Harrington Housing
Coliving operator based in Canada, operating across North America.
About Harrington Housing
Harrington Housing is a Canadian coliving operator that rents furnished private rooms in shared apartments to students, interns and young professionals. The company says it was started to make upscale high rise apartments more affordable for those groups, by letting residents rent a single furnished bedroom in a well located building instead of taking on a whole unit. As of November 2026 its website lists homes in four Canadian cities: Halifax, Ottawa, Montreal and Toronto. Visitors can also ask the company to launch in other cities. Most residents are domestic and international students and early career professionals who want to live close to universities, downtown offices and transit without signing a traditional lease and furnishing a home from scratch. The offer is a furnished bedroom with shared kitchens and living spaces, sold on flexible lease terms that suit both shorter stays, such as an internship or a single semester, and longer stays across an academic year or more. Residents describe utilities, internet and regular cleaning of shared areas as included in one monthly payment, and the company handles maintenance and day to day management. The company does not publish a current bed count on its website. Third party profiles have cited figures of more than 2,500 and more than 3,125 beds, and one directory gives 2016 as the founding year, so treat the scale and founding date shown here as approximate. In the Canadian market, Harrington Housing competes with purpose built student accommodation, traditional room rentals and other furnished rental platforms. Its pitch rests on central buildings, furnished rooms and simple all inclusive billing. Status: active as of November 2026 in Halifax, Ottawa, Montreal and Toronto. Check harringtonhousing.com for current availability and pricing in each city.
How the master lease model works
Under a master lease, the operator signs a long lease with a landlord, then sublets rooms as coliving. It is capital-light and fast to scale because the operator does not buy the building, but it carries the rent whether rooms are full or not, so occupancy discipline and a healthy spread between the head rent and the room revenue are everything.
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