Flat sharing (colocation) in Luxembourg

Several tenants renting the same home together under a single lease, with the landlord's express agreement. They all sign this written lease with the landlord.

If each person has their own lease (coliving), or in a sublet, it is not a colocation: there is then no joint liability between the tenants.

A written agreement between the co-tenants, to be signed no later than the day the lease is signed; the lease records that date. At a minimum it must cover:

• how rent and shared charges are split, if the lease does not say;
• an inventory of the furniture and who owns it;
• energy and insurance contracts;
• how a co-tenant arrives and leaves;
• the rental deposit;
• how disagreements are settled.

Yes. Co-tenants are jointly liable for the lease obligations towards the landlord: the landlord can claim the full amount due from any one of them. Between themselves, if the agreement says nothing, obligations are shared equally.

Send your notice to the landlord and the other co-tenants at the same time, by registered letter, with 3 months' notice. Before the notice ends you must find a replacement, or prove an active and sufficient search, for example an advert in 2 property media within 15 days of the start of the notice.

At the earliest of these three dates:

• the signing of the amendment admitting the new co-tenant;
• the end of the notice, if an active search is proven;
• at the latest, 3 months after the end of the notice.

Their guarantor's commitment ends on the same date. An intermediate inventory must be drawn up when they leave, and the remaining co-tenants sign an amendment to the agreement.

All of them must sign the termination, send it by registered letter and give 3 months' notice. If at least half of the co-tenants give notice within 3 months of each other, the landlord can also end the lease, by a letter sent within a month of the last notice, with 3 months' notice.