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The first co-buying platform

Industry first Monetized Real estateFintech2016 to 2023

We built the first online platform to take a group through co-buying a home, start to finish.

Proof$63M+ in closed real estate.

A group summary screen showing what the group wants to buy, where, its purchasing power and its combined debt-to-income ratio

My role

Co-founded the company. Designed the product and business model. Built the professional network behind it.

Results

  • $63M+ in closed real estate. $10M+ in revenue for our partners.
  • 9 weeks saved on average against doing it alone.
  • A network of 200+ vetted professionals, trained and certified by us.

What it is

Our first web app was a collaborative tool that simplified buying a home with friends, family or your partner.

A typical home purchase involves 11 professionals. Most are generalists who haven’t worked together. For a group facing a complex purchase, that’s a problem. So we guided co-buyers through one streamlined sequence and connected them with vetted, CoBuy-certified™ professionals, at no added cost versus winging it.

We retired it in 2023 to put everything into Co-ownerOS™.

Screens

A form collecting one co-buyer’s income, housing budget, available funds and monthly debts
Each co-buyer’s finances, collected once and rolled up for the group.
A form for the home a group wants, with states, cities, neighborhoods and home type
The target home. Where, what kind, how big, and what matters.
A question asking how the group will take title, with tenants in common, joint tenants and LLC as options
The co-ownership agreement, one decision at a time. How will you take title?
A question asking whether co-owners get first right of refusal at appraised value if one triggers a sale
The hard questions, asked before the purchase. Who gets first right of refusal?
A diagram showing co-buyers moving through the CoBuy platform to co-ownership, supported by mortgage, agent, attorney, title and escrow, CPA and insurance professionals
One platform between the group and 6 kinds of professional.
Six steps in a row, plan and align, confirm readiness, secure joint mortgage, search and transact, structure ownership, protect
The path every group followed. 6 steps, in order.

Customers

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More proof
  • CoBuy customers across all 50 states.
  • We earned a share of the buy-side brokerage commission. To do it inside federal rules, we formed our own licensed real estate brokerage.
  • Every professional was hand-picked, interviewed both ways, trained, and held to a service agreement.

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