21M to build a university campus in Madrid.

The religious order plans to build a postgraduate campus for Deusto, Comillas and Advantere in Mateo Inurria, near the Esade campus, which will be operational in the next academic year 2024/2025.

What’s interesting here is the thought of coliving for religious communities.

We’ve seen throughout history that religion has been a deciding factor for people to live together and share the same values.

Religious coliving spaces - called monasteries in real life - have existed for centuries. Smaller student housing and religious fraternities have also been very successful over the last decades.

With the trend of “nichification”, we can be niching down not only on interests (“coliving spaces for artists or entrepreneurs”) and age groups (“coliving for young seniors”) but also religious affiliations.

I’m curious whether someone in this newsletter is actively working on a project along these lines!

Everything Else Coliving

• Outsite has partnered with Zoku to offer Members locations in Amsterdam, Paris, Copenhagen and Vienna. This partnership will allow Outsite members to have locations in Paris and Amsterdam - two highly desired cities amongst remote workers.
• School 42 has opened a campus for students that want to colive and cowork a few weeks in nature. The school - known for being one of the best coding schools yet completely free and without teachers - is completely remote and has work facilities in Paris, yet realized there was a desire of students to co-learn together.
• Work at a new large-scale coliving operator: one of France’s largest developers, VINCI, is looking for their COO/site director for their first 150 unit coliving site. Have a look here.
• Are you located in France? Then we highly recommend looking up the opportunities to join Cowool, one of our favorite coliving spaces. They’re looking for executive directors in their Cergy, Compiègne and Créteil.
• The Coliving Conference, hosted by Coliving Ventures in Amsterdam this year, announced its conference themes on LinkedIn.
• Node Living is about to launch its second location in Dublin. A mix between studios, open one bedrooms and a penthouse collection, this new project is a good example of hybrid products and offerings!
• PadSplit founder Atticus LeBlanc wrote his first newsletter called “One Room At A Time”. In this first piece, he makes some good points of housing accessibility, and showcases the PadSplit model.
• We really liked Jenna Harris’ 5min video on the current coliving market, her thoughts on trends, capital and success stories. This is high-quality coliving content production. Watch it here.
• Operate Colonies just announced that it reached “1 million nights” served. If we make the assumption that a resident stays on average 12 months, that means a total of 2,700 residents stayed for one year - great work!
• French coliving operator is soon going to operate a 1400m2 coliving project in… former water towers! Beautiful project.
• Yardi Systems, a multi-national real estate software company, decided to buy out WeWork. In the deal, Soft Bank remains minority share-owner, while most of WeWork’s debts will be liquidated. We can probably imagine the closure of many WeWork spaces whose leases will be cancelled, and there is a good chance the company can rebuild itself more sustainably. For a deeper analysis, we recommend the Thesis Driven analysis by Brad Hargreaves on that subject.

If you want us to cover anything, please mail it to us on coliving@artof.co

Gui Perdrix & Mayank Pokharna
The Artof.Co team

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