August 2024
Live Near Friends is on a mission to help people live happier, healthier and more connected lives. We believe that home is more than the walls of your house – it’s about the people in close proximity.
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The product allows people to find housing within a short walk of friends and family. This is a common fantasy (⅔ of people really want it according to one of our recent surveys), and our job is to make it a reality. We break down the behavioral, logistical and real estate barriers to making their dream lifestyle possible.
Initially, we are focused on helping people make the dream happen using existing housing stock “in the wild” – whether it’s coordinating the purchase and rental of homes within a short radius, co-buying a duplex or home with an ADU, or leasing multiple units of an apartment building.
But our eventual goal is to change the nature of the built environment itself. We will spur developers to build new housing specifically for groups rather than individuals or atomic family units. We will work with lenders to underwrite groups rather than individuals
We want fences to come down. We want neighborhoods to be reinvigorated. We want places to have meaning. We want cities to look different in the next century than they did in the former one.
We want to shift how people think about place and inextricably tie it to the people nearby.
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CEO Phil Levin was a founding team member of Culdesac (the first car-free real estate developer in the US, $200m+ raised) and started Radish - a groundbreaking co-owned housing cluster with 20 people (and their 5 kids) in Oakland.
The team (engineering, design, brand/content) is filled with start-up vets.
Live Near Friends is backed by top proptech and consumer tech investors. We’ve been covered in Vox, Axios, Business Insider, The Guardian, and Bigger Pockets.