"The American Dream Is DEAD" - Is Co-Ownership The Future Of Housing In America?
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🗓️ 30 January 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Buying a home with friends instead of a spouse? Brad Lea, Tom, and Brandon debate the rise of co-buying as housing costs soar. Is it smart leverage or a sign of economic decline? A raw conversation on real estate, risk, stability, and the modern American Dream.
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| 0:00.0 | This is going to be end of these stories we're hearing about union. |
| 0:03.9 | Let's talk about co-buying to see if you guys think this is a good idea or not. |
| 0:06.8 | Cobain is rewriting homeownership and romance is no longer required. |
| 0:12.3 | What is this co-buying stuff? |
| 0:14.1 | Is it like co-habitating? |
| 0:16.3 | Is that what that is? |
| 0:17.5 | What is this co-buying stuff? |
| 0:20.0 | Co-buying homes platonically. |
| 0:22.5 | That's a trend emerging among homeowners today. |
| 0:25.3 | Kate Wood, a lending expert, told Fox Digital that co-buying is attractive because housing is |
| 0:32.5 | incredibly expensive in U.S. |
| 0:34.4 | Wood said people are co-buying homes with friends and family members. |
| 0:37.8 | What we're seeing rising now is co-bying between friends or people who are family members, |
| 0:42.1 | but basically buying home with someone that you're in a non-romantic relationship with. |
| 0:46.9 | According to the National Association of Realtors, 20-25 profile, |
| 0:51.6 | first-time home buyers consisted of 25% single women, 10% single men, interesting. |
| 0:57.5 | Yeah, right. |
| 0:58.1 | While the share of married couples remain flat at 50% from data collected from July 24 to June of 2025, |
| 1:07.3 | in comparison among all homebuyers, 61% are married couples, |
| 1:12.2 | 21% are single women, |
| 1:14.6 | 9% are single men. |
| 1:16.7 | NAR also shared that the median age |
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