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Better.com has partnered with Coinbase and Fannie Mae to enable consumers to pledge Bitcoin and USDC in lieu of cash for a mortgage down payment.
Better.com is piloting an AI-powered title insurance product in partnership with Fannie Mae that charges $75 for a refinance, compared to the industry average of $1,500.
Due to AI automation, Better.com's cost to manufacture a mortgage is 80% lower than the industry average.
Better.com's AI agent, named Betsy, has already achieved feature parity or better with 80% of the 550,000 licensed loan officers in the United States.
Vishal Garg predicts that by the end of this year, consumers will have personal AI assistants on their phones capable of booking flights, managing calendars, and refinancing mortgages.
Vishal Garg predicts that soon consumers will be able to pledge assets like Intel, Tesla, or Apple stock, as well as S&P 500 and bond funds, as a down payment for a mortgage.
According to Vishal Garg, 41% of consumers who can afford to buy a home do not have enough money for a down payment but own other financial assets.
Better.com's AI models are trained on a dataset derived from $110 billion in funded loans, 6 million customers, millions of recorded phone calls, and billions of processed documents.
Better.com grew from 10 employees in 2016 to 11,000 employees by 2021.
Vishal Garg personally believes a recession is coming in the United States, which he views as the best time for consumers to buy a home.
Vishal Garg stated that 80% of tickets for the recent Coachella festival were purchased using 'buy now, pay later' services, indicating consumer financial stress.
Vishal Garg asserts that the stablecoin ecosystem has created a new universe of buyers for U.S. Treasuries, which has helped compress interest rates.