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Student Co-op Homes

A groundbreaking new force in student housing

  • ABOUT
    • OUR CO-OP MEMBERS
    • OUR BOARD DIRECTORS
    • Strategy summary, 2022 – 2025
    • Our partners
  • GET INVOLVED
    • Apply to join SCH as a user member* (*student housing co-op)
    • Volunteering
    • CO-OPTED DIRECTOR VACANCIES
  • INVEST
  • IMPACT
    • Success stories: Fay Arnold
    • Success stories: Martin Bradbury
    • Success stories: Patrick Whelan
  • RESOURCES
    • Funding for your co-op
    • USEFUL LINKS
    • RESEARCH
    • FAQ’s
  • CONTACT
  • NEWS
    • Confederation of Co-operative Housing Awards (CCH)
    • European Student Housing Co-op gathering
    • April 2022
    • March 2022

ABOUT

Student Co-op Homes is a national member led co-operative controlled by student housing co-ops and investor supporter members. It is established to promote, enable and scale-up student co-operative housing in the UK.

Student Co-op Homes’ main function is to be a vehicle for property acquisition and development to support its member getting access to housing.

We also support new and established student housing co-ops with training and advice on how to set-up and manage their co-op.

Our vision is to create a thriving student housing co-op movement, to take properties out of the speculative private market, to empower students and to build a strong co-operative economy.

You can download our rules here

Student Co-op Homes model:

The property market is highly competitive. Private landlords quickly snap up houses and easily outbid individual student housing co-ops. That’s where Student Co-ops Homes comes in!

Through a mix of investments and steady rental income from members, Student Co-op Homes can act as the financial force behind the movement and even compete with cash buyers.

Leasing properties to our student co-op members provides a reliable income and allows us to build our own reserves to finance property acquisitions. It also means we are building a property assets portfolio against which to secure mortgage finance to expand and grow even further.

Student Co-op Homes has created a pioneer co-operative model enabling student housing co-ops to combine their resources to grow their own sector.

OUR SUPPORTERS

  • Student Co-op Homes is now supported by over 160 investor supporter members who generously invested in our share offer
  • The start-up and incubation of Student Co‑op Homes have also been generously supported by Co-operatives UK, The Midcounties Co‑operative, East of England Co‑operative, The Reach Fund and Students for Co-operation.


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  • ABOUT
    • Sample Page
    • Back
  • OUR BOARD DIRECTORS
  • GET INVOLVED
  • CO-OPTED DIRECTOR VACANCIES
  • RESOURCES
  • Funding for your co-op
  • RESEARCH
  • OUR CO-OP MEMBERS
  • USEFUL LINKS
  • FAQ’s
  • Strategy summary, 2022 – 2025
  • Apply to join SCH as a user member* (*student housing co-op)
  • MEMBERSHIP NEWS
  • STUDENT CO-OP HOMES NEWS
  • STUDENT CO-OP HOMES NEWS
  • March 2022
  • April 2022
  • Volunteering
  • Our partners
  • HOME2
  • European Student Housing Co-op gathering
  • Governance
  • Confederation of Co-operative Housing Awards (CCH)