How to co-buy a home with friends, family, or your partner
Benefit from 32,000+ hours of hands-on experience assisting 1000s of co-buyers. This course delivers clear, actionable guidance to kickstart your wealth-building through co-ownership.
About this course
Overview
Buying and owning a home together is complicated. In this course, we break down the process of co-buying a home step-by-step and share our battle-tested strategy for success—before, during, and after your purchase.
You'll learn:
- How co-buying works
- How to minimize the time and cost
- How to select the right RE agent, lender, and other professionals
- How to secure the mortgage of best fit
- How to maximize Return on Investment
- How to protect your home, relationship(s), and finances
Outcomes
Create a co-buying action plan
Develop a strategy for co-ownership
Cut your purchase timeline by 50% vs. US average
Save $25k to $50k in expenses & costs
Length
Format
+ workbook, tools, and templates
Structure
Overview of the co-buying process
Planning & building consensus
Getting a joint mortgage
Navigating the home search, negotiations, & transaction
Structuring co-ownership
Safeguarding against the risks
Developing an exit strategy
Beyond the purchase
Developed by
CoBuy simplifies shared homeownership. Homeownership wasn't designed for friends, family members, and unmarried couples. So we're fixing it.
CoBuyer success stories
Timofei & Maria
Unmarried Couple
Skyler & crew
Friends
Douglas & Lauren
Father & Daughter
Sally & Kate
Mother & Daughter
Robin, Tori, Bryan
Unmarried Couple +Father
Rich & family
Multi-generational Household
Having that step-by-step process was great."
Genya
Unmarried Couple & Parents
CoBuy walks you through the process. I would recommend CoBuy to anyone looking to buy a home together."
Candice & Gabriel
Unmarried Couple
We have peace of mind knowing that we've covered all our legal bases and have contingency plans for all the what-ifs that life can throw your way."
Christina, Edwina, Jason
Multi-generational Household
It was nice to have somebody to help guide us. CoBuy was great!"
Starla & Robert
Unmarried Couple & Kids
CoBuy answered questions that we didn't even know we had.
You can make it happen. CoBuy is 100% the company I'd recommend to do that work with."
Amber & Nate
Friends
I could not imagine going through this without the assistance of CoBuy. CoBuy was instrumental in getting it done."
Peggy, Terry, Ray
Friends
Industry pros weigh in
When they find the home, they are ready."
Don Koonce
RE Agent
Windermere
I love the fact that CoBuy helps buyers to set up a framework for co-ownership so that things go smoothly and the individuals involved are protected."
Trevor Reese
Area Manager
Revolution Mortgage
CoBuy recognizes this and gives you the tangible resources to make homeownership adapt to your needs while covering all of the practical and technical bases."
Edward Ong
Principal • Broker • Attorney
Corpen Real Estate Group
I am excited to continue to work with the CoBuy team."
Raemi Gilkerson
Attorney
Leos & Gilkerson, PLLC
Having a service like CoBuy can make all the difference between a transaction successfully completing or unravelling."
Frank Sandoval
Loan Officer
US Bank
My buyers and I were extremely happy with the guidance and assistance from CoBuy."
Randy Pirtle
RE Agent
Windermere Yarrow Bay
They are incredibly communicative with their clients and business partners. Their entire team keeps your best interest in mind throughout the process."
Jon Bye
Broker • Team Lead
JB & Associates Real Estate
Price for this course
FAQ
This course is designed for anyone interested in buying a home with someone who isn't their spouse:
• a friend
• a relative
• a significant other
...or all of the above. We've worked with buyer groups of all shapes and sizes.
Buying—and owning—a home are fundamentally complex. Engaging in either with someone you aren't married to adds layers of complexity for two reasons.
1. Most systems built to enable and support homeownership are geared towards married couples by default. Marriage creates a legal contract between two people that otherwise does not exist. This is a game changer for financing, owning, insuring, and transferring property.
2. Multi-party ventures of any kind require alignment, communication, cooperation, and performance. The bar for success is high, and there are many potential points of failure.
After this course, you will be better equipped to navigate these challenges.
CoBuy is a real estate technology company created by veteran real estate and finance professionals to simplify shared homeownership. Our goal: to unlock homeownership and wealth creation for all.
We developed and launched the world's first home co-buying platform in 2017. In June 2023, we launched Shared Homeowner OS™ to empower folks to manage all aspects of co-owning a home.
Co-buyers and co-owners need support. Unlike most real estate companies and financial institutions, CoBuy is a neutral third-party.
We do not:
• Get paid on commission
• Originate mortgages
• Lend money
• Take an equity stake in homes
As a partner to our customers—not a counterparty—we are able to be objective and better aligned with our customers' long-term wellbeing.
The earlier, the better.
We often see folks wait until they find the perfect home to prepare. This is stressful, generally not effective, and often leads to rushed decision-making.
Co-buyers who plan and build consensus early experience a smoother home purchase process. Their offer acceptance rate is 3-5x higher, they are less likely to encounter problems during closing, and they feel better about their purchase. Many of the CoBuy groups we have worked with started researching and planning anywhere from two to four years ahead of their home purchase.
Popular demand.
We sunset our co-buying platform at gocobuy.com in August 2023 to focus on our new platform, Shared Homeowner OS™. Many of the folks who have signed up for Shared Homeowner OS™ have indicated they first need help to co-buy. After running live events and webinars for years, it's clear that an on-demand course provides greater flexibility and accessibility.
We've packed years of experience into this course to unlock opportunity and create pathways to homeownership for a broader audience. Knowledge is power.
That's up to you.
Having worked with thousands of co-buyers over seven years, we can confidently say that it's preferable to have everyone involved. Your relationships, hard-earned money, and (future) home are on the line. The return on investment of your time, social capital, financial capital, and energy over your co-ownership journey will be a function of what you put in.
That said, any preparation and research is better than nothing.
Resources
In the lead up to launch, check out the resources below.
CoBuy Budget Calculator
Learn how much you can afford by teaming up with friends, family, or your partner to co-buy a home.
