First of all, things that we want for joining. Make sure you raise your hand if you have a question. We will start with a little intro from Tyler, telling us about OpenDOS Q4. But make sure you already raise your hands now. So we have some questions lined up to discuss and talk about.
Cool. All right, thanks to Vashin. And thanks everybody for joining the spaces. We really wanted to do this spaces right after earnings, while it was fresh. And everyone kind of had questions at the top of their minds. But unfortunately, I couldn't make it because of a working engagement. But we're here now. And I think there's still a lot to discuss. And there really hasn't been much coverage of OpenDOS earnings, which was important for a few different reasons. But I'm just going to kind of walk through some of the highlights that I think are probably worth diving into tonight. And then after that, if anyone has any questions, we can start kind of going deeper into the quarter.
So at a high level, OpenDOS, beat on the top line, and missed on the bottom line. Certainly for our own internal expectations, believe they came in with 7,512 homes sold, 2.9 billion, and revenue, adjusted gross margins of negative 3.2%. And homeless purchase of 3,427. And on the call, there were some notable announcements.
Number one, their chief investment officer, Daniel Marillo, announced his resignation the day before the earnings call. He had been heading up the data and pricing teams for OpenDOS for a few years up into that point. And he was going to be, he came from Citadel and before that blackstone. And he was heading back to the hedge fund world, which in which he will indubitably make quite a bit more money.
Another point worth mentioning is that new CEO, Carrie Wheeler, outlined new guidance for cost-cutting initiatives. So she plans to eliminate 100 basis points of cost from OpenDOS operating structure over the next year. And she thinks that's conservative. And she also mentioned new guidance for third party, the third party marketplace. So previously, Eric Wu had said that they intend for third party marketplace to be 30% of all of OpenDOS transactions by the end of 2023. We were a little skeptical of that. And she backed that estimate to 30%. Of transaction share only in the markets that exclusive is active. So exclusive is currently active in Austin, Houston, DFW, which are all big markets for OpenDOS, but definitely a smaller estimate, more like 4% of total transaction share versus 30% of all transaction share.
One of the highlights of the call was they mentioned that list with OpenDOS or list with certainty had conversion rates of 20% to 25% for real sellers, which was really exciting because it's another way that OpenDOS can monetize the transaction in an asset light off balance-sheet way. So high profit margins, very similar to third party marketplace, with the caveat being that list with certainty is only active in one market right now.
And I think last but not least, probably the part that we've been most intent on figuring out is OpenDOS guidance. So for the quarter, OpenDOS provided Revenue and Adjusted EBITDA guidance. Revenue, I believe, 2.45 billion and Adjusted EBITDA, let's see, of negative 350 to negative 370 million. So if you back that out, that comes to an Adjusted Gross margin of negative 5% at the midpoint, which would be about 180 basis points lower than what they posted for Q4.
And for us, because we're monitoring all the data, we found this kind of interesting because it's a lot worse than they did in Q4. And Q4, they sold 90% of their sales were from the Q2 offer cohort. That's down precipitously in Q1, and certainly in Q2, as well, and we've seen improving margins. So that's something that we've been monitoring and really poking at and trying to figure out where the discrepancy is. And I think we have some solutions, but not all of it. And it's going to make for an interesting quarter when they finally do report.
Great. Thanks, Tyler, for the summary. If you have any questions, make sure to visit your hands so we can get you up here, so speaker. One thing that we can double click on while we're waiting for some questions is the new lineup for 2023 for the seller products. Right now, first party, OpenDocache offers are at a record low conversion rate of 10%. Most of you to the offers being bad and low and the current market being frozen in terms of volume.
So basically, OpenDocache has last year announced that exclusive will kind of fill that gap with better offers because they would list the home on exclusives and get real offers from sellers that they're looking, so from buyers that are looking at exclusives and from other institutions. That was kind of their plan to get to 30% of their sales through that in 2023.
Now, as you mentioned, they kind of attracted goal a little bit mainly to them saying that the product is not quite in a state yet, where they want to roll it out to more markets because that would make it a lot harder. If you're only in one state in free markets, you can change fundamental pieces of the experience much faster than if you rolled out to 10 or 20 markets for that kind of makes sense.
And what they are backfilling or what they alternatives is they want to offer sellers aside from that, is this list of certainty product. Which we heard the first time in the earnings school, they opened a list with OpenDoc product before and was more of like, hey, we connect you to a part-language in and they will list the home for you and it will cost you less than it would cost you with a regular realtor.
But they never promoted it. It wasn't ever part of the seller funnel when you come in together cash offer. Well, now because they're conversion rate and they're officer are quite low because they have to be risk off and expect to hold the home longer. And with the longer holding time, they also have to incorporate the housing price depreciation that might happen during that time.
