What is a House share or Flat Share?

What is a House Share or Flatshare?

A house or flat share is the general term used to describe most shared accommodation. The most common examples of flatshare and house share are:

Renting out a room in your own house (live in landlord)
Renting out individual rooms in a property you own but do not live in

Flatsharing and House Sharing has become much more common practice in the larger cities of the UK such as London, Manchester, Leeds and Liverpool, where the cost of rent and general cost of living is very high.

The following statistics list the top 10 cities in the UK for both landlords (rooms offered) and tenants (looking for rooms)

Rooms offered

London
Manchester
Leeds
Bristol
Birmingham
Glasgow
Nottingham
Edinburgh
Cardiff
Southampton

People looking for rooms

London
Manchester
Bristol
Birmingham
Glasgow
Brighton
Leeds
Edinburgh
Liverpool
Cardiff

Flatshare and House Share Stats provided by Roombuddies.com.

Someone who is living in a house or flat share is commonly referred to as a housemate, flatmate, or sometimes roommate. Sometimes a room will be offered as a room share. This may mean that you will be sharing the room with another person, so it is best to check when being offered a room share.