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Coliving Software and Operations
Guides and playbooks for coliving operators: per-bed inventory, pricing, community, and the metrics that actually matter.
Void Period Cost: How to Calculate and Reduce It
An empty bed costs more than the rent it is not earning. Standing costs keep running, the turnaround has a price, and remarketing takes time. This is the full void cost stack, a worked example per gap, how to annualise it across a portfolio, and the break-even discount that tells you how hard to fight for an early move-in.
Per-Bed vs Per-Unit PMS Pricing: What You Actually Pay
Two vendors can quote wildly different headline numbers and cost you the same, or quote the same number and cost you double, because they price on different units. Here is how per-bed and per-unit PMS pricing actually work, the break-even multiplier that decides which is cheaper for your portfolio, and the hidden line items to normalise before you compare.
RevPAB Explained: The Coliving Yield Metric
Occupancy and rate each tell half the story. RevPAB combines them into one yield number. Here is the formula, a worked example you can copy into a spreadsheet, how it relates to RevPAU, and how to benchmark it against your own portfolio rather than a borrowed figure.
Per-Bed vs Per-Room Inventory: Why Coliving Software Needs Both
Most property management systems treat inventory as a hierarchy: properties contain units, units have a status (occupied/vacant). For traditional residential and vacation rentals, this works. For coliving and shared living, this hierarchy fundamentally breaks. Coliving require...
Per-Bed Reporting KPIs: What Top Coliving Operators Actually Track
Per-bed inventory unlocks per-bed reporting, and per-bed reporting unlocks decisions you can't make from property-level dashboards. This guide covers the 8 bed-level KPIs top coliving operators track, why each matters, and how to set up tracking that drives real operational ch...
Migrating from Per-Property to Per-Bed Inventory: Step-by-Step
If your current PMS treats properties or rooms as the inventory unit but you operate coliving, you're patching gaps with spreadsheets. Migrating to per-bed inventory unlocks operational depth, but the migration itself is risky if done badly. This guide walks through the 6-week...
How to Choose a Coliving PMS in 2026: 12-Point Buyer's Checklist
Choosing a property management system for a coliving operation is one of the highest-leverage decisions you'll make. Pick well, and your operations team scales effortlessly across 50+ properties. Pick poorly, and you'll spend the next two years patching spreadsheets and switch...
Housemate Matching Algorithms: How They Work (And Why Most Don't)
Housemate matching is the most important predictor of coliving resident satisfaction and renewal, and it's also the most poorly executed feature in most PMS platforms. Bad matching produces awkward shared kitchens, escalated complaints, and early move-outs. Good matching produ...
Coliving Operations Metrics: KPIs That Actually Matter (Not Just Occupancy)
Most coliving operators track three metrics: occupancy, revenue, and complaints. Those numbers tell you what happened, they don't tell you why or what to do next. To run a coliving operation that scales profitably, you need a wider metric stack covering financial efficiency, r...
Coliving NPS Benchmarks 2026: What Good Resident Satisfaction Looks Like
Net Promoter Score (NPS) is the most widely used resident satisfaction metric in coliving, but most operators have no idea what 'good' looks like. Without a benchmark, an NPS of 32 might feel acceptable when it's actually concerning, or a 65 might feel fine when it could be 80...
Coliving Lease Templates: Legal Structures by Country (2026 Guide)
The legal contract you use with coliving residents shapes everything downstream, from how you handle deposits and notice periods to whether evictions are even possible. Choose the wrong structure and you could face costly tribunal disputes or be unable to remove problem reside...
Bed-Level Pricing Strategies: 5 Patterns That Work in Coliving
Most coliving operators price by room type, single, double, triple. This leaves money on the table. The same bed can be worth £100/month more than another in the same room based on attributes residents actually pay for. This guide covers 5 bed-level pricing patterns that can l...