01 · Resident
“A rare environment where you can slow down, connect, and leave clearer, more focused, and recharged than when you arrived. When I'm back in Spain, this is where I'll come home to.”
Travis Weeks
Resident · 90-day stay
By application · WorldwideBig-ticket · Worldwide · By application
Big-ticket coliving needs more than a beautiful property.
I work with people who own serious property and don’t want to turn it into another beige coliving with a yoga deck and a Canva logo. Coliving, retreats, sober houses, lifestyle hospitality. Worldwide. Mostly by referral.
You can replicate the rooms. You can replicate the pool. You can replicate the Instagram aesthetic. You cannot replicate the lived experience of actually running the thing for real.
Nine minutes. Twenty-eight questions. You leave with a score out of 100 and a written read on the three biggest leaks. No credit card. No call required.
Founder
Steve Haynes
Based
Sierra Calderona, Valencia
For owners of dormant property
A dormant building is the worst-performing asset in your portfolio. We fix that.
The estate you bought a decade ago and never quite figured out. The fourteen-bedroom finca your father left you. The hotel you closed in 2020 and have not reopened.
We give owners of dormant property an operating playbook. The same one we use at Savi. Which runs at 98% occupancy without paid ads.
Cash flow
Stabilised hospitality-grade income.
Without the hotel overhead. Without the discounting cycle. Long-stay residents who pay monthly, not nightly.
Asset story
A building that operates is a different conversation.
With a lender. With a future buyer. With a tax authority. Empty buildings depreciate quietly. Operating ones earn for themselves.
Housing impact
10 to 14 long-stay residents per property.
In regions running out of homes. The building stops being a liability for the local council and starts being part of the answer.
Most of these buildings sit in the worst kind of limbo. Beautiful, expensive, and earning nothing. The fix is not another property manager. It is an operating playbook designed for the specific building you have.
Recognised by · Operating
Built by the operator. Recognised by people who’ve seen it work.
La Bocana · Formentera · Opened
Benali · Worked on the team
Savi Coliving · Founded
La Casa del Viento · Founded
Worldpackers
SDG · Winner
2025
Sustainable Development Goals
- 20 years operator-side
- Hotels · Restaurants · Retreats · Coliving
- Still in the chair, not behind a desk.
Proof from Savi
A villa in the mountains. A handful of people. Real work.
Savi Coliving was built in the Sierra Calderona. 25 minutes from Valencia. As a premium sober coliving space for remote workers, founders, and creatives. Designed around focus, nature, community, deep work, and a non-party house culture.
Savi is proof that people do not just buy accommodation. They buy the feeling of being in the right place, with the right people, at the right time in their life.
46★
Verified 5-star
Google reviews
98%
Occupancy
every month since opening
41days
Average resident
stay length
0
Paid ads, platform
listings, or discounting
In their words
Three quotes pulled verbatim from real residents’ reviews of Savi Coliving.
02 · Resident
“I've come across many co-working and co-living spaces through my work. Savi, with its sober concept, is truly something very special. A place that leaves a lasting impression.”
Saskia Rehhahn
Hospitality professional
03 · Resident
“I genuinely couldn't have found a better co-living spot in Valencia. The location is incredible. The community is warm. The standard of hosting is on another level.”
Devinn
Resident · Google Local Guide
Who I work with
Serious owners, founders, and investors with real properties and real commercial potential.
Europe · Mediterranean · International
01
Villa Owners
You have a beautiful property and want to turn it into something more profitable, distinctive, and alive than short-term rentals.
02
Retreat Founders
You want a stronger concept, better positioning, clearer pricing, and a more sustainable model than random one-off retreats.
03
Coliving Operators
You already run or are launching a coliving space and need help with culture, guest screening, pricing, standards, community, and operations.
04
Hospitality Investors
You are exploring coliving, retreats, sober living, founder houses, or community-led hospitality and need someone who understands the market from the inside.
05
Empty Building Owners
You hold a dormant villa, finca, monastery, or rural asset that is costing money. You want a real plan to turn it into a regenerative, revenue-generating community.
06
Luxury Property Owners
You have the property, but not the concept, positioning, or operating model to make it commercially strong.
This is not for cheap shared housing. This is for high-value properties with serious commercial potential.
Services
Advisory for premium coliving, retreat, and lifestyle hospitality projects. worldwide.
Three engagements, each shaped around the property in front of Steve. Not for budget housing, not for cheap rentals, not for spare-room operators. Selected projects only.Currently 3 of 8 advisory spots open for 2026. Six-week waitlist.
Remote · Strategic
Property Potential Audit
From €4,500
A remote strategic review of your property, concept, market, positioning, pricing, guest profile, and revenue potential.
Best for
Villa owners, retreat founders, and early-stage operators who need clarity before investing more time and money.
Includes
- Property review
- Concept direction
- Ideal guest profile
- Positioning feedback
- Pricing recommendations
- Revenue opportunities
- Red flags
- 90-day action plan
2–3 Days · On Property
On-Site Transformation Audit
From €9,500
Steve visits your property for 2 to 3 days and reviews the full guest journey, rooms, layout, atmosphere, operations, pricing, content opportunities, community potential, and commercial strategy.