They will offer that sell a funnel that they have to partner agents and basically have an alternative to list your home on the MLS with a partner agent and still have the first party office of backup. So you'll get connected to a partner agent from OpenDoc, you'll list your home like you would do with a regular realtor.
It's a little bit of a different experience, I guess they also aim for most of the experience not being in person, you don't have to go to like a realtor's office, you just do it from your home. But in the end, if you can't sell an MLS, you can always fall back to the offer that OpenDoc gave you and it will be a discounted offer.
So because if a home is listed on the MLS and doesn't sell, obviously, the development of the home was depreciated. So that's kind of the lineup for this year. They have to cash off a business, which is currently at a conversion rate low. They will have list of certain D, currently only one market, but likely rolling out to more soon.
And then they have to free for the marketplace exclusive business that is currently on the available in Texas. And they said they might roll this out to more markets by the end of the year.
然后他们必须为市场提供目前仅在得克萨斯州可用的独家业务。他们表示可能会在年底前将此推广到更多市场。
Do you have any questions? I'm just going to check the Discord. If you have a question, I want to chat with us. Just raise your hand and we can get you out here. This is Peter.
We've got one request here. Hey David. Can you hear me? Yes. Yeah, thanks for taking my question. So I guess I was just in light of the Q4 earnings results and what feels like maybe a, I don't know, like kind of a difference between what's publicly accessible that Datador can scrape and what OpenDoer is doing, maybe behind the scenes in terms of on there, and of things, whether it's, I don't know, like incentives that aren't publicly visible.
Do you feel like that poses a problem for the accuracy of the Datador information stream that at least was thought to give maybe investors a competitive advantage in terms of like the crystal ball into the future, whereas now it looks like there's much more of a, I don't know, like a invisible kind of, like there's a lot more, a lot less visibility.
Do you think that that's possibly true moving forward? And if so, yeah, kind of, are there any ideas about how to navigate that landscape in terms of investment thesis moving forward?
你认为这可能是未来的真相吗?如果是的话,有没有关于如何在投资论点上驾驭这个局面的想法?
Yeah, that's a great question, thanks David. I can tell you, I can tell you, after the earnings result came in and, you know, gross margin, adjusted gross margin came in lower than we expected. We really spent that weekend and really the rest of that week going over the numbers and trying to figure out what the discrepancy was. And we tried it a few different ways. And, you know, at first, which I've sort of spelled out, we wondered if it was more of a calculation problem.
And, every way we did the numbers, they all came out the same. And then, you know, we assumed, okay, maybe it's the non-disclosure states, right? Because we can only, we only have visibility into the sales data for disclosure states. So, states like Texas, which is a fourth of open doors business, we don't have any data on sales margin. And so, even if you assume the worst for those non-disclosure states, the gross margin just doesn't make a lot of sense. And so, part of what we are in the process of doing is edge case right now.
So, we're trying to find all the different edge cases that could explain the discrepancy between the margins and trying to use that to create a better model. And I think we have some good ideas for ways that we can get closer. And certainly some proxies that we haven't considered before, that on back tests already make a few of our metrics more accurate. I can say, you look at all the other metrics that we assess for revenue, homes purchase, home sold, we were, you know, less than 6-10 of 1% to weigh from actual on that.
So, I still think that there's a lot of value in that. And then when you go back to the past 22 quarters that we have data for the quarterly estimates, the gross margin has always been much, much closer than this quarter. So, I think that we are seeing a phenomenon right now that probably has a lot to do with open door attempting to sell off as much inventory as possible very quickly. And using whatever leverage they possibly can to offload that inventory. And so, I think in that regard, it's a little bit of a unique situation. And it makes sense that they were able to achieve such incredible volumes using some sort of incentive or some sort of measure to accelerate those, those resales. But to your point, we take this very serious, very seriously.
It's our business to be right, not to be bullish on open door, not to be bearish on open door, just to be plain and fair and right. And so, definitely for Q1, we've already revised our gross margin estimates down for the quarter with the assumption that there's some sort of incentive structure, or some loss of gross margin in these transactions. And that being said, there's also like limits to what open door can give in concessions since you can't just report a number on the sales deed and then actually collect a different number.
So, there's some rules around the amount of seller credits you can give for, even if they do rate buy downs for the buyer, there's a limit to that, right, that the lender allows for. It's not going to be unlimited. For now, we probably have to go a bit broader in the range that we estimate for and obviously we're looking to, different ways too, improve the estimate. We are still, we are very accurate in the number of sales and purchases. I'm pretty proud of that. And that gives, that is an important number as well because it doesn't matter how much, especially in the rest of this year, like volume will be a really important thing we need to look at. Thanks.
