Hello and welcome to a new episode of the Data Door Front Porch Podcast. We have a lot of exciting news today. We're going to talk and walk you through the Zillow Open Door partnership. It just launched today. We're going to walk you through the flow. We're going to comment what we think the thing will work.
大家好,欢迎来到全新的《Data Door Front Porch Podcast》节目。今天有很多令人兴奋的消息。我们将会谈论并向您介绍Zillow Open Door合作伙伴关系。它今天刚刚启动。我们将向您展示整个流程,并评论我们认为这个项目会起作用的方面。
We're going to talk about mortgage rates spiking and what that might mean for demand in the next few weeks. We also are going to talk about marketing news from Open Door Open Door is ramping up their marketing nationwide and have some really cool campaigns as well as our expectations for earnings next week. Yeah, that's it. Let's get started, Tyler.
We heard today that Zillow finally is rolling out the Open Door partnership in Atlanta and Rally. Tell us more about that. Yeah, so Zillow announced earnings today after the close and basically what they revealed is that the long awaited Open Door Zillow partnership is now live. We haven't gotten too many details about it and unfortunately no analysts ask any follow-up questions during the conference call. But what we do know is that Zillow launched the partnership with Open Door in two big markets. So markets Atlanta and Rally, which are Open Door's number two and number 15 largest markets by volume as of right now.
今天我们听说 Zillow 终于在亚特兰大和拉力推出了开放合作伙伴计划。可以告诉我们更多相关信息吗?是的,今天收盘后 Zillow 公布了财报,他们透露这个令人期待已久的开放房门合作计划现在已经上线了。目前我们还没有得到太多详细信息,不幸的是在电话会议期间没有分析师提出任何后续问题。但我们所知道的是,Zillow 与 Open Door 合作在两个大市场推出了该项目,这两个市场分别是 Open Door 目前规模排名第二和第十五大的亚特兰大和拉力市。
And so the exciting thing about this is not only do we get this announced but we also got sort of the user experience, so the customer experience when they enter into Zillow's funnel and end up moving over to Open Door's website. And I think it's important to think about it this way, Zillow is trying to gain more seller solutions, right? And so when a homeowner comes to Zillow to sell their home, Zillow doesn't currently have a lot of options because guess what, they exit it I buying in 2021. But by partnering with Open Door when homeowners come to Zillow to sell their home now, Zillow can give them a variety of options including getting a cash offer from Open Door today. And so that partnership is really exciting because as you can imagine it really broadens Open Door's funnel for prospective clients and acquisitions. And we've been really waiting on that because we continue to believe that Open Door ramping acquisitions or home acquisitions is the most important part of their thesis as we move farther into 2023.
Yeah, before we jump into how the experience looks like, we have a recording of the experience and can work for step by step, you're already drinking early today. That's great. I guess it's late for you. I just wanted to be a double click on the two markets at Lenta and Rally. What we see is from Open Door's perspectives, they have a very different margin profile right now in their inventory in those two markets. I think Atlanta is super healthy. Rally is not terrible, but it's on the low end of the margin spectrum. They're barely preftal on the embedded margin on their listing margins right now.
We don't know how many customers will go for this. We don't know how much Open Door will increase purchases for this, but it's quite interesting that they took two markets. They didn't take the two strongest markets in margins, just two very different markets, right? Yeah. Yeah, I think that brings up two points. One is we can see an immediate boost in margins for Open Door just because of the sheer volume that Atlanta has as a baseline, right? Open Door's operational capacity in Atlanta is so much that they could probably absorb a three to four X volume in that market alone with the Zillow partnership and still operate well, right? That's really exciting because they sort of picked the market where they dominate, right? Atlanta is far and away.
我们不知道有多少客户会接受这项服务。我们也不知道Open Door将会为此增加多少销售额,但他们选择了两个市场还是非常有意思的。他们并没有选择利润最高的两个市场,而是选择了两个非常不同的市场,对吧?是的。我认为这提出了两个问题。一是我们可以看到Open Door的利润会立即增加,因为亚特兰大市作为基准已经有了相当大的交易量。 Open Door在亚特兰大的业务能力是如此之强,他们可能会吸收三到四倍的交易量并且仍然可以正常运营,对吧?这真是令人兴奋的,因为他们在自己能够控制的市场中选择了支配市场。
Open Door's best market. I don't necessarily mean always has the highest margin or always has the highest number of homes, but just across the board is their blue chip margin market, right? Bees in the top three for volume, always in the top three for margin, they just crush it there. Being able to broaden the funnel there means even more operational excellence in their core market, which is really exciting. But Raleigh is interesting because, like you said, they haven't been performing very well in Raleigh. It's probably a 25% tile by margin market for them. What's exciting about that for me at least is you could really turn things around quickly with regard to listing margin or embedded margin in a place like Raleigh if the Zillow faucet begins to turn on and you start getting all these new homes acquired at really good prices because then those homes can be realisted with pretty fat spread attached to it. That's exciting.