Best for
Owners and investors with a serious property who want expert eyes on what it could become.
Includes
- On-site property assessment
- Guest experience review
- Room and space strategy
- Community model recommendations
- Operational feedback
- Positioning and pricing review
- Content and marketing opportunities
- Full transformation report
Concept → Launch
Launch Partner Package
From €18,000
For founders and investors creating or repositioning a coliving, retreat centre, sober living concept, founder house, or lifestyle hospitality brand.
Best for
Serious projects that need strategic support from concept to launch.
Includes
- Concept development
- Brand positioning
- Guest profile
- Pricing strategy
- House culture
- Resident screening
- Operational systems
- Sales messaging
- Launch plan
- Advisory support
Bridge offer · For Scorecard 70+ takers
Diagnostic Call. €250 · 30 minutes.
For owners who’ve taken the Scorecard and want a real read on their property before committing to a full Audit. Steve reviews your Scorecard answers in advance, joins for 30 minutes on WhatsApp or Zoom, and sends a one-page written diagnosis within 48 hours. No upsell, no slides.
Book a Diagnostic Call
Payment requested after the call is confirmed. Bank transfer, PayPal, or Stripe link, your choice.
Selected projects only. Steve works with a limited number of clients where the property, people, and commercial opportunity are genuinely strong.
The Savi Method
The parts most hospitality projects treat separately.
Savi proved that people do not just buy a room. They buy the feeling of being in the right place, with the right people, at the right time in their life.
The Savi Method brings property, positioning, people, pricing, standards, story, community, and operational reality into one operating system.
01Concept Development
02Property Positioning
03Guest Psychology
04Premium Pricing
05Resident Screening
06House Culture
07Community Rituals
08Operations
09Sales Messaging
10Founder-Led Storytelling
11Sober Hospitality
12Content Strategy
“Savi is proof that people do not just want accommodation. They want a place that makes sense for who they are becoming.”
You cannot replicate me
You can replicate the house. You cannot replicate the host.
The real product
The room you don’t see on the floor plan.
The most valuable part of a coliving business is the part nobody puts on the floor plan.
- Who you say no to.
- The tone of the first WhatsApp.
- Knowing a problem is brewing two days before it actually happens.
- Reading the dinner table without anyone telling you something is off.
- Sensing when the energy of the house has shifted.
- The difference between community and a Slack channel.
- The confidence to refund someone before they ruin the month for everyone else.
- Knowing what the property is actually trying to be.
That isn’t decoration.
That’s the business.
Most owners think they’re building a property. They’re building a host. I help them build the host on purpose. Not by accident at month nine.
About Steve
Hospitality strategy, community design, and the operational reality of running a house full of humans.
Founded
Savi Coliving
Awarded
SDG · 2025
Engagements
ES · UK · FR
Twenty years in hospitality. Kitchens, restaurant openings, hotel launches, retreat centres, and now coliving. Founder of Savi Coliving. Advisor by referral.
Hi, I’m Steve. I built Savi Coliving. A sober mountain coliving twenty-five minutes outside Valencia, in the hills of Náquera. Pool, gym, yoga studio, badminton court, coworking with screens, mountain trails out the door, sober house culture. The works.
Before that I was a chef. Then I ran kitchens. Then I opened restaurants. La Bocana in Formentera, among others. Then I worked on rural hospitality projects in Spain, including Casas de Benali. A rural eco hotel I was on the operating team for, since pivoted to a corporate offsite retreat. Then I founded my own. La Casa del Viento. Won the Worldpackers Sustainable Development Goals award in 2025. Passed it on shortly after to focus fully on Savi, which became an overnight success. Twenty years of being on the operator side of hospitality, mostly making mistakes I now help other people not make.
The advisory exists because enough people kept sending me the same deck. A beautiful villa. A vague concept. The word “community” on every slide. No operating model. No idea who it’s actually for. And they ask me if it’s ready to launch.
I’m not interested in helping people build another beige retreat centre with a yoga mat, a Canva logo and no point.
I help people build places with standards. Identity. Commercial strength. And a reason to exist.
You can copy the surface.
You cannot copy the judgement.
Most consultants hand you a deck. I hand you the layer the deck cannot describe. And the property starts to earn for it.
TCA Approved · For operators
If you already run a coliving well . Read this.
Most coliving franchises ruin the thing they claim to scale. The wrong operators get the brand. The standards slide. Two years in, the name means nothing.
Building TCA Approved. A small, peer-reviewed credibility mark for operators who already run premium houses well. Paired with a supplier co-op and a peer-only Slack.
No revenue royalty. No brand replacement. No tier table. Annual licence. Selective. Invitation-only.
Tell me when applications open
Early access · No commitment · Selective by design
Contact
Work with The Coliving Advisor.
For consulting, property audits, launch advisory, and selected partnerships. Contact Steve directly.
Structured intake
Property Potential Scorecard. 2 min.