The best coliving platforms in Europe in 2026: who’s still operating after Selina and Remote Year
Really, the mobile remote work industry is a rapidly changing one and not always in the direction of growth. If you tried to book a Selina property in late 2024, you would have run into a 404 page. If you tried to renew your Remote Year membership in early 2025, you would have received an email saying the company had ceased operations. If you went to Roam’s website in May 2026, you would find a message explaining that the company is “taking the year off” while it restructures.
The European coliving aggregator landscape is one aspect that has reshaped substantially in the last 18 months, and most of the existing internet coverage has not caught up. Several of the names that defined the “digital nomad coliving” category from 2015 to 2023 are no longer operational. The platforms that survived have re-positioned around the gaps they left, and remote workers booking monthly stays in 2026 are working with a meaningfully different menu than the one they were working with two years ago.
This piece walks through the European coliving landscape as it actually is in May 2026. Which platforms are still operating, what each one is good for, and how to choose between them when you are planning a longer European stay. All facts are verified against the operators’ own current sites and recent trade press; where Perplexity-generated claims could not be confirmed, they were excluded.
What happened to Selina, Remote Year, and Roam
The three biggest disruptions to the sector happened within an 18-month window.
Selina Hospitality declared insolvency in July 2024 after years of cash-flow strain. The company was sold five weeks later to Collective Hospitality, a Singapore-based group. Of approximately 100 Selina properties, around 60 were closed and 29 were relaunched under the new “Socialtel” brand in March 2025 – primarily in South and Central America. The European Selina chapter is essentially closed. The remaining Socialtel footprint is not a credible European booking option.
Remote Year was acquired by Collective Hospitality as part of the same deal, then shut down in December 2024 with the company citing “circumstances beyond our control.” The trips-based community programme that had defined the structured-nomad experience for nearly a decade closed without a transition plan. Members lost remaining trip credits; some former employees have since launched related ventures.
Roam Co-Living, the global-membership coliving pioneer, has been dormant since 2024. Roam’s website confirms the company is “taking the year off” while restructuring. None of the Roam-branded properties are bookable in 2026. Several former Roam locations have been taken over by other operators (Sonder in San Francisco; Socialtel in Miami; Collective in London).
The sector’s collapse pattern was largely the same in each case: scaling too fast pre-pandemic, debt-financed expansion, weak unit economics on community programming, and inability to recover when 2022-23 post-lockdown nomad demand softened from peak. The shake-out has been brutal, but the survivors are now genuinely viable businesses, which is a healthier state than the sector had reached at the peak.
Marketplace aggregators that survived
For most remote workers looking for a monthly European coliving stay, three marketplace aggregators are the practical starting point.
Coliving.com is the largest aggregator by inventory. The platform claims over 2,000 homes, 40,000 rooms, 400+ destinations, and 115,000+ members as of May 2026. European inventory is deep: Barcelona has 106 listed spaces; Berlin around 32. The model is capital-light – Coliving.com aggregates listings from independent operators rather than owning property itself. Pricing in Europe typically ranges from €700 to €2,300 per month for private rooms. Trustpilot reviews verified live at approximately 4.0/5 across 200+ reviews, with complaints centred on cancellation fees and pricing discrepancies between the platform and operator direct sites.
The strongest use case for Coliving.com is breadth – if you do not know which European city you want and you want to comparison-shop across many options, the platform’s catalogue is unmatched. The weakness is that Coliving.com cannot guarantee quality across the long tail of small operators it lists; you are still doing the operator-level due diligence yourself.
Flatio, founded in 2015 in Prague, has emerged as the most operationally distinctive platform in the European market. Stays from 5 days to 12 months, deposit-free under 6 months, no guarantor required. The deposit-free feature is the standout differentiator in a sector that traditionally requires meaningful upfront commitment. Flatio focuses on European cities with strength in Czechia, Portugal, Spain, and Italy; the platform absorbed NomadX’s accommodation inventory in 2020, which gave it a Portugal foothold the brand still capitalises on. Trustpilot reviews verified live at approximately 4.1/5 across 700+ reviews – the highest verified rating in the marketplace category. Pricing varies widely by city.
