Good day, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Open Door 4th quarter 2022 earnings conference call. At this time, I'll participate in the Sonny Mode. After this biggest presentation, there will be a questioning and a session. To ask a question during this session, you will need to press Star 11 on your telephone. You will then hear an automated message advising your hand is raised. To withdraw your question, please press Star 11 again. Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded.
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I would now like to hand the conference over to you a speaker today, Elise Wong, vice president of Investor Relations. Please go ahead. Thank you and good afternoon. Details of our results and additional management commentary are available in our earnings release and shareholder letter, which can be found on the Investor Relations section of our website at investor.opendoor.com. Please note that this call will be simultaneously webcast on the Investor Relations section of the company's corporate website.
Before we start, I would like to remind you that the following discussion contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws. All of statements other than statements of historical facts, are statements that could be deemed forward-looking, including but not limited to statements regarding open door financial condition, anticipated financial performance, business strategy and plans, market opportunity and expansion and management objectives for future operations. These statements are neither promises nor guarantees and undue reliance should not be placed on them. Such forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed here.
Additional information that could cause actual results to differ from forward-looking statements can be found in the risk factor section of open doors most recent annual report on form 10K for the year end of December 31, 2022, as updated by our periodic reports filed after that 10K. Any forward-looking statements made in this conference call, including responses to your questions, are based on management's reasonable current expectations and assumptions as of today, and open door assumes no obligation to update or revise them, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law. The following discussion contains references to certain non-gap financial measures. The company believes these non-gap financial measures are useful to investors as supplemental operational measurements to evaluate the company's financial performance. For a reconciliation of each of these non-gap financial measures to the most directly comparable gap metric, please see our website at investor.opendoor.com.
I will now turn the call over to Kerry Wheeler, Chief Executive Officer of Open Door. Good afternoon. Also in the call of me today's Christie Schwartz, our Interim Chief Financial Officer, and Dodd Frazier, President of Capital Markets in our Enterprise Business.
I'm looking forward to speaking with you today, not only because it's my first earnings call, but because of our clarity as the path ahead, which I believe will make open doors stronger than before. While navigating a major housing cycle has not been easy, we've never lost sight of our vision. We are building a managed marketplace for residents of real-estate that will enable consumers to buy, sell, and move at the capital button.
Challenging times like these have the benefit of increasing urgency, demanding focus, and putting teamwork front and center. That's energizing, and part of why I decided to take the CEO role. It's clear to me what our value proposition is for customers and where we need to focus at this moment.
I also believe deeply in what we're building towards. Our value proposition is incredibly strong. About 99% of home sellers still go through the traditional real estate process, a process that remains offline and certain and totally broken. Customers come to us because they praise the certainty and convenience of our cash offer that they cannot get anywhere else. Even in this moment of high spread, we are able to convert over 10% of real sellers and earn an NPS of nearly 80. We stand alone in what we're able to offer consumers today. Given our current coverage of almost 30% of all real estate transactions in the US today between our buy-box and the markets we're in, we have a significant runway for future growth.
As for right now, we are highly focused on stabilizing our core business and ultimately returning to positive recast flow. And we're making solid progress.
目前,我们高度专注于稳定我们的核心业务,并最终实现积极的资金流回报。我们正在稳步取得进展。
As of your end, we sold or were in contract to sell two-thirds of the loss making homes acquired before the housing market reset, also known as our Q2 cohort, and we expect to be behind us shortly.
The homes we've acquired since the reset are outperforming our expectations and are on track to deliver contribution margins in line with our 46% annual margin targets once they're fully sold.
We expect to keep relatively high spreads in the near term, given continued uncertainty into how the housing market will perform. That said, we have reduced our spreads from last year's record level based on early indicators of stabilization in the housing market.
And we'll continue to do so as we see more consistent positive macro signs. Ultimately, we would expect lower spreads to translate into higher acquisition volumes.
随着更多稳定的宏观迹象的出现,我们会继续这样做。最终,我们预期更低的利差将转化为更高的收购量。
In the meantime, we're going to manage our cost structure in light of how expected volumes are pacing this year and next, with the goal of returning the business to adjusted income profitability in 2024, assuming some normalization in the housing market.
