A look inside Toy Factory Munich: LifeX's 14-apartment coliving home with shared spaces and all-inclusive living in a building with real history.
Moving into a new city is one of the most disorienting experiences a professional can have. You land somewhere unfamiliar, you need an address, a community, and a place that actually feels like home, and most of the options on the market give you exactly none of those things. We built something different in Munich, and it starts with a building that has a story.
The Toy Factory is a heritage property in Munich with 14 apartments, each with four private rooms. The name is not a marketing invention. The building's landlord inherited it from his grandfather, who ran a genuine toy factory on the site, producing board games including Monopoly under license from Parker Brothers. That history is woven into the walls, and it shapes the way the whole community feels.
What makes it work is not just the design or the location. It is the combination of a building with real character, a landlord who lives on-site, and a community of members who chose to live differently.
The Toy Factory is a place with genuine tradition. The landlord describes his vision clearly: a place where people have well-being, where the space is for the people. That intention is visible in every part of the property.
The front house includes a café. The building has a garage with a dedicated elevator running from the ground floor, designed to make bike access easy. The landlord himself lives in the building, and has said directly that he is very happy with the community our members have brought to the property. When the person who owns the building chooses to live alongside the people in it, it tells you something real about the atmosphere.
Every member at the Toy Factory has a private bedroom. The shared elements are the kitchen and the common living areas. In practice, this feels much closer to living with carefully matched flatmates than to any kind of hostel arrangement.
Before any member joins, we run a video call to understand their lifestyle, their expectations, and how they approach shared living. This protects the atmosphere that makes the Toy Factory worth living in, and it means new members arrive knowing what to expect. Privacy concerns tend to dissolve quickly once people are actually living there. The community upside, the connections made over dinner, the spontaneous conversations in the kitchen, consistently outweighs the adjustment of sharing common space.
Living at the Toy Factory means your rent covers utilities, high-speed internet, regular professional cleaning of the common areas, and maintenance. You do not manage separate bills. You do not chase a landlord about a broken appliance. You open the LifeX app, and things get handled. Common areas are cleaned biweekly by professional housekeepers, and storage space in shared areas is clearly allocated to individual members so there is no ambiguity about what belongs to whom.
Members also have access to bikes, cargo bikes, and electric cars. The garage elevator makes daily bike use genuinely convenient, and the photovoltaic panels on the roof charge the electric vehicles, so sustainable transport is built into the infrastructure of the building itself. If you are still deciding which part of the city to base yourself in, our guide to the best neighbourhoods in Munich for expats and young professionals covers the key areas in depth.
The Toy Factory suits professionals and internationally mobile people who are in a transitional or exploratory phase. It works well for individuals and couples without children who want a home that is ready from day one, without the friction of setting up utilities, sourcing furniture, or navigating a rental market that can be genuinely difficult for newcomers. If you are arriving without an established German credit history, our guide to renting in Munich without a German credit history explains exactly what to expect.
It is less suited to people who need complete solitude, or who are looking for a permanent long-term home. Coliving at its best is for people who want to be part of something while they build their life in a new city.
Moving to Germany means navigating Anmeldung, the official address registration required by German law. You need a confirmed address before you can register, and you need to register before you can open a bank account, access public services, or settle into life properly. Our complete guide to Anmeldung for expats in Berlin, Hamburg and Munich walks through the full process step by step.
Having a confirmed home at the Toy Factory means you have the address documentation you need to complete your Anmeldung without delay. The administrative layer of arriving in Germany is real. We take as much of it off your plate as we can.
Munich is one of Europe's most liveable cities, and also one of its most competitive rental markets. Finding a home that is furnished, all-inclusive, and ready to move into, in a building with real community, is not straightforward through traditional rental channels. One member described the move-in process simply: "Pretty accurate, nothing was different from what I expected from the online listing." Another put it this way: "Very good experience with this apartment and whole process of moving in." That consistency is not accidental. It is what we build every home around.
The Toy Factory gives you a shortcut to the part that matters: actually living in Munich, rather than spending your first weeks managing logistics. Members arrive, settle in quickly, and start building their life in the city from a position of stability rather than stress.
Ready to live differently in Munich? Browse available rooms at the Toy Factory and see what's waiting for you.