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Transparency
An index is a measure — published, comparable, honest. Where most developers chase aspiration, we publish what we charge and how we built it. The word commits us to fairness before the brochure even opens.
About Index Living
Index, noun. A pointer, a reference, a measure.
Index Living designs homes, communities and rhythms for the years that shape you — the decade between leaving home and finding it.
The brand
A name that earns trust before it sells.
The choice of word matters. An index is a reference, not a sales tool. The word commits us to a way of working — measurable, comparable, honest — before the brochure even opens.
02
Inclusion
An index lists everyone — every entry has its place. Co-living, student, affordable rental — three audiences the market quietly excludes. Index Living puts them in the same catalogue, with the same standard of design.
03
Modernity
Editorial, library-led, intelligent — without snobbery. The word reads contemporary today and will still read contemporary in twenty years. Index belongs to the present we are building.
The architecture
One parent brand, three product lines.
Index Living scales by audience, not by location. Three sub-brands under one parent let investors, buyers and lenders see at a glance what kind of asset and audience they are looking at.
Product line 01
Index Co
Co-living. Private studios with shared kitchens, lounges and a programmed social calendar. Built for graduates priced out of the one-bed market.
Product line 02
Index Study
Purpose-built student accommodation. Where the library aesthetic earns its keep — calm, considered rooms designed for reading, sleeping and finishing the degree.
Product line 03
Index Home
Affordable residential. Indexed pricing — rents and sale prices benchmarked to local median earnings. A policy commitment, marketed as one.
The people
Sixty years of property and construction.
A chartered surveyor and a construction director — the two people to take Index from drawing to door. The team is small by design. Decisions are made by the people whose names are on the door.
Co-founder · Development Director
Jamie Ludlow
- BSc (Hons)
- MRICS
- 20+ years
- £75M+ delivered
Jamie is a Chartered Surveyor with over twenty years of property experience. Over the past decade he has delivered more than £75 million of mixed-use retail, residential, and purpose-built student accommodation schemes across the UK.
Previously advised LaSalle Asset Management, M&G Real Estate and Schroders. Earlier career at Cushman & Wakefield and Leslie Furness — major instructions including Land Securities' £250m Whitefriars (Canterbury) and Centros Miller's £110m Fremlin Walk (Maidstone).
Focus at Index Living: land assembly, financial structuring, project delivery.
Co-founder · Construction Director
Guy Hayden
- HNC · HND · BNC (Essex)
- 40+ years
- Director, Peak Group London
Guy has more than forty years of hands-on experience in the UK construction industry. Starting in his family's groundworks company, he has gone on to establish and grow multiple contracting and development businesses before co-founding Peak Group London Ltd.
Project experience includes a 70-bed hotel at London Stansted Airport and numerous large-scale residential and mixed-use regeneration schemes from £1m to £6m+. Compliance experience under Government-backed housing programmes (Decent Homes).
Focus at Index Living: construction methodology, procurement, and risk management — the bridge between drawing and delivery.
60+
Years combined property & construction
3
Product lines under one brand
£75M+
Personally delivered, past decade
Previous delivery experience
Buildings already delivered.
A selection of completed residential and student schemes from the team's UK portfolio — the kinds of building Index Living is now designing, planned, costed and run before.
Index Study
Coventry — student accommodation
Conversion of a 125-bedroom former city-centre Travelodge into purpose-built student accommodation. Private rooms with kitchen pods, hard-wired study areas, communal lounges, and a sixty-rack bike store. Delivered under time and within budget for the academic year.
Index Home
Packet Boat House — 41 apartments
Conversion and extension of a 1970s concrete-clad office building into forty-one apartments for a housing association. Two additional floors added in lightweight structure. BREEAM-compliant and Secured by Design.
Mixed-use
Ada Street — 9 flats over retail
Brick-clad new-build infill scheme on a canal-side plot, with retail at ground and nine flats over. Designed to fit the simple warehouse aesthetic of the surrounding street — a spiritual cousin to Volume One.
"For the years that shape you."
What's next
The first building in development.
Index Living's first scheme is in design and pre-construction in South East London. More to follow — each addressed by place, joining the Index Living network as it comes online.