In addition to stabilizing our first-party business, we are aligning on three key areas in 2023 to further our progress towards building the managed marketplace for residents on real estate.
First, it's to enable more sellers to choose open door. No matter the macro backdrop, sellers' values of certainty and some solicities that an open door offer provides.
This year, we're focused on diversifying our demand funnel so that more home sellers start the journey with open door. The recent launch of our Zilla partnership is one key example set to substantially increase our reach in a scalable and efficient way. We're also expanding our list for certainty product, which gives sellers the option of listening on the MLS, while retaining a certain even open door offer that they can take at any time.
Second, this will realize greater operational efficiencies throughout the business by shifting our focus from building for scale and velocity to strengthening our foundational pricing, operations, and customer platforms.
This includes continued improvement in pricing capabilities to increase offer competitiveness and inventory turns. We will also invest in refactoring our test platform and infrastructure to enhance productivity and reduce fixed expenses.
We are going after at least a hundred basis points of margin improvement from all these initiatives by year end. The full impact of which we expect to be alive in 2024. I'll be disappointed if we don't do better than that.
And finally, we're building exclusives. Our third-party product offering that will be critical to creating a managed market place. This will position open door to have a mix of on and off-balance sheet transactual volumes to enable capital efficient market share gain for years to come.
We plan to scale this product in three phases. First, we're focused on perfecting the consumer experience. Second, we will build a putty and network effects in the individual market. And third, we'll refine our playbook and scale to all markets.
Given our highly focused investment approach this year, we expected being phases one and two for 2023, meaning we'll go deep and selected markets to build a putty and selection that's required for a great user experience.
While our business remains significant long-term, we're realigning our near-term goal to 30% of transactions in our marketplace by the end of the year in those markets where we've launched exclusives.
As we look ahead, we're energized about our future. We've set clear goals that will stabilize the business in the short term while strengthening our foundation for the long term.
And we believe we have the team, the balance sheet, and plans in place to ensure we realize these goals. With every customer we serve, we're more convinced that the current process of buying and selling a home is broken.
We delivered 2.9 billion of revenue down 25% versus prior year due to slower resale clearance rates and our decision to reduce our acquisition pace beginning mid-year during a time of significant market uncertainty.
For the full year, we acquired 34,962 homes down 5% versus 2021. Our growth profit was 2.5% and our contribution margin was negative 7.2% in the fourth quarter, which reflects our resale mix that is weighted to the Q2 cohort of longer-dated, lower margin homes, as well as the seasonal softness typically seen in the fourth quarter.
Our new book of homes or homes we offered on starting in July of last year is performing well above our expectations and off to a stronger start than acquisition cohorts from prior years. This demonstrates the strength of our value proposition, which despite record spread still enables us to create attractive cohorts in the negative HPA environment.
Notwithstanding the macro challenges we faced beginning in the second quarter of 2022, our full year contribution margin was 3.4% compared to our annual contribution margin target of 4 to 6%. Adjusted EBITDA loss was 351 million and adjusted operating expenses totaled 144 million in the fourth quarter, both consistent with guidance.
We ended 2022 with adjusted EBITDA loss of 168 million versus adjusted EBITDA 58 million in 2021. Turning to our balance sheet, as of the end of the year, we had total capital of $2 billion comprised of 1.3 billion in unrestricted cash, cash equivalence, and marketable securities, and 670 million of equity invested in our homes. In addition, we had 12 billion in non-recourse asset-backed facilities, which is significantly in excess of current inventory levels. We expect that we will reduce our committed capacity in 2023. This will lower our required restricted cash levels and associated interest costs.
As we enter 2023, we are highly focused on preserving capital and operating with strong cost disciplines. Our goal is to return the business to positive adjusted net income upon delivering approximately $10 billion of annualized retail revenue, which we expect to achieve by mid 2024. Assuming some normalization in the housing market, we expect to be able to return to this pace by resuming the market share we had three years ago, adjusted for the more than doubling of our market footprint.
We are continuing to operate with a cautious stance in the near term, as we believe the FEDS actions will continue to dictate the outlook for housing. That said, as Kerry mentioned, we have started to see some early signs of housing stabilization, which has in turn allowed us to reduce risk from the record levels we were embedding for most of the back half of last year.
