Landed Provided an Average of $70K–$80K in Down Payment Assistance
Alex Lofton · HIBT Lab! Landed: Alex Lofton · May 11, 2023 · at 35:59
Alex Lofton is the co-founder of Landed, a shared-equity homeownership platform helping essential workers afford home down payments.
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“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 average now we're somewhere between 70 and 80,000 dollars per home buyer.”
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