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I'll go ahead and ask another question. I don't know. This is David again. But I guess one of the things that concerns me as an investor and pretty heavily invested, probably inappropriately so. But I guess one of the things that concerned me was the fact that Eric Wu was absent from the call. I guess I understand that he's shifted roles relative to his kind of passing over to a character healer. And I think, you know, I think there's potentially good reasons. But I guess at least for me, I'm starting to notice some concern about maybe there's a story behind the story is the cover story, the actual story, is it that he is dedicated to product?
And I guess I'm just trying to figure out or maybe behind the signs and trying to sus out if there's more afoot than at least the cover story is. And maybe that's just the nature of it being down and so anxiety or paranoia creeps in. But I do know of many companies where for sure the cover story is, you know, we're transitioning, yada, yada, yada. And behind the scenes, there's more turmoil.
So I guess I'm just wondering if anybody has any thoughts or ideas about that because I did find it. I at least for me would be easier to stomach transition if it still felt like, okay, everybody's still here on board and his absence seemed to me to be a point of concern.
I think that's another question, David. I think that there are three likely reasons, probably all contributing that Eric was on the call. One I would say is at least anecdotally, Eric hates interviews. And he really doesn't like being involved in that, which I think has been frustrating at times.
But everyone we know who knows Eric has said that he really doesn't like doing press, he doesn't like really talking to anyone but individual investors. I think that's one, two, it's Carrie's first call as the CEO. And I think, you know, take that for what it is, but perhaps you wanted her own space, or, you know, to run the show on her end, hard to know. And then three is, this call was anti-third party, right?
我们所有认识 Eric 的人都说他真的不喜欢做媒体宣传,他不喜欢和除个别投资者以外的任何人交谈。我认为这有一、二个原因,第一是这是 Carrie 担任首席执行官后的第一个通话。你知道,这可能是为了让她有自己的空间或者掌控局面,很难说。其次,这次通话是反对第三方的,对吧?
Like, Eric is now president of Marketplace. The company previously had sort of talked about the idea that third party Marketplace was going to fix the margin issue by the end of 2023. But really, this call was saying, no, we're not going to do that. The focus is on making the first party business work. And so what Carrie seemed to want to focus on was getting through the Q2 offer cohort, lowering the cost structure and scaling the third party Marketplace prudently.
But for Eric, I think it would have been a tough call because basically his previous estimate was, you know, called seven times bigger than it was actually going to be. He was just moved to president marketplace and opened or just posted their largest loss ever. I think for all of those reasons, it was probably not super exciting for him to get on stage and be, you know, beyond the call as well.
And so those are the guesses that I would hazard as to why he wasn't as involved in this call. And I assume that currently what most analysts and investors are also interested in is how open the world survived this. And it felt like the call was all around, like laying out a plan that is very much led by Carrie and Dodd. I was happy to see Dodd there. He's the new chief. I agree.
He's definitely stepping up in his role and maybe taking on some of the responsibilities that Daniel Merudo left behind when he's going to leave later in March. So it was good to have them there. One thing I want to see by the end of the year when focus changes on exclusives and deferred party marketplace again is I would like to have every day, obviously.
And we'll see if that will happen. Thanks. We have a send-d here with a question and we also have a question in the discord we can get to. Classics. Hello. Thanks for taking the questions, guys. So just to follow up on the last question.
So we know we are excited about the 3P marketplace and given the earnings call. You know, they have not mentioned anything. They want to just stray away from it. So how are you guys planning on getting, is there a way to get that data that the same the purchase from Open Door is happening in 3P, via 3P or via 1P marketplace? Is there a way that you guys are figuring it out like how we will be able to get data so that we know that this is happening in 3P or 1P? Thanks.
So how we are approaching data collection on the 3P site is we scrape all the homes that are listed on Open Door exclusives basically multiple times a day and some of those homes are Open Door owned and we see that they're pre-MLS homes that open their first list on exclusives for 14 days and then they go on the market. So we can observe if those 3rd party homes were sold by exclusives in that 14 day window or after that for the 3rd party homes, we basically see that there's a home that is not owned by Open Door and we can see how long it's listed there and if it goes into contract.
Currently we see if a home that is listed goes into contract then from that point we add this home to an observed list and we see if this home actually ends up selling. Now there's a second aspect of this 3rd party marketplace which involves institutional investors and if the seller sells to an institutional investor which historically has been like 10% to 15% of Open Door sales, we cannot observe that.
So that is a gap in our data and we will need to rely on whatever Open Door tells us about the 3rd party marketplace here. So we only have part of the data that how the 3rd party marketplace actually works. I would say that it's the more important part. Like I'm happy they are making sales institutions but they will always be like a ceiling on that. Well if the 3rd party marketplace goes really well and the real sellers, real buyers, transacting on this marketplace with Open Door being just the party in between, that is where the Ultra Bull case comes in. That's what we're really interested in.