In terms of guidance, we expect our Q1 revenue to be between 2.45 to 2.65 billion, and adjusted EBITDA loss to be between 350 and 370 million. Adjusted off-ex, which we define as the delta between contribution margin and adjusted EBITDA, is expected to be around 130 million. Consistent with this guidance, we expect our contribution margins will trough in the first quarter before returning to positive levels in the second half of the year as we increase our new book of inventory.
2023 is an important year for Open Door. We will lean into our core strengths and operate with agility and efficiency across the business to ensure that we exit the year stronger and more resilient. We will also invest our capital wisely, focusing on the initiatives that best position us for long-term sustainable growth. Our goal remains to be a profitable market leader and generational company.
I will now open the call for a question. Thank you.
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Our first question comes from the line of Nick Jones with JMP Securities. Your line is now open. Great. Thank you for taking the questions if I could add to.
On first, just around negative unit margins, when we think about the full year, it sounds like maybe the first half will still be negative and then it will improve in the back half. Is that the right way to think about it?
Hey Nick, I'm going to turn over to Kristi. The new voice on our call today just by way of background. Kristi has been with Open Door for six years. She's a chief accounting officer and has very capably stepped up to be interim CFO. So I'll hand over to Kristi.
Hi Nick, happy to take the question. We expect to return positive unit margins by the second half of 2023. Right now, our results are reflecting a mix of old book and new book and we've added some transparency on the margins of each book into our shareholder letter.
We've been very focused on selling our old book as expeditiously as possible while also preserving margins and we expect 85 percent to be sold through or in contract by the end of Q1. As soon as we cycle through the Q2 offer, we're in the new book inventory and we feel really good about those margins.
The new book of inventory delivered 9.7 percent contribution margining Q4 and we expect it to perform in line with our target of 4 to 6 percent contribution margin once fully sold through. So as such, we expect to return to positive unit margins by the second half as the mix of inventory we're selling shifts back to the new book.
Great, thanks and then maybe on just some of the efficiencies. Can you maybe unpack where we should look to see those show up as we progress through 2023?
Yeah, I think that's it's carried. It's really across the entirety of our business. It'll show up a little bit in the CM line but it'll also show up in our variable SGNA and our FISCOP structure. It's really a positive initiative designed to improve margin, reduce cost, increase operator efficiency, what have you. So we'll show up across the board.
Great, thank you both. Okay, thank you. Our next question comes from the line of J. McAnlis with Wedbush. Your line is now open.
太好了,非常感谢你们两位。好的,谢谢。下一个问题来自Wedbush的J. McAnlis,请发言。
Hey, thanks for taking my questions. I guess the first one because you talked again, I'm just what you were saying about the 100-5th I guess of cost reductions by 24 from structural efficiencies and cost savings. Could you break that out please?
Yeah, I'm happy to. It's carried again. You know, we sitting here today in a moment where we have you know lower volumes in the system. It is the perfect opportunity for us frankly to go off through a lot of basis points we have in the system and just be more efficient. We've been building for years for scale and velocity and now we want to build for long-term efficiency and really build more durable savings back into the business. Those savings are going to come, they just said the neck across the whole house of areas.
Some of it will show up in the contribution margin line, i.e. in the unit line. Some of those fill up in our variable SG&A. Just in the efficiency of our operators, our home ops team, market ops. It'll show up also with lower fixed off-ex over time as we reduce some of our direct spend. Those are initiatives that we are going after through the course of 2023. The spilt impact to them, we don't expect to realize though until 2024. And that's where the 100 basis points will show up next year.
And then I guess the second question, you know, you bought 3,400 homes this quarter. Is something more along that number or call it sub 5,000? Is that a better run rate, I guess, for where the business is now? And especially if you're going to be taking down facility capacity in your credit facilities this year, is running it kind of that slower 3 to 5,000 pace, what we should expect over the next four quarters.
Yeah, I'll take the first part of that question, just comment a little bit about where we're pacing right now in terms of acquisition and how that's showing up and then I'll turn it over to Don to talk through how we're thinking about capital structure and financing and light of really pacing and volume.
