Reading Time: 2 minutesSpain: San Francisco-based coliving firm Starcity has formed a JV with Barcelona Homes to “build housing for the urban renter in Spain”.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteUK: BTR and student housing developer Watkins Jones says most of its UK construction sites are now operating at 75 per cent of normal capacity, following the restarting of work after the coronavirus lockdown.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteUS: Thor Equities has signed up workspace manager Industrious as a partner to operate its 36,000-square-foot coworking space in Midtown Manhattan.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteNetherlands: Dutch real estate firm Orange Capital has acquired 173 student and residential apartments from a KKR and Round Hill Capital partnership.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteUK: Legal & General’s retirement housing company Guild Living has submitted a planning application for a 193-unit site in Walton-on-Thames.

Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: German coliving firm Quarters is being sued over the $8 million lease on a property in Brooklyn by the building’s owner.

Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: International Hospitality Media (IHM), the publisher of SAN, has announced the launch of a webinar series in the run up to the URBAN LIVING FESTIVAL 2020: stay-live-work

Reading Time: 2 minutesUK/US: Coliving developer and operator The Collective says short-term stays have been severely impacted by the lockdown but its long-stay business is proving resilient.

Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: Starcity, a San Francisco-based coliving company, has raised $30 million in a Series B funding round.

Reading Time: 8 minutesThe COVID-19 humanitarian challenge will have lasting effects on how people stay, live and work in the future.