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Location, location, location

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 [...]

Housing co-operatives

The second of two posts about ways that sharing can help people find suitable accomodation solutions, specificaly looking at:

Homeshares – see previous post
Housing co-operatives – below

Housing co-operatives

For those who want to move on from the house/flat/home share scenario, who need more space and somewhere long term to live, and who may have children too, the [...]

Homeshares

Many people are struggling with housing costs, whether they want to rent or buy. Students and recent graduates are having a particularly hard time. If they want to buy in the future they need to save, but rents are so high that this can be impossible. Families with young children are also finding it difficult [...]

Shared living in Streatham

Last Sunday I was in the audience at the BBC’s The Big Questions programme.  I went along because one of the questions being discussed was “Is it still acceptable to have a second home?”  As you might expect my view is generally “yes, but I’d be happier if you shared it”.

One of the panellists was [...]

Car clubs

I’ve added a new page to yours2share explaining the various types of car clubs and all the associated terminology: fractional ownership, joint ownership, shared ownership, car share, liftshare etc etc.

I’m glad that the major managed car clubs such as City Car Club are starting to become more mainstream.  But I’m keen to ensure people [...]