Landed is on a mission to help essential professionals, starting with educators, build financial security near the communities they serve. The company supports them on the path to homeownership by providing a personalized team that includes a Landed homebuying expert and a partner agent. Landed helps families navigate all of their options for buying a home, including its own shared equity down payment program. The company provides free homebuying education and guidance as well as competitive offer reviews. Landed currently works with K-12, college, and university employees in expensive metro areas like San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Denver, Los Angeles, San Diego, D.C., Boston and Hawaiʻi.
Jonathan grew up in Toronto, where he started his career as a biomedical engineer making vaccines. Looking for something a little faster paced, Jonathan oriented his work to finding intersections of public good and structured financial products. Jonathan worked on social impact bonds and securitizing energy storage revenues before making his way to Landed. Jonathan is a proud graduate of the University of Toronto and Stanford Business School.
The son of a 4th grade teacher and a social worker, Alex Lofton worked on President Obama's field team in '07-'08, managing hundreds of paid staff who organized thousands of volunteers for the then-Senator's successful election campaign. He held leadership positions at numerous social enterprises and technology start-ups, and, he got his start in real estate at developer Forest City. He holds a B.A. from Northwestern and an MBA from Stanford, and he's a proud graduate of WA state public schools.