About Restored Living | Co-Buying Platform for Massachusetts

Who is Restored Living and why work with us?

Restored Living was founded in response to a unanimous feeling that housing in Massachusetts is unsatisfactory. It's too expensive, and the properties within people's rental budget are small and poor quality. For the reasons stated on our learn page, we've concluded that collaborative purchasing is the most immediate solution to getting people into homeownership.

After speaking with hundreds of co-purchasing cases across Massachusetts, we have learned what it took for each group to find success, and what obstacles arose. From this, we have developed services that directly address the barriers we've found. Our goal as a company is to provide value in places specific to the co-buying journey that fill in where traditional real estate services may be lacking. As we have done the foundational work to make this journey smoother, we're able to offer these services at a very low cost, knowing that the more we're able to work with groups the more we learn and the more helpful we can be.

We focus on the real estate, investor-minded perspective because that is what we believe is most lacking. People know that community is important, and many feel homeownership is positive, if it is an option. So while we focus on the financial and logistical components, remember these are secondary to the deeper reason this model is appealing.

We consider ourselves just as much a research organization as a service provider. As we continue to learn from the co-buying groups we work with, we will continue to add support in new areas. As early customers, your choosing to work with us directly funds the research and development to further our mission of lowering the barriers to collaborative ownership.

The team.

Aidan Regan

Founder and CEO

Aidan spent five years in real estate brokerage, working with everyone from individual investors to large developers, with stretches in commercial design-build and property management along the way. That work taught him how deals actually get underwritten and financed, and how investors capture upside when a property changes hands.

He started looking for a better way to build housing, first through new development, then through the ownership structure itself. Through researching alternative housing models, it became clear the solution was giving people the same tools investors use, pooled capital, shared risk and structured agreements. Restored Living is that combination: investor-grade financial structure built for residents, not for funds. Aidan leads strategy and property analysis, working directly with each co-buying group from formation through close.

Patricia Lautner

Advisor

Patti has spent 20+ years living in a cohousing community. She is one of the founders of Jamaica Plain CoHousing, one of the largest cohousing projects in the state. Acting as the project manager during the development, she was instrumental in bringing this 30 unit community to life.

With Restored Living, Patti supports groups throughout the interpersonal side of our Group Formation phase, helping groups determine their vision and goals for the property.

James McLoughlin

CFO

James has spent his career on the institutional side of real estate. He started in residential lending, moved into managing institutional assets at ING Clarion across Class A markets, and spent 12 years at TPG Private Equity underwriting and structuring deals most homebuyers never see the inside of.

At Restored Living, he brings that same institutional rigor to a very different scale of buyer: down payment splits, lender coordination, and the underwriting that determines whether a group of five or six can qualify together.

Aleksandra Kudriavtseva

Data Analyst

Aleksandra is originally from Siberia, Russia, and is now based in Boston, MA. She recently graduated from Suffolk University with a degree in Business Analytics and Information Systems.

At Restored Living, she works with market data, collecting and organizing it, keeping internal systems in order, and presenting findings in a way that's easy to understand for our clients.