HousingAnywhere, while not marketing itself as a coliving brand, operates at meaningful scale in the same adjacent space. Europe’s largest mid-to-long-term rental platform, covering 125+ European cities, with the Kamernet (Netherlands) and Studapart (France) brands under the same group. Skews toward students and young professionals rather than mid-career remote workers. The platform’s Q4 2025 rent index is interesting in its own right: it recorded the first meaningful softening in years – European rooms down 3.1%, apartments down 1.3%, studios down 4.4% year-on-year. After several years of compounding rent inflation, this matters for monthly-stay budgeting.
Branded operators worth knowing
Three branded operators stand out for delivering consistent experience at scale.
Outsite has become the de-facto premium remote-pro coliving brand in Europe. Founded in 2015, independent ownership, hybrid model of managed houses plus curated partner network. The European footprint mid-2026 includes Lisbon (Cais do Sodré and Intendente locations), Porto (Mouço), Ericeira (a strong remote-work hub in its own right), Amsterdam (via Zoku partnership), and Barcelona. Outsite claims 28 spaces worldwide. Pricing sits at the premium end – roughly €1,800 to €3,500 per month for private rooms, with utilities, wifi, coworking access, and community events included. The brand positions to mid-career remote professionals; the design language is consistent across locations and the operational standards are reliable. Couples-friendly; not family-positioned.
Habyt has been the European market consolidator since its 2017 founding in Berlin. The company raised €40M in Series C in October 2023 and was on an aggressive global expansion track. The 2026 picture is materially different: Habyt sold its APAC operations (approximately 1,000 units) to Mitsubishi Estate Co, and sold its France, Spain, and Portugal coliving portfolios to local operators during 2025. The verified current European footprint is now concentrated in Berlin (the Waterfront flagship plus 349 new units across two new buildings, with a 317-unit DOXS NKLN building coming in 2028), Madrid (Truliving Vallecas and Atipico Madrid), and Vienna (Green Cube). Lisbon and Milan are listed as “coming soon.” The retreat from sprawl to European core is the right strategic move; Habyt in 2026 is a credible Germany/DACH-and-Madrid operator rather than the global player it positioned as in 2023.
Sun and Co. is the cult outlier. A single 14-bed coliving house in Jávea, Spain, operating since 2015. Annual revenue around $1M as of 2026 – small-scale by design. Sun and Co. has won “best community coliving” 2021 and “best for digital nomads” 2022 awards. The model is the opposite of Habyt’s: one location, refined over a decade, with community quality as the defining feature. For remote workers who want the original small-scale coliving experience that the larger brands tried and largely failed to scale, Sun and Co. is the closest you will find in 2026.
Community programs (not properties)
Two operators worth knowing if community is the priority rather than the physical accommodation.
WiFi Tribe, founded in 2016, runs monthly trip-based community programs rather than properties. Approximately 700 members across 62 nationalities. European trips in 2026 include destinations in Spain, Scotland, and Cyprus. The pricing model is annual: roughly $15,000 for shared accommodation across a year of trips, or $20,000 for private rooms. The model attracts remote workers who would otherwise feel isolated in solo mid-term rentals and who value the curated rotating community over location-specific community.
NOMA Collective is the successor to Hacker Paradise, which merged with the NOMA brand in late 2024. The post-Remote-Year vacuum at the structured-nomad-community end of the market is being filled primarily by NOMA Collective and WiFi Tribe. European destinations include Albania, Romania, and Malta. Lower price points than WiFi Tribe and shorter program durations.
Anyplace: the apartment-with-no-community option
Worth flagging separately because it serves a distinct use case. Anyplace, founded in 2017, is a marketplace aggregator focused on serviced apartments and extended-stay hotels with month-to-month booking. Verified European cities include London, Berlin, Madrid, and Lisbon. Partner inventory includes Gravity Co-living, Studios2Let, Projects, and Outsite. Pricing typically €1,500 to €3,500 per month all-inclusive.