Yeah, no, that's a good starting point. So now if I have to think about it, now we can get in those regions that I'm not really sure about where they are with the 3p's. I believe there are 3 cities or 3 states. So we can have the inventory that Open Door owns in those states and then the listing that are off those lists. So that could be the 3p part and out of those, how many close it all goes into contract and then end up getting closed. We can get some sort of a percentage in those states, no? Am I missing anything? Sorry.
Yeah, we could get the percent of homes in those markets that are selling by the exclusive market place. And this is a number, at least for the first party homes that listen to exclusives that we have in the data to a dashboard. On the 3rd party homes, we don't really know what the total amount of people is that go through the funnel. We just see which end up listing and how many of those go into content and how many gets sold. I mean, there are not that a huge volume right now of homes here listing. So it's relatively small, but this is one thing we will be looking at and reporting is like, what is the conversion rate from being listed to going into contract and being sold just like we have the data as well for the first party homes.
Okay, okay, great. Thanks. And just one follow up on that. So what did you guys think? I just want to have one of your opinion on, you know, how Kerry went on about, okay, in 2024, we'll have a 10 billion from 1p and then, you know, adjusting net income positive. And she's only looking at that 1p marketplace. And she's not even summing up anything coming from 3p, right? What are your thoughts? What were your thoughts around that?
Yeah, I, I mean, I think even in her own words, it was a, it was a conservative estimate regarding her expectations for 2024. I think, I think both Sebastian and I were a little, a little surprised about the revenue run rate guide, given that, you know, they're far above that number for both Q4 and Q1 in terms of top line guidance. But, but then again, it seemed like she was saying that they really don't intend to acquire very many homes in the near future, which, you know, obviously is going to bring down, bring down revenue. But I, I think if they actually are going to get 30% market share of the third party marketplace in the markets that exclusive is active. As I said earlier, that would be 4% of overall transaction volume if we're just doing DFW Houston and Austin. And they said that they're going to add more markets probably throughout the year. So, you know, I would expect that number to be at least around 10% plus by mid 2024. And if List with Open Door has a little bit more traction and is released in additional markets, it would be surprising for those to not contribute to the bottom line in some sort of, in some sort of meaningful way.
嗯,我觉得即使是她自己的话,她对2024年的期望也是保守估计。我们对营收的预估指导有些惊讶,因为从一线指导来看,Q4和Q1的收入都高于该数。但是,她似乎在说他们并不打算在近期收购太多房屋,这显然会降低收入。但是,如果他们真的在Exclusive活跃的市场上得到了第三方市场的30%份额,就像我之前说过的,在仅考虑DFW Houston和Austin的情况下,这将占总交易量的4%。他们还说他们可能会在今年内增加更多的市场。因此,我预计到2024年中期,这个数字至少会达到10%以上。如果List with Open Door有更多的市场吸引力并在其他市场发布,那么它会以某种有意义的方式为底线做出贡献,这也不足为奇。
Okay, thank you. Thank you. Hey, Tyler and Seb, thanks for taking my question. Obviously, we want to, you know, get through this phase and, you know, put the queue to cohort behind us. But my question is like, you know, what if mortgage rates go to like 8% and then let's pretend that, you know, all of the markets where they have a queue to cohort inventory. If the prices drop, let's say another 10 to 15% this summer, due to the mortgage rate impact, what would be the impact to Open Door's, you know, balance sheet and, you know, can they get through this period? Thank you.
Hey, thanks. Thanks for the question. I think, I think, yeah, it would be, it would be concerning if we got into another situation similar to the summer of 2022. I think, I think Open Door probably wouldn't survive something like that if they were buying at the same volume that they were, you know, in that summer.
I think I posted a tweet the other day that in May, Open Door bought nine times as many homes as they did in January. And so I think there was, there were a lot of issues that led to Open Door having this year-long plus drag on their, on their business, on their cash and their margins.
I think one of them was, it was a historically hot market that accelerated basically into a brick wall, right? And so that's very different than today, which we can talk about sort of the macro backdrop of today, but it's a very different environment right now.
Two, they were buying so many homes at the time that the market crashed. They're not buying practically any homes right now. And I think when it comes to the Q2 offer cohort, we expect Open Door to be, you know, in the 95 plus percent of the way sold, you know, give or take a few hundred basis points of the Q2 offer cohort by the end of Q2.
And, you know, we're in March right now. So that's just a few more months away. And so the overhang for them, the total inventory that they actually have on their balance sheet right now is pretty low. So they are positioned unquestionably better right now for any sort of dislocation in the market.