The first part of your question is two components of volumes right now. One is what's going in the market and the second is what's going on with our spread. And on the market side, you know, sellers are on the sidelines. I mean, we all know that. Transactions are down 40% year on year. If you look across our markets in our buy box, do listings that will lower the revenue since 2004. And that just means there are fewer sellers in the market for us to engage with right now.
On our end, we're continuing to bid high spread into our offers. And as you know, high spreads for us mean lower offers, low is offers, lead to lower conversion, at least a lower contract. We have decreased our spread a fair bit since late last year when they're record levels. And I expect we'll continue to do so, just given seasonal tailwinds as we come to the new year. And also the fact that the housing market started to firm up a little bit. But the reality is the housing market remains uncertain. And we're going to keep you operating the fair little bit of caution. And we'll continue to operate with high spreads for the foreseeable future. So that's on volumes.
We don't break out where we're pacing specifically on volumes. I can tell you, you know, supervalent tends to be a jumping off point for a lot of home sellers to get back in the market. And as we've been decreasing spreads last year, you know, there's a lag in our business between offer to contract. And we do expect to see a pick up of volume as we move through the second quarter.
Studentalities go on throughout the entire year. We're seeing tailwinds right now. Studentalities shows up in the form of a slower backcast where they see increased spread in the backcast. But that's how you think about volumes for the eighties of the year.
So if you want to talk a little bit about how we're to keep us signing facility. Yeah, happy to. I think, I mean, just to highlight it, inventory balances at the end of the year, we're 4.5 billion and we have 12 billion in capacity. So that is more than adequate for the financing and sort of forward view of where we're headed.
So I think the other piece that's important to highlight is lenders like to be utilized. And so taking down that capacity is something we've done and modulating that capacity for the seven years that I've been here. So I think our, it's something we're very comfortable with reducing and feel like we will sell ample capacity to accounts for any upside to inventory.
Hey, thanks. This is Chad on for Jason. So you talked about 30% of your 23 transactions going through exclusives and markets where the marketplace has launched two questions on that. First, any sense what percent of your total markets you'll be launched in, you know, kind of by the end of the year. And then do you believe?
That's driving the return deposit of unit economics in the back half or is that just, you know, kind of the improvement in the new home cohorts? Hey, Chad, you're focused right now for three P or for marketplaces really to refine and test in a local market.
You were excited about the signal we're seeing so far. The senior singing seller is being very excited to opt into the program. We have about 3% share of the listings in the market that we're trialing it right now. So off to an encouraging start. But we really want to focus on first, perfecting the customer experience.
And then step number two is to build density and liquidity so that we can own that market. And we'll do that before we want to kind of spread out further. I don't know the number of markets will be at by the end of the year. It's, we have given an actual target. It will be relatively, I think, small number right now. But we are hoping to pace to a higher number, you know, by the end of the year into 2024.
It's unrelated to what Christie said as to how contribution margins are going to play out for the rest of the year that entirely has to do with the the mix between our old book as we sell that off and as our new book becomes a vast majority to all of our margins in the second half. Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of you go, Arunyan, with city, your line is open.
Hey, good afternoon, everyone. I want to go back to the macro for a second. And, you know, you're talking about stabilization and just kind of in the last couple of weeks we start to see rates go back up a little bit and start to see that impact mortgage demand again.
So just want to get a sense of what you're building into your spreads and what you're thinking on the macro, you know, move forward. And you're bringing your spreads down a little bit. Just want to understand what your expectations are for the as-market as we work our way through the rest of the year.
Yeah, happy to answer it. So I just look at what the where the market is right now. We're continuing to see very low supply on the market, really multi-decade lows continuing.
New listings are the lowest since 2004. So that's a good setup for more stable price in in 2023. I think it's also important to keep in mind how sort of the risks that we're taking from a housing price perspective we typically own own tour called four months.
So that's the duration of exposure we're taking. And if you look at home price appreciation, we have a fun chart in the back of our shareholder letter that shows month over month home price appreciation. If you look at the first half of the year, you almost always going back in the 80s. You see very strong home price appreciation and then that moderates in the back half of the year.
So this is the point of year where given the strong leading indicators we've seen in January, we've been able to reduce those spreads. We continue though to be very cautious of the back half of the year to your point around interest rate volatility and how that could flow through to the impact on consumer demand.
