The nation's largest Black mortgage company, LEGACY Home Loans is on a mission to help the Black community build sustainable wealth through homeownership. Led by President & CEO Ben Slayton, a 55-year mortgage industry veteran who was also the first Black REALTOR® in America. LEGACY's goal is to fund $1 Billion to new Black homebuyers by year end 2023.
There were no Black members of what was known as the National Association of Real Estate Boards in the 1960s. Ben Slayton, a Southern California Black man in his early 20s wanting to break into the in