That's sort of the positioning part. The second piece is the macro, right? And like what is currently going on in the market? And, you know, mortgage rates are already above 7% I believe, or at least they were recently. So 8% doesn't seem so far away. Certainly wouldn't be a huge shock, right?
But I think what's currently going on in the housing market is even though mortgage rates are up, inventory supply just continues to drop. And so I think that that's a huge buffer for prices, right? Because there's just so few supply and demand is actually the access that's being favored right now.
So, you know, could we be in another situation where housing drops and quickly sure, but it just seems like that's kind of already happened. And certainly the delta, I think, couldn't really be much larger barring some sort of, you know, black swan event. I think the big run up to the hottest housing market to suddenly having a market where no deals were done. That's really what drove a lot of the collapse in, in, you know, the price of open doors equity in these homes.
And I guess after that, Open.dead did have quite high margins at the end of Q2 last year. So they were preparing for, they had highest spread. They were preparing for something to happen, but not what actually happened.
Now we are, if we look at the spreads or the embedded margin, this is how we kind of observed that. For the newest cohorts, it's like another magnitude difference. Right there, they're really risk off and the purchases they are doing. They, they make sure they have enough buffer there that even if prices would drop 50%, things wouldn't go as bad as they did last year.
Right. Like you look at the, if you back out the contribution margin before interest of homes that opened or purchased. Beyond August, so anything from September and beyond the contribution profit margin is north of 10% most cases. And I think as a whole, it's certainly around that, that number.
So it kind of gives you an idea that. If this, if this event didn't happen. Or if open door continues operating operating at this low volume, they can certainly do it at very high margin, even in a, even in a down market.
See, I think that's fair, you know, you know, I'm a big bull, right? But my biggest concern is like, you know, in order to hit that 10 billion dollar run rate. You know, it's so it's 2.5 billion a quarter. They got to sell roughly, let's say, 7,500 homes a quarter. You know, they got to really be offering like 15% less because they got a account for the cost of borrowing. You know, at like a 15% drag, I don't know if I would sell my home to like open door. Right? And I am a bull. So, you know, I'm just worried that, you know, if it, if it does go to like 8%, then, you know, prices do, let's say drop like another 7 to 8%. And then the offers, right? You know, if the offers are ridiculously low, I don't even know if they can, you know, transact 8 billion, sorry, 8,000 homes a quarter for like another, let's say, you know, three to four quarters. And that's just going to impact their balance sheet quite a bit, right? So, they may have paid the raise capital or I don't know, there's a lot of uncertainty. And I'm just like a little bit worried.
I think that's a totally fair concern. And I think you bring up a lot of great points that are reasonable for the bear case. I will say, I think, one of the things that we've seen for open door is that they can actually transact in volume. And sometimes it's unclear where they choose to transact and why. But I will say, you know, situations like the Zillow partnership, as that's turned on in more marketplaces, that's a much broader funnel for purchase acquisitions. It's just a, it's just a much, much larger aperture of home sellers that are walking through open doors funnel. And I think that gives me a little bit more comfort.
I mean, the fact that it's only in two markets right now is unfortunate and like anything for open door, the more markets that they're active and actually active, not just like on paper active, but where they're, they're transacting in volume. The more that that happens and the more that that's divorced from a few concentrated markets, I think the more insulated open door is from these sorts of situations. But yeah, to your point, I think, I think in another really bad down market, anyone who's transacting in real estate is going to do poorly, but especially open door because they're trying to recover.
They're trying to get back on the saddle. They're going to make it out of this current situation, but I don't think they have the capital to get out of two. Right? And so I think it's going to be, it's going to be important to watch how they're navigating this. I'm sure your concerns are part of the reason why open door hasn't begun to meaningfully accelerate purchase volumes because they want to make sure that when they do, they're ready and they have trust and confidence in the data. So yeah, I know you wanted them to acquire more forms, but yeah, I think they should be conservative, just get through this period and hopefully see that on the side, that way, that way, they can get back to where they were.
Anyway, thank you. Appreciate the answers. Hey, RT. You have a question for us. Yes, I do. Thanks for hosting this call. I had a question specifically around Founders Fund with Keith Roboi being really the catalyst for open door and then he expresses a concern with the board of directors. He expresses concern with the move to a wartime CEO, not in those specific words. And being Founders Fund, right, they'd back Founders having the Founders step down. Have you had any updates on how much influence Founders Fund has on the board of directors? And any direction that Keith Roboi may still be giving open door because their advice is kind of priceless at times, especially during moments like this.
