Overview
Share a Mortgage is a social social networking site that makes it easy for first time buyers to find someone to buy with. Accepting that buying a home is almost impossible without help, Share a Mortgage helps want to be buyers search for like minded people to buy their first home together.
Co-founded by Claudine and Andrew Boast in 2014, Share a Mortgage is the first website they built and it includes:
- Member search area
- Conveyancing Process tips and guides
- Buddying up service
- Share Ownership Protection
Andrew and Claudine were able to secure an angel investor Nick Bragg who continues to support the business as it grows.
Using Claudine's years of experience as a qualified solicitor she has created a bespoke deed of trust called, Shared Ownership Protection, that allows co-owners of property agree how they will live together. It includes both the finances and also the living arrangements.
England and Wales are screaming out for more affordable housing solutions and Share a Mortgage is helping those who couldn't do it on their own, but can do it together.
The logo for Share a Mortgage encapsulates the sharing message and a first draft was drawn by Claudine, with help from her dad, on a piece of paper in a brain storming exercise before our flight back to the UK. The finished version has now been seen by in excess of 6 million visitors to the website.