So our base cases that spread will actually need to increase in the back half of the year. Especially the Fed has to raise rates higher to come back in place and higher than people are expecting. Got it.
And in terms of market expansion, buy box and all those things, have you understanding where on risk off mode and not purchasing global homes or purchasing last year? If you pull back in any of the markets, the zero-girl strategy has been changed, but the pace of it changed, we pull back anywhere, we pull back in your buy box at all, or is that maybe just on hold in the near term until we get back to more worldwide markets.
Thanks. I think the way that we've tackled this today and in the past is through spread dispersion. So we will account for changes or higher risk by market or even by price points by charging different spread. And so you can see that play out both in terms of specific markets as well as within pockets of the market sort of dip code through otherwise. And so that's really the lever by which we adjust pricing to account for that risk. So it's not pulling back on buy box, it's not pulling specific or pulling and just being spread the charging customer stays on the riskiness of the riskiness of the market. Got it.
Thanks. Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Justin Patterson with Keveh and Capital Markets. She'll let us know. And. Great. Thank you very much and good afternoon.
谢谢。谢谢。我们下一个问题来自 Keveh and Capital Markets 的 Justin Patterson。她会让我们知道。好的。非常感谢。下午好。
意思是:感谢听众 Justin Patterson 提出问题,非常感谢并祝大家下午好。
Kerry, I wanted to go back to exclusive to start with. Can you talk about the steps to build density than those markets and just really get the supply you need to succeed with that and purchase frames, also the code business. And then just a secondary question on a Zillow relationship. I know it's very, very early year. But could you just talk about how we think about the pace of that relationship expanding, moving at the new markets. I think about the conversion quality from that funnel versus some of the other channels you lean on.
Thank you. Yeah. Hey Justin, do you want to bring the first part of your first question? You broke up there a little bit for me. I had a hard time hearing it.
谢谢。嗯。嘿,贾斯汀,你要开始谈你的第一个问题的第一部分吗?你的话断断续续的,我听得有些吃力。
Oh, sorry about that. The first question was just around phase two of the exclusive product. Can you talk about just the steps needed to build density and market for that? It's really the aggregating supply and then from there, you know, aggregating fire demands. Which, you know, we haven't had started on through our 1p business, but it's really about buying, bringing more buyers into the system over time. On the Zillow side, as you said, it's early. I mean, we had a Valentine's Day launch so far, so good. We're optimistic and enthusiastic about the prospects for that partnership. We'll expect to launch it in more markets over the course of the year. But for us, we think it's going to be a very interesting and creative marketing channel for us. It just allows us to put our brand and our offer in front of a lot more home sellers.
Thank you. Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Curtis Nagle, with Bank of America. Is your line of self-in?
谢谢。谢谢。下一个问题来自银行业 Bank of America 的 Curtis Nagle。您的电话线接通了吗?
Great. Thanks for taking the question. I just wanted to focus for a second on spreads. And so, you know, Newport, Newport, you took up spreads, led to some nice contribution margins so far. I'll be at a lower volumes. I'm not sure if I heard this incorrectly, but it sounds like you might be pulling back a spread a little bit as we go further into the year. And if that's the case, how does that impact, you know, potential contribution margins, if that were the case?
The comment we made is one, we have been pulling even reducing spreads since late last year when they're at record levels. You know, peak uncertainty, record levels spread. And we were reducing them as we've come into the new year, two reasons, seasonal tailwind and two, we have seen signs of the housing market, you know, stabilizing the comments that dogmaid are only about where we are in terms of HPA prospects, the underpinning of like, it has some supply and the listings were hand-new. We just expected to continue to do so for a while. That being said, seasonal tailwind turned into seasonal headwinds in the second half of the year, every year. So there is some chance that we'll look to like, raise spreads again in the back half of the year. We'll see. I mean, this is, you know, I think the beauty of our business is that it's dynamic and we're able to raise spread the response to what we're seeing in the market and we'll continue to do so as we get more signal.
Okay, got it. And then just to follow up the one-cube guidance, you know, for the, you know, 3D-390 negatives, even us, how should we think about the gap gross margins that would be incorporating to that?