Founders Fund doesn't have a board seat anymore. I mean, sorry, Founders Fund never has had a board seat on open door. I think it was through coastal adventures that Keith was on the board when he left the company. And then Kosa gave up the board seat. And so Keith had to step down from his board seat as well. And to what extent Keith has impact on the company is really hard to tell. I think the last thing we heard from him on Twitter was at the end of last year before Kerry took over as CEO. He was involved in some advisory role. At least that's what he said on Twitter. He is not involved in the day to day.
We know that he seems doesn't have any special insight there. So I was just curious if we knew if any of the board of directors that are on the board right now, have ties to Founders Fund. Not like directly from Founders Fund, but if they're Founders Fund friendly. The latest tweet I saw from Keith was almost indirect, but it looked like very direct on open door where he was again pretty bullish on the $20 price. And that was I think about three or four weeks ago. Thank you.
我们知道他似乎在那里没有任何特殊的洞察力。所以我只是好奇我们是否知道现在董事会上的任何董事会成员与创始人基金有关联,不是直接来自创始人基金,而是他们是否友好于创始人基金。我最近在 Keith 的一条推文中看到的几乎是间接的,但在 Open Door 上看起来很明显,他对20美元的价格再次表示看好。我想那是大约三到四个星期以前。谢谢。
Hey, Art. Yeah, I mean, it's a good question. And obviously, Keith has accomplished quite a bit and Founders Fund as well. From what I understand, Eric and Keith still interact and they're still friendly. And Eric has a board seat. Obviously doesn't have the CEO title anymore, but it's still President's marketplace. But yeah, I think this is a tough time for the company and that sort of advice and experience would be, would be priceless, as you said. Thank you. And I think the other board seats that Open Door has with GGV capital and I think it's Excel Ventures. They're not found unfriendly.
Like, I, we don't know what's happening in the board. Nobody tells us. But I don't think they would like push out a founder without them having a saying. It just feels like it was more of a mutual agreement that Carrie should take over CEO. But who knows, we might know in a few. A few years. Any other questions? You have one question from. Oh, sorry. Oh, no, you're good. Yeah, thanks for hosting the space guys. It's always a great resource.
But I think you touched on it lightly, but just to reiterate and make it clear. The 30 year mortgage rates at, you know, it's over 7% now. And I just, I can't imagine a lot of people are selling their homes, especially if they have a lower rate locked in. And, you know, of course, fewer will be able to purchase, you know, at the current rate. And do you forecast the I buyers having difficulty finding quality properties? And is there a possibility that Open Door could run out of homes, per se? If rates continue to rise, assuming they want to sell around 7500 homes a quarter.
Yeah, I think that definitely could happen. I think, you know, we're in a situation where the current expectation for home sale, home sold in 2023 is like 50% lower than previous years, the most recent previous years. I think we're kind of at a standstill with residential real estate right now. And the higher you raise mortgage rates, the less affordable, you know, these homes get. I will say that there are some ways that Open Door can try to have elevated volumes as compared to the rest of the housing industry. And we saw this in the fall of last year after home prices started to collapse and mortgage rates for rising.
是的,我认为这种情况肯定会发生。我认为我们现在处于一种局面,房屋销售的预期在2023年比最近几年要低50%。我认为目前住宅房地产处于停滞状态。而且,如果抬高抵押贷款利率,这些房屋的价格就会变得更加买不起。不过,我要说,Open Door 有一些方法可以提高其销售量,与房地产行业的其他公司相比更具竞争力。我们在去年秋天看到,房价开始下跌,抵押利率上涨后,Open Door 的销售量有所增加。
Open Door began buying smaller homes or cheaper homes, right? Cheaper at least on a year over your basis. So they moved from buying on average $350,000 to buying on average $300,000 homes. And I think on the surface it looks like, okay, they're widening spreads, right? And so they're going to insulate their margins. But on a per square foot basis and on how many bedrooms, how many baths, how many pools, if you look at all those metrics, the homes were cheaper homes, right?
Open Door开始购买更小或更便宜的房屋,对吗?至少在一年的基础上便宜一些。所以他们从平均购买价值35万美元的房屋转向购买平均价值30万美元的房屋。表面上看起来像是他们在扩大利润差,因此他们将保护自己的利润率。但是,如果按每平方英尺、卧室数量、浴室数量、游泳池数量等指标来看,这些房屋实际上是更便宜的房屋。
And I think that kind of goes along with the idea that there's probably the median home price in the United States, or at least what's most commonly, maybe we'll call it the mode, what's most commonly transacted when mortgage rates rise, or a cheaper home, right? Because that's going to be the place that people gravitate towards because that's the home that they can afford, because they've lost buying power. I think that's potentially an avenue where open doors been able to have elevated volumes relative to the rest of the market, certainly in a market by market basis. But yeah, if you get in a situation where mortgage rates are 8%, 10%, and homeowners are like, I have a 3% mortgage rate.