Open Door的最佳市场。我并不是指它总是有最高的利润或总是有最多的房屋,而是它在所有方面都是他们的优质市场,对吧?在交易量前三中,利润总是前三的,他们在那里表现出色。能够在那里扩大漏斗意味着在他们的核心市场上更多的运营卓越,这真的很令人兴奋。但是,Raleigh很有趣,因为像你所说的,他们在Raleigh的表现并不好。对于他们而言,这可能是一个25%的利润市场。对于我来说,令人兴奋的是,如果Zillow的水龙头开始开放,并开始以真正优惠的价格收购所有这些新房屋,那么在像Raleigh这样的地方,您可以快速改变上市利润或嵌入式利润,因为那些房屋可以重新列出,附加着相当大的差价。这是令人兴奋的。
But the other thing that's important to say before we dive into the UX is to remember that Zillow is highly incentivized for this project and partnership to go well. Not just from a payment perspective, but from a we need Open Door to do well for this deal to make sense perspective.
So Zillow is being paid basically referral fee to Open Door when it sends home owners to Open Door's website through this integration. But also, there are performance milestones where Zillow is awarded warrants of Open Door equity because of this relationship. And those warrants basically begin at $15 a share for Open Door. I don't know if you've checked Open Door's stock price recently, but it's like about $2 a share. So that's a ways to go. And so for this deal to make sense for Open Door for it to be a smart move by CEO Rich Barton, Open Door has to both do well and Zillow has to both do well.
But either way, it's a win-win for Open Door because they're getting huge funnel whether or not the partnership manifest where their stock price goes up. So I'm excited about it either way, but just being able to see that they finally turned it on was big news for today.
What I also love is the emphasis on this being a long term partnership. So they might be collecting those warrants and this equity and just to emphasize the minimum price on the equity is $15. And I think at the time when this deal was announced and published, the stock price was already at like six or $5. I have to be afraid on this because I will link it in the show notes. So if anybody wants to dive into that and link it to SEC filings as well.
But that means they already were pretty confident that the time when the stock price was depressed, now they have to be even more confident. And they assume this was part of the negotiation, right?
They're not just going to get cash, no, they believe that the company will be worth something that's why they get equity. And they announced this is like a five year deal or something. It's a long term deal. They're not trying this out and giving up. They will get to work on making sure this makes sense for both companies in the next five years.
All right. Let's take a look at how the funnel action looks like. We have recording here of the user experience. I hope you can see that maybe starting at the beginning.
好的,让我们来看看漏斗操作是什么样子的。我们有用户体验的录音。希望你会看到从一开始就开始。
If you are looking up your own home address on Zillow, you will see a box on the public page, but also if you add it to your address to use Zillow account, you will see this as well. A new box saying you can get a cash offer for this home. And there's an estimated market value attached to it, which is still the estimate. It's the Zillow estimate. It's not what opener things to preliminary also will be. It's what the expectations types with the estimate, right?
You can click on this button and you get immediately into the very similar experience that we have on the open door page. You get a lot of questions about your home. What was quite interesting is on this page, you need to fill out a lot of information about your home, like how many bedrooms you have, how many, when was the home built. And all this information is on the Zillow public page, but it's kind of weird that you have to enter this. And I think in actual open doors, slow on open doors website, this is all pre-thought, the data that they have.
So it's kind of maybe an additional hurdle on purpose or an, so you see me entering all this data that I copied over from Zillow's actual public page. And after you fill out all this data, which will take me a while in the video, who know about three fourths bathrooms, otherwise, have you ever heard of that before? No, I have no idea what they're doing. Important for the evaluation, it seems, I guess.
A lot of questions here. And I guess there's a lot of questions here that we'll just call it from the experience. We have to enter our name and our phone number here. Obviously, I just used a generic Atlanta address here. This is not my name and not my phone number. Please don't call me. And we get a little bit of a disclosure of all the companies that Zillow's affiliated with.
And after that, we see. We get to a screen that takes a little bit of time. I guess this is where Zillow talks to OpenNose API and gets a preline merely offer based on the data that was input. And there it is.
We get to an offer page with two parts to it. One is sell of an agent, which shows Zillow's testament. I think it was the same thing as in the beginning confirm. Actually, this one is higher than in the beginning. Maybe just as actually all is coming from OpenNose. This is probably a mixed result of what the most accurate number of what the homes were right now. And the first option is selling with a part of the agent.
