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Nobody taught us how to buy a home. Until now.

We're closing the homeownership education gap: six years of original research, free education that reaches buyers before they need it, and housing professionals at the policy table.

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You're in the right place.

future homeowners, this way I'm buying my first home

Free courses, calculators, and games, plus a step-by-step plan built around your situation. Everything is free, and it stays that way.

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I work in housing

Your buyers are learning about homeownership without you. Get the education platform that teaches them and sends you the lead.

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The gap is real. We measure it every year.

82%

got little or no financial education in school

1 in 8

trust a housing professional not to take advantage of them

40

the average age of a first-time buyer, the oldest on record

2026 NextGen Homebuyer Report, 9,000+ buyers surveyed. Financial education stat: 2025 FirstHome IQ Financial Literacy Report.

How we close the gap.

The research tells us what buyers need. The education delivers it. The advocacy takes on the structural barriers in their way.

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Research

The NextGen Homebuyer Report: six years of original research with National MI, cited by HousingWire and the Wall Street Journal.

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Education

Free tools buyers actually use at learn.firsthomeiq.com, and professional education at teach.firsthomeiq.com.

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Advocacy

We bring housing professionals to Capitol Hill so first-time buyers have someone speaking for them there.

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The industry's nonprofit

Ambassadors fund 80% of everything FirstHome IQ does: mortgage and real estate professionals leading with education in 144+ cities.

When buyers understand their options, they stop waiting. And they remember who taught them.

Backed by the Mortgage Bankers Association · National MI · Movement · Churchill · NFM Lending

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Be the one who finally explains it

The buyers who said "someday" are still out there.

Become the guide they choose first. Join 160+ Ambassadors growing the market of first-time buyers in their own backyards.

Buying your first home? Everything you need is free at learn.firsthomeiq.com →