Co Living

Brundell Property has launched it's new brand Kosy Co Living that will oversee this side of the business and operation of our co living properties. We are delivering Brighton's first co living and co working village as part of this portfolio and Bath's first purpose-built co living scheme.

Explore all of our co living developments below.

Co-living is a new concept providing a place to live and work in a stimulating environment, shared with people from wide-ranging backgrounds and all services included.

It has emerged from the failure of traditional housing models – designed as single family/couple/person units – to offer this and increasingly do not suit the needs of Brighton’s residents, many of whom “see greater communality as part of how they want to live, work and thrive, but also as a way of [delaying] the oppressively big choices the current system imposes.” (RSA research, 2018)

Co-living seeks to build community, encourage social exchange across diverse groups and promote the sharing of skills, experiences and ideas. The co-living concept proposed at Melbourne Street in Brighton represents a 21st Century take on the old and ever-evolving form of intentional community and is part of a rapidly growing trend towards compact city-centre living, offering flexible leases and in which many facilities are shared.

Co-working is an equally socially motivated pattern of working with a core purpose of increasing collaboration between small businesses as a means to generating new ideas. By combining co-living with co-working, the development responds to the increasingly flexible ways that many people today live and work.

Priced out of home ownership, many expect to rent their homes for longer. Unlike Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) and other traditional types of housing, co living explicitly seeks to promote social contact and build community. Research by the Office of National Statistics found that almost 10% of young people were “always or often lonely”, a figure three times higher than those 65 and older. Co living adds additional choice of housing for an important group, bringing with it the wellbeing benefits of being part of a community within easy walking or cycling distance of the city centre.

Research by the Royal Society of Arts concludes that “the fundamental failing of housing today in many parts of the UK is that instead of the system existing and evolving around the needs of the people, the people must bend and constrain their capabilities and hopes to fit the vagaries of the system. Co-living today offers an important way of helping some people in some places find an answer that works for them.”



The self employed and small businesses are a key part of the economy, particularly in the technology, creative and environmental sectors. As with housing, high quality, flexible and affordable office accommodation is in short supply and the same is true for residential accommodation for a group that expects. These factors together mean many young people are seeking a more social flexible living environment than can be provided by traditional C3 use class housing, and which combines the sort of collaborative environment offered by co-working. The proposed development provides exactly this sort of accommodation.