Alex Lofton
Co-Founder, Landed. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Lofton co-founded Landed, a real estate technology platform offering shared-equity down payment assistance to help educators and public-sector workers buy homes. Prior to Landed, he worked in field operations for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign and served as a regional director for Organizing for America.
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Everything Alex Lofton said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Lofton: Blackstone converted owner-occupied housing to rentals post-2008
“You know, you had Blackstone and others after to the 2008 financial crisis. Buy up a bunch of properties. That used to be for ownership and now are only rental.”
Shared Equity Homebuying Existed Since the 1970s but Lacked Scale
“There have been institutions since the seventies that have been leveraging shared appreciation or shared equity to help people into homes. The reality is, though, it's always been specific organizations, maybe one city at a time that was doing this. No one had…”
Landed Took 2.5% Home Appreciation Per 1% Down Payment Provided
“Our initial model was for every kind of one percent down payment support you get. You would share in 2.5% of appreciation. So if you get 10% down payment support, you're going to share in 25%.”
Landed Helped California Design the Dream for All Housing Program
“State of California just announced California Dream for All, the biggest shared appreciation program ever. And that was something that we helped them design and they saw our work and said, hey, how, what if the state tried to scale something like this?”
Future Homebuyers Will Rely on Co-Investors Before Becoming Full Owners
“This is a, one of those tools that could help chip away that in the future, somebody would think, Actually, the way to buy a home is to have a co-investor in it until I can be a full owner versus needing to be an owner right off the bat.”
Landed Partnered With School Districts for Down Payment Assistance Distribution
“That this product exists, and that's ended up what, how, what we did. We ended up partnering with school districts and hospitals and governments to kind of get the word out about our products so that their staff wouldn't just feel like, hey, what's this sketch…”
Landed Operates on Dual PropCo and OpCo Venture Fundraising Streams
“We had to raise money that was available to the individual buyer to invest in their home to help them with a down payment. That was. Kind of one stream. The other stream was we need money to run our company. And that was the operating business, the opco, and t…”
Landed Actively Tries to Transition Homebuyers Out of Equity Partnerships
“We really actively try to manage people out of the partnership because we think of it as a stair step into ownership.”
Landed's Venture Returns Do Not Come From Home Equity Appreciation
“The investment in the down payment program that eventually goes to homebuyers, that doesn't come back to Landed Inc. That's not what pays my salary or is what our venture capitalists are seeing their return from. We are just facilitating that relationship and …”
Landed Is Pivoting to White-Label B2B Housing Benefits
“We've started to shift more as a B to B where we are working with organizations, you know, hospital systems universities even come some companies that have capital invest themselves and want to offer homeownership as a benefit or housing as a benefit but don't…”
Landed Provided an Average of $70K–$80K in Down Payment Assistance
“Because in the Bay Area, you're well over a 100,000 dollars and you're like a 110,000 dollars or so, but it's averaged out. And the next biggest market for us was Denver, Colorado and very different. Market. Though increasingly catching up. So I think on avera…”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Alex's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
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