Homeward

It all started with an agent. Our CEO and Founder, Tim Heyl, became a real estate agent in 2009 and quickly rose to be the city's number-one real estate agent by The Austin Business Journal at just 24. His company, The Heyl Group, achieved Inc. 5000 recognition five times and was ranked as a top 25 agent team by The Wall Street Journal Top 1,000. Through this experience, Tim saw a fundamental problem: the real estate process felt broken. He consistently encountered sellers who had to endure months of waiting to find a buyer, often leaving them unable to even make an offer on a new home until their current one sold. We watched our clients navigate the immense stress of months filled with showings, the hassle of moving twice, or even worse, the heartbreak of missing out on their dream home. This wasn't the exciting, joyful experience that moving should be; instead, it was filled with anxiety and rushed decisions that sometimes led to regret.

Unlike many investors and technology companies aiming to displace agents, we at Homeward believe that good agents are an integral part of the solution. This conviction inspired Tim to build Homeward in 2018, with the core goal of empowering agents with a better way to serve their clients. We created a solution designed to remove the uncertainty and stress from buying and selling homes. Our innovative approach, which includes The Homeward Offer, Homeward Mortgage, and Homeward Title, provides a seamless, bundled experience. We enable homebuyers to make more competitive cash bids and even buy their new home before they sell their old one. This model quickly gained traction, and following incredible adoption and positive feedback from buyers, sellers, and agents, prominent firms like Blackstone, Credit Suisse, and Norwest invested hundreds of millions to help us expand our services across the US. We're a fully remote company, headquartered in Austin, TX, with team members all across the United States, dedicated to making homeownership more accessible and less stressful.