Spain: Proptech company Housfy has diversified into coliving, with initial properties in Barcelona and Madrid.
The Barcelona-based company aims to rent 50 rooms through Housfy Coliving this year and to increase this figure to 750 a year by 2025.
For property owners, Housfy Coliving says it offers a guaranteed fixed return of between seven and 10 per cent.
Housfy says it will will use matching algorithms to select tenants with the same characteristics. It will also offer virtual property tours and design and decoration services, with the latter “allowing a property to be ready in less than a week.”
“Coliving comes to the Housfy ecosystem of services to add one more solution to the existing ones and satisfy the needs of tenants looking for short-term rentals; for us it means completing the circle of leasing services that we offer: residential, seasonal (in the works) and coliving,” said founder and CEO Albert Bosch.
Jordi Cid, global director of operations at Housfy, added: “Coliving is one of the trends that we have been observing since 2022 … we detected that the demand for this type of lease was growing significantly and we saw the need to optimise the provision of the service through our technology… Barcelona is a city of temporary transit for many students and workers who need a 100% equipped apartment, zero worries and a community to enjoy.”
