Who is HomeMates and why work with us?

HomeMates started from a feeling almost everyone in Greater Boston shares: housing here costs too much, and what fits a renter's budget is small and in poor condition. Buying together is the most immediate route to ownership we've found for the people we serve.

After talking with hundreds of co-purchasing groups across Massachusetts, we built our services around the places those groups got stuck, and because that groundwork is done, we can offer them at a low cost. HomeMates grew out of the research Restored Living set out to do.

The team.

Aidan Regan, Founder and CEO of HomeMates

Founder and CEO

Aidan Regan

  • Five years in real estate brokerage, working with individual investors and large developers
  • Background in commercial design-build and property management
  • Leads strategy and property analysis, working with each group from formation through closing
Patti Lautner, Advisor at HomeMates

Advisor

Patti Lautner

  • Co-founded Jamaica Plain Cohousing, a 30-unit multigenerational community in Boston, and managed the project through development
  • More than 20 years living in community
  • Leads the three Group Formation sessions with every group