Bedrooms for Sale and Buddy Mortgages Reveal Europe’s Housing CrunchEurope’s Housing Crunch: New Ways to Buy, Share, and InvestMADRID/LONDON, Feb 27(Reuters) - A Spanish startup is selling bedrooms in flats shared with strangers, a British developer offers mortgages for friends willing to buy together, while stakes in rental properties help some tenants cover their housing costs. Such unconventional arrangements highlight the lengths some young Europeans are ready to go to cope with a housing crisis that has hit them the hardest. Banks in Britain, France, Germany and Italy are also reviving low or zero-deposit mortgages that vanished after the 2008 financial crisis. "All these housing solutions serve to show how people are getting poorer." (Reporting by Corina Pons in Madrid and Iain Withers in London; editing by Charlie Devereux and Tomasz Janowski)

Source: The Guardian February 27, 2026 18:07 UTC