The Anyplace use case is specific: remote workers who want their own front door, their own kitchen, and explicitly do not want a community to perform belonging in. For solo professionals over 35 who would find the standard coliving social model exhausting, Anyplace is the cleanest option in 2026. And for couples it could be a perfect option.
The over-50s gap
A genuinely underserved segment in the current European coliving landscape is the over-50 remote worker. The fastest-growing demographic in European nomading is now in their fifties and sixties (covered in more depth in our Silver Nomad piece), and almost none of the major aggregators have specifically positioned to serve them.
The platforms that come closest by accident:
- Sun and Co. in Jávea attracts a more mature demographic than its marketing suggests, partly because the small-scale community model translates better to the over-50 social style than the larger party-vibe coliving operations.
- Flatio’s whole-apartment listings work for over-50 remote workers who want their own kitchen and bedroom with no shared-house compromises.
- Anyplace’s serviced-apartment model serves the same need from a different angle – private accommodation with the booking flexibility of a coliving aggregator.
Almost no European coliving operator has actively positioned for the over-50 segment with dedicated programming, demographic-appropriate community events, or specific accommodation design (private kitchens, dedicated workspaces, less party-noise consideration).
This is one of the clearer opportunities in the sector for an operator who wants to build something that does not currently exist at scale, and if the right entrepreneur is reading this then Maya is standing by to consult with!
The 2026 price story
After several years of compounding rent inflation that pushed European coliving from “value alternative to apartment rental” to “premium-priced product,” the end of 2025 produced the first meaningful softening in years.
HousingAnywhere’s Q4 2025 International Rent Index showed European rooms down 3.1%, apartments down 1.3%, and studios down 4.4% year-on-year. Coliving aggregators followed in the first half of 2026, with most operators holding pricing steady rather than continuing the annual increases that had become standard. Hidden mandatory community fees that proliferated during the Selina era have been largely cleaned up post-collapse.
For remote workers planning longer European stays in 2026, the practical implication is that the negotiating position has improved. Multi-month stays in particular are now more negotiable than they were in 2023-24. This is not a return to 2017 prices, but it is the first time in several years that the trend is moving in the renter’s favour rather than the operator’s.
How to actually pick
The decision logic that fits most remote workers planning a European coliving stay in 2026:
| Use case | Recommended platform |
|---|---|
| Solo professional, low community pressure | Anyplace |
| Family nomads, kid-compatible, longer stays | Flatio (whole-apartment, deposit-free) |
| Over-50 nomads (private kitchen, calm vibe) | Sun and Co. or Flatio apartment |
| Genuine community + network effects | WiFi Tribe or NOMA Collective |
| Design quality + remote-pro vibe | Outsite |
| Best value | Flatio in Czechia / Portugal, Habyt in Berlin / Madrid |
| Mediterranean | Sun and Co. (Jávea), Outsite (Ericeira) |
| Iberia generally | Outsite + Flatio |
| Germany / DACH | Habyt |
| Eastern Europe / Balkans | NOMA Collective + Coliving.com marketplace |
| First-time coliver wanting to comparison-shop | Coliving.com |
| Deposit-averse | Flatio |
The shake-out has left a healthier sector than the pre-collapse peak. The platforms that survived are operationally viable, the pricing is softening, and the practical map for a remote worker booking a monthly European stay is clearer than it has been since 2022. The remaining gap – serving the over-50 demographic specifically – is the opportunity the next generation of operators has not yet taken.
A note on Connected
Diana hand-picks European-friendly remote roles every week for Connected, our curated weekly job club. The roles that work cleanly with extended-stay coliving rhythms – flexible time zones, async-first cultures, European-friendly employment – get flagged specifically.
This piece reflects the European coliving landscape as of May 2026. Operator status, pricing, and inventory change quarterly – verify current offerings directly with each platform before booking. Trustpilot scores cited were verified live; older review aggregations may show different numbers. For the broader trend on over-50 European remote workers, see our Silver Nomad piece.
