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The shortage
Britain is short by more than four million homes. Build-to-rent races to serve the wealthy. Student PBSA serves freshers. Almost nobody is purpose-building for the decade in between.
A new residential platform
Index Living
For the years that shape you.
Index Living designs homes for the decade between leaving home and finding it. Co-living, student housing, affordable rental — three audiences the market has forgotten, in one Index.
About Index Living →Why now
Britain's biggest economic problem is also our market.
The UK is short by more than four million homes. Build-to-rent races to serve the wealthy. Student PBSA serves freshers. Almost nobody is purpose-building for the decade in between. Index Living is that brand.
02
The squeeze
Graduates with good jobs cannot afford to live alone in the cities they work in. The 'starter flat' has effectively disappeared. Sharing a damp Victorian conversion is the only option left.
03
The silence
Twenty-something loneliness has become a public-health story. People rent alone in shoeboxes, work from home, and stop making friends. Co-living isn't a lifestyle gimmick — it's a structural answer.
Where Index Living fits
An entire life-stage with no proper home.
Two demographic shifts are converging. Students are staying past graduation. Graduates can't afford to leave shared living. The market is collapsing into one product — and almost nobody is purpose-building it.
Age 18
School
with parents
18 – 21
Halls
purpose-built student
21 – 32
Index
the gap we build for
32+
Mortgage
if you're lucky
The product
Three things, beautifully done.
An Index Living building isn't just designed apartments. It is three deliberately joined-up things — the private, the shared, and the social rhythm that turns neighbours into a network.
The rooms
Private en-suites and small studios
All bills, super-fast Wi-Fi, contents cover and a weekly clean — included. Designed for people who actually live in cities, not show-flat residents.
The home
Shared kitchens, proper sofas, a screening room
Co-working with real desks. A gym, a garden. Communal spaces sized for community, not for show.
The rhythm
Resident dinners, workshops, run clubs at dawn
A house culture that turns neighbours into a network. The amenity is the people.
In the pipeline
First building in development.
Our first scheme is in design and pre-construction in South East London — the start of an Index Living network, with each new building addressed by place.
"Somewhere between halls and a mortgage, a generation has been forgotten. We're building for them."