At a time when house prices in many New Zealand cities are at record highs, it’s worth thinking outside the box when it comes to owning property. Co-housing is a clever alternative, only recently gaining some momentum in New Zealand. A group of people pitch in together, buy land and develop houses, townhouses or apartments as a collective. While that might make you think of a 1970s-style hippy commune or religious cult, today’s co-housing is far from that. It’s a modern sharing of resources and funds to achieve a more sociable style of living.
While co-housing has been popular in Scandinavia since the 60s and exists in parts of the US and Australia, it hasn’t been huge here so far. This could be about to change, as two new co-housing
