Solving Housing Affordability | Mark Macduffie - Downsizer

Solving Housing Affordability | Mark Macduffie - Downsizer

Author: Dexter Cousins | Founder, Tier One People August 24, 2023 Duration: 51:28
Mark Macduffie joins Dexter Cousins on Fintech Chatter to discuss Downsizer, a platform that helps homeowners with enough equity in their current house buy their next house with zero cash deposit. "If we can free up 1.7 million households, that has a cooling effect all the way down through the housing market." - Mark McDuffie Downsizer solves the problem of housing affordability by qualifying downsizers using their proprietary technology to prove that they have sufficient equity to buy th...

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