We get asked to convert houses into co-living most weeks. We say no every time. Here is why. Retrofitting an existing house almost always compromises the spec, and it compromises it in the places tenants feel every single day. Bedroom sizes come out wrong, because you are working around walls someone else put there. Acoustic separation is patchy, because you cannot retrofit what was never designed in. Kitchenettes get squeezed into whatever is left. Storage disappears first, every time. None of that shows up in a render. All of it shows up in your vacancy rate. So we build new. Ground-up, on a residential lot, designed as co-living from day one rather than talked into it afterwards. Every bedroom purpose-built. Every home the same standard. That consistency is not a preference. It is the only reason we can put our name to the Double Guarantee. You cannot guarantee a valuation and an income on a building you had to compromise to create. Worth adding: from 1 July 2027, negative gearing applies to new builds only. We build new because the spec demands it. The tax settings landing on the same side is a bonus, not the reason. Which trade-off would you refuse to make on your build? Tell me below, or send us a message.

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