That means if you select this, your offer would go to probably a premier agent that is working with you to list the home, you can see you schedule a call with an agent to refine your home value and create a selling plan. Then you decide to sell on the sale price and miss your home. And then the next step, obviously, we know how home probably works. You just select the winning offer. There's nothing in between no like showing or anything. That's kind of weird here. But like you start like a winning offer and then you close and get paid.
It's also quite honest about the benefits and things to consider with traditional seller, which is quite interesting. And then we see the open door offer, the preliminary offer. It is quite transparent about the, let me go back here. It is transparent about the fee, the 5% fee that you're paying to open door. And the closing costs and your estimated cash per se. It also has some details about how the process works, the digital work through and actually getting paid after that. And I'll give you the benefits, get an all cash offer within days, keep staging in open houses, choose a closing date and move. They call out that is less hands on mostly digital experience, which is interesting wording for this as well.
If you now decide to go with the open door offer, you click on continue to open door where you have to enter your email address and you get a link to open door and you get into the default open door sell experience. You're lending an open door website, you're locked in there. What's interesting is the buyer services that open door offers, those are not available in this, if you're going through this one. So the assumption is, whoever, whatever customer is open door requires here, they are not allowed to upsell them on other services that sell my offer as well. It's only for selling services, likely, also not for third parties, selling experiences. Those are only rolled out in Texas right now, so we don't really know how it will behave.
But it's very likely that Zilla wants customers to open door to then sell on their exclusive market place, right? Yeah, just want to dovetail off that point because the absolute best version of this partnership is that Zilla sends leads to open door which then go to open doors, their party marketplace. And open door has an offer but also has all these offers from institutions and prospective home buyers that open door links to those sellers. That is the best version of this partnership, a better scenario for open door would just be if they can make that third party marketplace sing by themselves.
But I would say, let's say we're 18 months from now and the third party marketplace is still only 5% of open doors business. I think if I were in the war room trying to decide what next steps would be, I would really want to integrate the third party experience with Zilla to try to make that happen. When I used to write about open door big long essays about strategy and the opportunity, I said that it didn't really make sense for open door and Zilla to team up, but that is the one place where the puzzle pieces fit perfectly, right? Because if all of these 200 million eyeballs that come to Zilla's website every month, all those sellers that are in that population, if those can be sent over to open door's third party marketplace, that is the best real estate model in existence. It would be a tighten.
Yeah, I wonder what's the little things about that? I guess it eats into Zilla's core business, which is showing MLS data, right? My assumption is all customers that are coming through this funnel will only get the first party experience, not even the buy with open door experience. One thing we saw in the press release is that these customers going to open door might even use Zilla's closing services. So there might even be limitations in the long term of how tight an escrow can be attached to this from open door's perspective. I think Zilla will make sure that this is beneficial to their users' experiences and not make sure to open those users' experiences. So we'll be interesting.
How does it both? If there will be an expansion of services that they included from open door site. One interesting thing is when I went for this flow the first time, I actually got a text message from Zilla. So immediately there's a Zilla consulted that contacts you even if you haven't finished the flow. And I assume this is an open, this is a Zilla employee that makes sure you're actually converting for this flow. So this is what will this sell a consult and recommend? There are two options. Will they recommend the open door option or will they recommend the premier agent?
I think from Zilla's perspective, if you're talking to a Zilla employee, it actually makes sense to recommend an open door option. Because if you think about it, Zilla only gets paid if the sell actually converts and there's a lot of drop off points. If they connect you to Zilla Premiere Partner, right?
You could drop off at the end when you already had 15 showings and you just don't want to do this anymore and you put your own mouth market or you could just never want to talk to the person you could connect it to. There's a lot less risk and the experience is a lot shorter if they sent you to open door. I think it's kind of a conversation what actually fits the seller, but it's really interesting that there's this hands-on sales experience.
I even got immediately a call like an hour later from Zilla's seller. I'm going to consult it. I didn't take the call. It would have been interesting to hear what they were trying to pitch, but it was. Paul and I messed with them a little bit and got down the road and kind of been like, I'm really between these two options.
What do you think about open door? Just to see what they're trying to say. Maybe you can do this for next episode. It was still 5 a.m. for me. I was like, I'm not going to talk to somebody from Zilla right now. I've had 10 people in our discord. We'll do it by tomorrow. Yeah. It would be interesting to see what they say.
Yeah. Pretty exciting news. I didn't expect it to be that friendly already or to launch executive on those running school days. So I'm pretty happy with that. Hopefully we get some more details around openness side of things next week. Hopefully some of those analysts will actually ask questions about it to clarify.
I think the one final point I want to make about that before we move on is I think the Zilla open door partnership was announced prior to open door announcing their plans for this third party marketplace. But that doesn't, I mean, obviously they've been thinking about this third party marketplace for a long time.
