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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 [...] We’ve a great new boat sharing case study, Andrew A has sold a share in his Fairline Phantom 48 based in Mallorca, to create a new private syndicate using Net Lawman’s contract templates. Read about it here. After many months hard work, we’ve now launched the new yours2share website. Please have a look! Many thanks to Ruth Cheesley of Virya Technologies for her help with this Joomla based system. The new yours2share has a forum and directory dedicated to everything related to private syndicates and all things sharing. Over the next few weeks I [...] I loved this piece in yesterday’s Sunday Telegraph about four men who have just sailed across the Atlantic on a raft called Antiki. The four ranged in age from 56 to 85. It has several lovely aspects, but the bit that pleased me the most was Mr Smith advertised five years ago for “OAPs” to [...] I’ve just finished reading “What’s Mine Is Yours: How Collaborative Consumption is Changing the Way We Live” by Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers. It’s thought-provoking and highly readable. Many of its peers are the former, but rarely the latter, and for this reason I’ll admit that I was putting off reading it, even though it’s [...] I’ve just added a post to Shareable.net’s excellent website about every aspect of sharing. It is an introductory piece explaining the basics issues to be discussed when you are creating a new private syndicate, called How to share the big stuff. I often comment on articles about fractional ownership and timeshare: they aren’t the easiest conscepts to understand and their are many misconceptions. However this recent article on ehow is probably the most misleading and garbled I’ve seen in a long time. Unfortunately there is obviously a limit on the number of characters in a comment, [...] I’ve been writing a newsletter for yours2share for nearly four years now. Except for the first few months all of them have been managed through the excellent ConstantContact. I only recently realised that I could have an archive of newsletters. So here is the yours2share newsletter archive. Click here if you’d like to subscribe: you can [...] I’ve just stumbled upon this article written recently in the FT – a crafty investment. I’m pleased to see any proper debate about fractional ownership: too often the discussion is either, oh it’s just timeshare, or it’s just a way of pretending you are a millionaire. Not that I have anything specifically against timeshare applied to [...] |
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