I'm not going to move, right? Those are situations where people just stop moving, right? And so you kind of get into this more desperate situation. I think that would be bad for anyone in the residential real estate industry. You'd be bad for agents, you'd be bad, certainly for open door. And I think it would be really challenging for consumers as well. We have a question here or two questions from the discord. Let's start with the second one. Jacob is asking, why do you think Las Vegas market in particular is performing so poorly? It seems like even the post Q2 cohort is performing below the market. Below other markets.
Do you have an opinion on that, Tyler, on the last thing you guys were keeping? Yeah, I think Las Vegas probably did a head fake. So I think Las Vegas probably had a false bottom in home prices. And so even when open doors started buying fewer homes, the water spreads, Las Vegas just kept going down. I think San Francisco did a similar thing. Just the nadir or the trench of the price valuation was lower than they thought. Which is why in the worst markets, that's the phenomenon that we've seen. Is that even through December in some cases, the margin on these cohorts of homes are still well below average, which means that it's going to take longer for them to dig out of those markets.
I will say Phoenix, it looks like they're at least in their most recent cohorts since like September, they're definitely writing that ship. It's just because they had so many homes at the time that the market crashed. It's just going to take more months for them to get back to normal. Yeah, it's interesting that especially on Twitter Las Vegas has a lot of eyes. Is that landslamp? Yeah.
Well, the good thing is open doors more in more than two markets and more than two states. I think market expansion that they did in the last few years really is helping them out here. And the second question was, the revenue projections for Q1 are between $2.45 billion to $2.6 billion. From the data he's seeing, it seems to be collecting his own data. It seems like revenue has been should be a lot higher.
I guess maybe Thailand can go into what we're seeing for Q1 in terms of revenue or home sold a little bit. But one thing that is important to note, it came up multiple times in this call today, is the $10 billion revenue run rate that they were talking about. I think one important sign that they're sending us here by telling us we will be at that revenue rate by mid 2024 is that we should probably not expect that revenue run rate for H2. It's very likely that we will be waiting below that. And it's all because of the depressed acquisitions that we are seeing.
So, Q1 revenue. Tyler, what are you thinking about Q1 revenue? I'll say since Open Door has been public every single time that they've guided for revenue, it's been conservative. I don't think they've missed on the top line in any material manner once. So, we expect them to almost always be very conservative on their revenue guidance. And that's, I mean, Kerry Wheeler was CFO that entire time. Right? So now she's CEO. I don't think that there's going to be any stylistic changes in the estimates on that account because I really doubt that Eric wasn't charged with that.
I would say the thing that shocked us most from the guide was not the revenue, but was the margin guide. Right? If you back out, you know, negative 360 adjusted, negative 360 million adjusted EBITDA, the negative 5% adjusted gross margin that you get to is a shocking figure relative to the Q4 performance relative to the data we're seeing for Q1. And I think it's, it was under under discussion, the call, no analysts had any follow-up questions for it. I think that's the area of contention where I, I feel like I just, I'm constantly just staring at those numbers trying to make sense of how that could possibly be.
But the revenue, yeah, I mean, it's conservative, but, but not outside the ballpark for for their prior quarters. All right. It's a do one more question and wrap it up for today. We have Javardo.
So, Jannin, this is a good question for us. Hey, hey, Sebastian and, and Tyler, I got a question just very general on the third party marketplace. Could you guys talk about what's the advantage that open their has with the position that they're in and how it would be difficult for a competitor to get into the same space. I mean, the idea that I have for the third party marketplace is that you're getting rid of intermediaries by not having a real turn on the cell set on the by side. We just have open door that with scale, hopefully, amortizes costs among all the transactions that they do.
And then I think the idea that I have is that if you're a seller, they'll help you with the whole repair process and simplify preparing the home for the buyer and on the buyer side. I guess they help with guaranteeing the transaction and making it smooth and hopefully digitizing all the paperwork. Do I have the right idea? Yeah, hey, Javardo. Thanks for the question. I think it sounds like there's maybe two parts of this question. One is what's the unique advantage that open door has in building a third party marketplace relative to peers and then also what's the value proposition for the seller.
So I'll start with the first one. I think what's unique about open door that I think what makes it so that Zillow, for example, couldn't build this is that open door is offering a price for every single one of the homes that are listed on this marketplace. And so no matter what happens, no matter if open door can't aggravate any more offers for these homeowners, they always have an offer in their back pocket, which is worth something.
And I would argue worth something significant, right? Always knowing that you can you can take an offer no matter what I think gives you a lot more leverage in the transaction. So the reason that the Zillows can't build this third party market place is because they exited I buying. And you know, perhaps offer pad could build this as well if they have aspirations to do so.
