Co-sleeping: when should we stop?

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Our DS is 8 months and we are cosleeping. He still breastfeeds at night but I think a lot of the times it's just for comfort. During the day he naps in his cot or our bed, either or. At night once we are in the bed he instantly starts crying and wants to be in with us.
My question is - should we try CC and move him to his cot at night? We don't have a spare room for him so he needs to share our room. We plan to move to a bigger flat within the next year.
We don't mind cosleeping with him, it's actually quite nice. I just keep worrying that we will miss the moment when transition from our bed to his cot might be slightly easier...or does it not matter when we make the transition? Will it be equally difficult at all ages/development stages? Should we just wait until we get a new flat and make the move to his own bed once he has his own room?
Thank you.

We have a super king size. Problem is DS insists on being in the middle then proceeds to kick the duvet off all of us as he is too hot.

I will put another duvet on the bed so we can each have one...

Yes. I've never done any form of cc.

I feed her to sleep and now she's progressed to coming off boob before she falls asleep so she can get into bed then we have a cuddle then she pushes me off turns over and goes to sleep. She was sleeping through but arrival of ds has set her back.

Way I see it is it's a hour to settle her or two hours plus guilt to do cc. She'll get it when she's ready.

Yes DH and I sleep separately.

Ds is 12 months and we're right in the middle of breaking out of the Co sleeping at the moment. We've moved it up to about 1 month ago as ds was getting so obsessed with my boobs he was literally latched on all night and it was driving me crazy. I was on the verge of throwing him out r the window!!!!! We've had to go cold turkey and I've moved into the spare room and dh has been doing the sleep training. If I go anywhere near him in the night he just looks for my boobs. We've been a week now and last night he only woke up once at 5.30 and that's cause he has a snotty nose.

Therez no specific age limit for co sleeping. I co sleep with all my 3 daughters. Twin DDs 12 months and 4 year dd.
But DH needs to sleep on cot since.only me and babies fit in our Double bed. :-)

Another family who co-slept until ds2 was 8. He was a wonderfully, snuggly teddy bear, who crept in during the night and snuggled up to me.

We did manage to stop night feeding at 2 years, when I was unwell, by sending me to the spare room and dh and ds co sleeping for a week. Ds2 was furious the first night. You really don't want to know how long he screamed for! He was safe/with his Dad, however, and the next night he only cried for 20 mins. The third night it was a wimper and after that we were fine. I just had to tell him that mummy's milk wasn't there at night, so go to sleep and have some in the morning!

my friend's two coslept until reception - as they were due to start school they had a "now you're at big school" convo

my bio dad's stepson coslept til 14 then room shared til 16 and got kicked out when my dad moved in :/

you're good for a while yet!

DD co-slept until she turned three - we'd only started when we night-weaned at 8m. I'd previously fed to sleep and popped her in the cot, suddenly she didn't want milk, just a cuddle! Now (3.1) she falls asleep by herself in her own bed and I get a measly 10-minute snuggle before the morning alarm. I miss my night-time cuddles, and I too wish we had invested in an enormous bed.