Hey Curtis, I'll take that. We don't generally provide guidance on gap gross margins. You can kind of back into contribution margin, you've been adjusted even on adjusted off-back. And you can, you know, you can look at our, you can look at the table for the new book and old book of inventory and our shareholder letter to get a night yet of the margins, the gross gap gross margins that were seen on those two books. There's also a breakout of inventory by a new book and old book and a shareholder letter that would be helpful.
Okay, got it. Thank you. Thank you. As a reminder to ask a question at this time, please press star 11 or you touched on telephone.
Our next question comes from the line of Ryan Tomasolo with KVW. Your line is still open. Hi everyone, thanks for taking the questions. Can you maybe provide a bit more detail for how you plan to get to adjusted income profitability at 10 billion of revenue? What assumptions you're baking in there for contribution margins, a mix of 1p, 3p, op-x, etc. I guess just running some back of the envelope math, assuming 5% contribution margins imply that you're assuming significant efficiencies on either the financing or op-x, or maybe baking in higher unit economics altogether. So just trying to understand the moving pieces there. Thanks.
Yeah, I'm happy to take that one. Right. I mean, number one, there's mentioned we're highly focused on returning our business to adjust an income profitability as quickly as possible. For us at hitting point $10 billion of annualized revenue to get there. And we believe we should get back there by say the middle of 2024, assuming number one assumption a more normalized home environment. If you go back at 2019 and look at where we were, which is a more good analog for normal housing market, and you think about the share we have back then, and you adjust it for just where we are today, which is 4x bigger in terms of the combination of additional buy-box expansion and new markets. You know, with life for like share, frankly, even a little less than life for like share, get you back to $10 billion in 2024. So that's on the top line. I don't think you have to squint too hard to get to that number. And then by the way, add on much greater brand awareness than we add in 2019, much cheaper partnership channels, what have you. And then on the margin side, we still think about the one P business contributing 4 to 6 percent. But as I said in my earlier comments, we're going after at least 100 basis points of margin throughout the entire system. And we'd expect to be back to normalized turns, called out, you know, three to three and a half turns a year. I think you put all that together and you get to AI positive. It does not have large assumptions for a mix of capital light or asset light business, IE3P or necessarily, for example. And again, you are buys, our buys is to be conservative on how we kind of put out these markers. And so we haven't been, that is a lot of new product lines into that number. So we feel good about the $10 billion marker.
Okay, great. And then the cook follow-up would be just trying to understand how you're thinking about the capital requirements for the business. Once you move past the two-queue core heart here, and the business mix transitions to a balance of both the one P and three P transactions, is there a minimum level of cash you are targeting that provides you with a large enough balance sheet to support what will still be a capital intensive one P business while also providing you with enough flexibility to invest in scaling the three P business, which I assume you would look to consider some marketing spend there to drive adoption. Thanks.
Yes, happy to answer that. So I think we're very comfortable executing our business plan with the two-billion capital that we have today, 1.3 billion and unrestricted cash. We don't guide beyond the first quarter, but to your point, we do have minimum cash requirements in our financing facilities, but those are substantially below where our current cash fall into this. So I think the plan that we've articulated, the plan that we're going after, we are very comfortable with two-billion capital, is more than enough to finance the plans we're remarking against. Thank you.
Our next question comes from the line of Ryan McKevney with Zelman and Associates. Your line is now open.
我们的下一个问题来自Ryan McKevney与Zelman and Associates,请发言。
Hi, thank you very much. Just to come back to exclusives, I have a three-part question, so I'll throw it out all at once. So you mentioned in a letter that you began to offer exclusives as an option to sellers in 4Q.
So firstly, just any thoughts you can share on the initial reception from home sellers.
首先,您有哪些关于房屋销售者初步接受程度的想法可以分享吗?
Second part of the question more generally, can you just talk about the value proposition of two home sellers of exclusives? I think we all understand the value prop around the 1P model with convenience and certainty of the cash offer, etc. But maybe you can talk about how you frame that value prop of ultimately why would a seller go the 3P option compared to listing traditionally.
