Solutions/Co-living
Co-living operations, run to one standard in every house
Opago runs the operational side of co-living: communal area cleaning, in-room housekeeping for residents, turnovers between move-outs and move-ins, linen and maintenance. We already do it across 15 coliving houses in Paris, around 300 rooms, for Cohabs.
For co-living operators, coliving and shared living brands, co-living developers and investors, and the operators running flexible and community-led housing in London and Paris.
Co-livingStandards that hold, rooms that turn fast, and residents who renew
Co-living moves faster than any other long-stay product. Rooms turn over at the end of every month, shared spaces are in use all day, and residents judge the house daily and renew on the strength of it. That puts the commercial case squarely on the operation.
What you are aiming for, and how we get you there
A team that holds the standard
What you wantCommunal areas done properly on every visit, not just in the first month of the contract.
How we get thereA written specification for each house, trained into the same team week after week, with inspections that carry on long after the first few months.
Turnovers that keep pace with move-outs
What you wantA room cleaned, checked and ready to re-let within a day of somebody leaving, however many go at once.
How we get thereTurnovers planned against your move-in calendar, with a deep clean, linen and condition check on each, and capacity held for end-of-month clusters.
An operations team that moves at your speed
What you wantSchedules that change when the house does, without renegotiating anything.
How we get thereA field team that flexes week to week, with extra cover for move-in waves, events and peaks, recruited and managed in-house by Opago.
Residents who renew
What you wantFewer rooms coming back to market, and the reviews and referrals that fill the ones that do.
How we get thereThe things residents actually judge — clean shared spaces, housekeeping they trust and issues closed quickly — delivered the same way in every house.
How we work with you across the house
Every service we run works differently in a co-living house, and most operators end up using all of them. One team from the first survey onwards, so you never have to stitch suppliers together.
Onboard
We survey the house room by room with your team, agree the standard in writing, and deep clean to bring the house up to it before the first scheduled visit. Inventories and records are set up from day one.
Onboarding & setupPrepare
Kitchens, lounges, co-working, gyms and laundry rooms on a frequency matched to how hard each one is used, with in-room housekeeping, linen and towels on the same schedule.
Cleaning and linenOperate
Our field team on the ground for resident access, viewings, move-ins and the issues that come up during the week, 8am to 8pm, seven days.
Guest & field supportMaintain
Repairs raised by our cleaners as they spot them and by residents when they report them, carried out by qualified trades and tracked until closed, with emergency cover out of hours.
MaintenanceProtect
Condition records between residents, plus the checks a shared house needs — fire alarms and emergency lighting, gas, electrical and fire risk assessments — tracked in one calendar.
ComplianceSee it all
Every house, every visit and every open issue in one view, so the next house in London or Paris runs to the same specification.
The Opago platformThree ways co-living operators work with us
Start with the communal areas, or hand over the whole operation. Most operators begin with one house.
Communal area cleaning
The shared heart of the house, cleaned on a schedule that matches how residents use it.
- Kitchens, dining and lounges
- Co-working, gyms and laundry rooms
- Shared bathrooms, hallways and stairs
In-room housekeeping
Scheduled housekeeping in residents’ rooms, the service that makes co-living feel serviced.
- Room cleans on a schedule residents know
- Linen and towels changed and laundered
- Access and timing agreed in advance
- The same team each visit
Turnovers between residents
Rooms turned round between a move-out and the next move-in.
- Deep clean after every move-out
- Condition recorded room by room
- Maintenance closed before the next resident arrives
Every shared space, on a schedule
Co-living lives or dies on its shared spaces. These are the ones we cover, and the reason each one matters.
Kitchens and dining
The most used and most complained-about room in any co-living house, cleaned on the days it needs it rather than once a week.
Lounges and co-working
The spaces residents choose you for, reset so they are usable in the morning and after events.
Gyms, laundry and bike stores
The amenity that sells the room at viewing and quietly deteriorates if nobody owns it.
Bedrooms and en-suites
Scheduled housekeeping while residents are in place, and a deep clean when they leave.
How we take on a co-living house
Why co-living operators choose Opago
- We already run co-livingSince October 2024 we have run day-to-day operations across all 15 Cohabs houses in Paris, around 300 rooms: communal cleaning, in-room housekeeping and turnovers between residents. Read the Cohabs story.
- Trusted by co-living brandsCohabs and Mason & Fifth are Opago clients. Design-led operators hold a standard, and we hold it with them.
- In-room housekeeping, done properlyCleaning an occupied bedroom is a trust exercise. The same vetted, trained team returns each week.
- Onboarding residents do not noticeWe survey, specify and deep clean before taking over, so a change of provider is not felt in the house.
- London and ParisOperators expanding across both cities get one partner, one standard and one set of reporting.
- Sustainability residents ask aboutEco-certified products, bamboo washroom consumables, electric vans across London and carbon offsetting through our Ecologi partnership.
Every kind of shared-living operation
Cohabs and Mason & Fifth are both Opago clients. Co-living runs from a single large house to a building of a hundred rooms, and the shared spaces decide how it feels in all of them.
Want to see how this would work across your houses?
Talk to us about co-livingFrom a house that needs chasing to one that runs itself
In co-living the product is the experience of living there. Communal areas that are always ready, housekeeping residents can rely on and rooms that turn round cleanly all show up in retention, reviews and the speed at which a room re-lets.
Residents who stay longer
Shared spaces that are always ready are the clearest daily proof that the operator is paying attention.
Rooms that re-let quickly
A room turned round properly on the day of move-out is a room you can show that week.
One standard as you grow
The same specification in the second house, the tenth, and the first one in another city.
Full visibility, in the Opago platform
- Every house in one scheduleCommunal rounds, room housekeeping and turnovers, visible across the portfolio.
- Condition between residentsEach room recorded at move-out, so deposit conversations are short.
- Issues in one placeAnything found in the house logged, assigned and tracked until closed.
Portfolio overview
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Operational progress
Common questions
Do you work with co-living operators already?
Yes. Since October 2024 we have run operations across all 15 Cohabs coliving houses in Paris, around 300 rooms. Read the Cohabs story. Mason & Fifth is also an Opago client.
Do you clean residents’ rooms as well as communal areas?
Yes. In-room housekeeping on a schedule residents know, with access and timing agreed in advance, alongside the communal rounds.
Do you handle turnovers between residents?
Yes. A deep clean after move-out, a condition record for the room and any maintenance closed before the next resident arrives.
Can you cover houses in both London and Paris?
Yes. We operate in both cities, to one specification and one set of reporting.
Do you manage the community or the lettings?
No. Community, members, pricing and lettings stay with you. We run the operation on the ground.
Can you work to our brand standard?
Yes. Design-led operators have a look they hold to, and we build it into the specification and train the team to it.
How quickly can you take on a house?
We walk the house, write the specification and agree a start date with you. Most houses begin with a deep clean so everything starts from the same baseline.
Do you supply the products and equipment?
Yes, including eco-certified cleaning products and bamboo washroom consumables, which residents do ask about.
Can we start with one house?
Most operators do. One house, one specification, and the next one when it is working.