Building the market for co-buying.
Creating the demand, trust and infrastructure needed to make buying together a credible route to homeownership.
Creating the demand, trust and infrastructure needed to make buying together a credible route to homeownership.
The traditional route into homeownership is no longer working for a growing number of people.
CoHaus is building the demand, trust and infrastructure needed to help people explore buying a home together and to progress from initial interest towards becoming informed, prepared and purchase-ready co-buyers.
Many people can afford significant monthly housing costs but are still unable to buy a home on their own.
They may have stable incomes, established careers and a history of paying rent, yet individual affordability assessments, deposit requirements and rising property prices continue to keep homeownership out of reach.
The issue is not always an inability to meet the cost of housing. The traditional model assumes people will purchase individually or as a couple.
CoHaus is exploring a different route.
Co-buying allows two or more people to combine their deposits, incomes and borrowing capacity to purchase a property together.
For friends, siblings, relatives, partners or compatible individuals, this could provide a more realistic route into homeownership than continuing to rent or waiting indefinitely to buy alone.
However, co-buying is not yet a simple or widely understood process.
Prospective co-buyers need help to understand:
CoHaus is being developed to address these barriers.
People who may benefit from co-buying do not currently gather in one identifiable place.
They are renters, people living with parents, prospective first-time buyers, separated individuals, single-income households and others who may be able to buy—but not alone.
Our immediate focus is therefore to create a destination where those people can gather, share their experiences, learn about alternative routes into homeownership and begin exploring co-buying.
That destination is CoHaus.Life.
By developing the community first, CoHaus can better understand the needs, concerns and behaviours of prospective co-buyers before introducing more complex financial, matching and transaction services.
CoHaus.Life is the consumer-facing community and demand engine being developed by CoHaus.
It is designed for people affected by housing affordability who want to discuss their experiences, understand their options and explore whether buying with others could work for them.
CoHaus.Life will provide a place to:
CoHaus.Life is not simply a content platform. It is the first stage of a longer pathway towards informed and transaction-ready co-buying.
Visit CoHaus.Life to join the conversation, learn more about co-buying and explore alternative routes into homeownership.
Visit the CoHaus blog for perspectives, insights and commentary on affordability, homeownership and the developing co-buying market.
CoHaus was founded in response to a simple observation: many people are spending enough on housing to support a mortgage, but remain unable to purchase because they are attempting to do so alone.
We believe that co-buying could help address this affordability gap, but only if prospective buyers are given the information, structure, safeguards and support required to proceed with confidence.
CoHaus is currently focused on building the audience, community and market insight needed to develop that solution responsibly.
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