{"id":43,"date":"2026-10-30T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/yourbrokerrobert-com\/2026\/10\/30\/60-prefer-co-buying-to-waiting-alone\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T14:00:00","slug":"60-prefer-co-buying-to-waiting-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yourbrokerrobert.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/30\/60-prefer-co-buying-to-waiting-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"60% Prefer Co-Buying to Waiting Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/robert-tabatabai\/split-deed-renting-remotion-videos-1e69\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>A recent national survey found 60% of Americans would rather co-buy half a home now than keep renting until solo ownership feels possible.<br \/>\nCost drove interest most: 94% named at least one affordability reason, led by sharing monthly mortgage payments, splitting down payments, or reaching better homes.<br \/>\nFamily was the most common path, with 68% open to buying with relatives, while younger and lower-income Americans showed greater openness to friends.<br \/>\nNearly all prospective co-buyers wanted written agreements covering exit and payment terms, and brokers can add value as non-traditional down payment sources reached 29%.<br \/>\nThe shift looked deeper than financing: 61% viewed co-buying with friends or family as serious as marriage, and half saw it helping avoid later-life solitude.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent national survey found 60% of Americans would rather co-buy half a home now than keep renting until solo ownership feels possible. Cost drove interest most: 94% named at least one affordability reason, led by sharing monthly mortgage payments, splitting down payments, or reaching better homes. Family was the most common path, with 68% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":592,"featured_media":44,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yourbrokerrobert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yourbrokerrobert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yourbrokerrobert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yourbrokerrobert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/592"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yourbrokerrobert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.yourbrokerrobert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yourbrokerrobert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yourbrokerrobert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yourbrokerrobert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yourbrokerrobert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}