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Last night’s edition of Channel 4′s Location, location, location with Kirsty Allsopp and Phil Spencer was interesting as it showed three friends buying a property in London together. What I particularly liked was this was a sensible look at the shared option, with the neither the pros or cons sensationalised, just simply laid out. It struck [...] Looking back at 2011, one the biggest areas of change has been sharing cars (sharing the ownership of cars rather than the equally important lift sharing). Cars represent a huge opportunity for sharing because of the number of very expensive assets which spend the vast proportion of their time unused. Shared ownership of cars [...] Over the last five years there has been an increase in tenants letting accommodation on a Monday to Friday basis. Usually these are people who work away from home and had become fed up with living in hotels or bed and breakfasts all week. There are some major advantages for Monday to Friday landlords compared with [...] Sharing, or “Collaborative Consumption” as it is often now called, really started to gain traction in 2011. I started yours2share in 2006 and frankly most people thought I was insane. Now I hear about new sharing related websites daily and it seems like all my friends and relations are busy Couchsurfing, AirBnB-ing, freecycling, car clubbing, [...] |
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