And then the last piece, and I can come back to these, sorry, it's a long question. Lastly, I think last quarter, you mentioned a 5% service fee for third-party transactions. Is that still the expectation? And is that 5% service fee? Is that specific to what a home seller would pay the list? Or is that possibly some combination of kind of a fee charge to the seller, but also a fee charge to the home buyer?
So we started with exclusive listing. That was taking our open door own inventory and windowing it in effect to buyers. They should come and buy the home on an as is where a 60 basis. And we have had really good success with that. We had a sales for anywhere 15 to 20% in the first two weeks on those exclusive listing homes. I was using our inventory and we continued to pursue that model.
Step two, you might think it's part, second part of your question was around what's the value prop of the seller? The value prop to them is, if they opt into putting in their home in the marketplace, they're still looking at a scenario where they are not enduring more than one showing. Then they have a limited window time by which we are going to surface multiple offers for them. One from the institutional network that we have in our relationships, which we've had for years now, we can have monetized those and bring those offers to the floor that they can't otherwise get. And we can other bring other offers from other buyers and our network to them. And then they have the option to choose to take that price or not. The obvious deals that have the backup of our certain old cash offer is that's up in the one available stuff. So it's a lot less burdensome, plus time.
There's so certainty in the process again, that's the superior to the traditional selling process today. That's the value prop to them. As for the economic, I suspect we'll continue to think about what they have in the experiment over time. Today we charge 85% fee to the seller and we're sharing some of that with the buyer. How that shakes out over time. I don't know, so I think I'm a little low to commit to this specific of the unit economics quite now. That for example doesn't include any services attached. There's no title desk going there. All those things to come, but that's that is where we're at today.
One additional question. The comment about list with certainty. I don't believe, I've heard you talked about that before, so maybe you can just expand on on what that product is, you know, and how that how that kind of fits into the into the broader equation.
Yeah, I mean, in this high spread environment, the good news is that we can still convert 10% of sellers because they're indexing on certainly giving you, but there's 90% that we're not addressing in the current high spread environment. We want to make sure that we still give them the option to move. And so we are expanding our list with certainty products. They can list their home in the market with us to maximize market price, still retain the certainty our own cash offer so they can take it any time. And so far, we're seeing about 20, 25% of customers choose with the certainty we're presented with that option. So we're optimistic that we'll be driving more asset-like volumes through that product over time in this environment.
Thank you. Our last question comes from the line of Jay McCannless with what push in life has opened.
谢谢您。我们最后一个问题来自Jay McCannless,请问您生活中什么推动了您前进的动力?
Hey, thanks for taking my follow up. So just carry on with it to push a little bit more on if the mortgage market doesn't go down the mortgage rate is not going down if mortgage rates actually go up from here. And we see sellers being more reluctant to get out of the house there and now I guess what's plan B and what does the business look like in that scenario? Do you walk away from higher price markets so you're not having to carry as much on the credit facilities? Do you go heavier? I don't know into whether it's payments to get listing things like that. Just maybe walk us through an environment where rates go up and set it down.
Yeah, I mean, I'd say at the highest level, I think we show and hopefully in what we've provided in the shareholder letter, we can still create a track of unique economics, a track of cohorts, even in this environment of high rates, high mortgage rate, rate volatility. And we should expect it to continue to do so.
You know, I mortgage rates have been pretty volatile the last couple of weeks. We're reflecting that and how we adjust for spreads. So we'll continue to do that for the course of the year.
If volumes are continue to be surprised for the industry and they can continue to be down and up for just for a long period of time, we know there's imperative that we manage our cost structure. You know, a capital good news is we have a lot of it, but we're very dear. And so it's a barrier that we mitigate losses and preserve books value. And we're going to manage the business without a mind. So we're not managing it to the absolute point of the trust today. But if I look, we had a 2024, if that's sort of implicit in your comments, and we're in for a longer-troph period in the housing cycle, we'll take a hard look at our cost structure and light it up. We'll have to.
I would now like to hand the conference back over to Carrie Willer for closing remarks.
我现在想把会议交回给Carrie Willer,做结束性的总结发言。
I just want to thank everyone for joining us this morning today. It's hopefully virtual month. We feel confident with decisions we've made today to navigate what has been a challenging housing environment, enabling us to achieve both our customer goals and our long-term financial objectives. So thank you, and we look forward to talking to you again soon.