我认为这在交易中值得一定的重视,对吧?总是知道无论我怎么想,你都可以接受交易,这会给你更多的谈判筹码。所以 Zillows 不能建立第三方市场的原因是因为他们退出了 I Buying。也许 Offer Pad 也有建立这种市场的愿望,他们也可以这样做。
But you certainly need a decent a decent set of or decent scale to make this kind of thing happen. Certainly in the markets that you're operating. And so perhaps offer pad could do this and in some of their larger markets or as they scale themselves. But I think to answer your second part of your question is what's the value prop for the seller.
I mean, open doors third party marketplaces. If you're a homeowner, you send in pictures and information on the home and open door just goes out and gets offers for you, right? Including one from them and open door acts as your realtor.
And you pay 5% but the current model is that open door gives you back 2% so it really only costs 3% normally for the home seller. It's 6 to 5%. So there's there's a lot of value in that. But I think this is this is what home selling should be right like home buying is different home buying is a much more.
I've said this before selling is finance, buying is romance right buying your home can't be broken down into something something as as 2 dimensional is money right and that's that's part of the reason that realtor has said that open door needs them to make their business model work.
You just need more to make the buying experience magical and so just making it all offline. I think we're a few years away from that certainly but but the selling part it's just finance right it's just I want to get as many offers as possible and I'm going to choose the best one or I'm going to be able to sell to the group that I want to.
And open door has all of these eyeballs from home shoppers. It has all of its institutional partners and so it can accumulate all these offers for these for these homeowners which creates a really great value proposition because nothing else exists like it. And it's it's easy. It's hassle free. It's certain because you always know you have an offer.
And I think that's why we're really excited about the third party marketplace if and when it it scales to the to the size that we think it would be. And I would add to that that Zillow is very dependent on realtor's in their business model and on emiluses right.
Zillow had many many rights with emilus providers in the past that tried to pressure them into certain directions and obviously that would probably not go much better if Zillow would try something similar or or if they would try to cut out the agents that are financing the whole company with their add dollars right it's a it's a difficult position to be in as Zillow if you want to push.
If you want to change the system while you're taxing the system currently and how you stay company. It's the classic counter positioning mode right like Hamilton Helmer's counter positioning mode if Zillow tried to compete or tried to create the same product it would be cannibalizing its its golden goose.
And I guess we could go into like more detailed like one thing that I think a lot of people are an estimate is how advanced open doors pricing engineers and I know a lot of people will laugh now and point to the losses that they made last year.
But the important differences if you're pricing for marketplace you don't have to forecast free four months into it in advance and that kind of back out the actual cash price that you can give a seller while you take the risk.
No, you just price the home as if would have been priced right now it would sell right now and that's the price that is on exclusives that the price where the buyers that the buyer see for the third party marketplace and they're enormously good at that and they have a lot of a lot of a priority data that nobody else has because they've inspected millions of homes over the last eight nine years and if they collected more data on that that probably anybody in the US has on on on real estate or residential real estate and that is really worth something and that should result in a bad experience for buyers and sellers in the spirit party marketplace as well.
Unless we have another short burning question I think we can wrap it up for for today. Tyler do you have any closing statements for us?
除非我们有其他简短的问题需要解答,否则我认为今天的讨论可以结束了。Tyler,你有任何结束语吗?
My closing argument yeah I think well one I appreciate you all being here and and your questions. I would say globally this is not the end to 2022 that I think any of us who are constructive on open door we're hoping for. This housing dislocation the downturn hurt it was it was a deep cut and I think a lot of open doors original thesis has been dented in and I think there's reason to question what's going on right and they've lost a lot of leadership at the top there's been shuffling in the organization there's been layoffs and in the macro situation is is tough to for anyone in the in technology but particularly residential real estate space all that said the metrics that we're seeing every day on data door show us that the company is getting better week on week and they have been since mid November and so that I mean margins margins are improving.
It seems like even embedded margins of their of their q2 cohort inventory around the rise as well either because they've sold off the worst of them or because there has been a little bit of HPA early in 2023. But either way it seems like they're improving and and that they're going to get through this with the current cash position they have and certainly all the comments by management suggests that they they believe that they are going to get through this. I don't know what that means for the stock price obviously you know that's that's not my job and and I wish I could do that but I but I can't but.
But it seems like currently today open doors still trading like a company that's not going to make it and Sebastian and I feel otherwise and it's difficult to tread that line especially publicly because we want to be as honest as possible about the data we want to be honest about when we're disappointed and when we're excited but hopefully hopefully you can kind of see that. At the very least we're trying to be honest about it and we are we are doing the best we can to make sure that the data that we're presenting are as accurate as possible but we do believe in this company and and the long term the long term opportunity that they're trying to meet in residential real estate which is a very very broken industry.
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