So that doesn't mean that behind closed doors open door and Zilla didn't come to an agreement regarding the third party marketplace. But I would say the important thing to remember is that the economics of the third party sale for open door being the middle man in the transaction mean that open door can pay higher, higher, you know, referral fees and still end up more profitable in a transaction using less of their leverage in debt in their balance sheet and still grow their third party marketplace, profitably.
所以这并不意味着在门闭着的情况下,Open Door和Zilla没有就第三方市场达成协议。但我认为需要记住的重要事情是,Open Door 在作为交易中间人的第三方销售的经济学意义上,意味着他们可以付更高的介绍费,同时使用较少的债务杠杆在资产负债表上,仍然能够获得更多的利润,并有利可图地增长他们的第三方市场。
And so I would be, I'd be pretty disappointed if there wasn't a long term plan for open door to include the third party marketplace because, truthfully, it's a better customer experience too, right? Like right now you look at open doors offers on homes and they're having to offer, you know, 10% less than maybe what the zest of it says because there's so much volatility which we'll talk about in a little bit.
And so they need to make sure that they're, you know, they're buying these homes at good spreads. But in a situation where open doors the middle man, they can connect and just take their normal fee. And so there's a lot more options for the customer. It's just as fast and ideally, you know, the customers actually able to pocket a little bit more cash in that situation. More options is always good for the customer, right?
And that's what I think we should be fighting for in residential real estate. Being able to integrate third party marketplace in the Zillow deal is must be like the long-term goal of this product. Yeah, I would definitely not drool it out. Especially if you look at markets, rural markets where there's just not that many cash offers etc.
Like in or where you open door can make a confident offer, we talk or we heard about this before like how can open door go truly nationwide in every single community, not just the big markets that they're in right now. And if you're party marketplaces, they're waiting to go. And if they have to demand and the supply, then I don't see why Zillow would say no to this additional way of monetizing traffic, right?
And opting about free is down the line. It's probably not something that will happen this year or next year. But as if open door gets traction with the third party marketplace, it would be smart for Zillow to go in under this. So to not miss relevancy. I agree. That's far in the future where we talk about Zillow, you lose cut and relevancy to open door if ever, right?
All right, this was a very exciting topic, positive topic. Let's go to something that is a bit more anxiety producing. We saw mortgage 30 year mortgage rates reach and you hide today for this year to 6.75 percent. This is from just two weeks ago where we were at 5.99 percent. This is a major jump after the CPI print this week and could be devastating to demand. Nobody really knows.
I mean, there's a lot of seasonality as well. But like, what could this mean for open door sales or their position pays going forward?
我是说,这也有很多季节性的因素。但是,这对于开放式销售或他们未来的职位薪酬意味着什么呢?
Yeah, so I have to be honest. I know that high mortgage rates doesn't sound like a good thing, but I almost welcome it in the situation. We talked a little bit about this before.
是的,说实话,我知道高房贷利率听起来不像是好事,但在这种情况下我几乎欢迎它。我们之前谈过这个话题。
We started the show, but what we've seen in the data is that open door is nearing record highs for sales volume. Or they're heading into record volumes for sales, record volumes for sales. At the same time, they're also making record lows for home acquisitions.
There's massive disparity between how many homes are selling, how many homes are buying. I'll tell you this. Open doors currently today, peak volume for the pending pipeline of home sales. I've checked the past few days and it continues to rise.
But that's one point. But the reason that I say that I'm a little bit more optimistic or welcoming of this is the fact that open doors purchase volumes are so low, they're not currently sitting on any recently held inventory.
The minimal number of homes that they've recently bought are being sold off very quickly. And so they're still working on selling through some of that old inventory, which they're never going to profit on any ways and they've already written down.
And so there are a few takeaways from this. One, perhaps open door is or was waiting to acquire homes because of all this expected volatility in early 2023.
And it might create an opportunity where open door can begin acquiring homes at lower prices that are not artificially low. They actually are low and according to value because of these recent increases in mortgage rates, that wouldn't be the worst thing, especially with probably four to five more months this year of having expected seasonal HPA boosts before we head into the winter months and open door needs to acquire homes.
Basically over the next four to six weeks otherwise volumes are going to suffer significantly in Q3 and Q4.
基本上,在接下来的四到六个星期里,如果不这样做,第三季度和第四季度的销售量将会显著下降。
Yeah, what worries me here is really the speed again of this climbing. It started like end of last week. We probably won't see pending nothing reflected pending data for another two or three weeks. We can't even really see in the amount data yet that like nobody knows how the next four weeks in housing, we could get to a total stop like we did last October or June. That's it's a similar spike not as crazy as in June because that was totally surprising but definitely in October.
It's really hard to tell where things are going yet. Unfortunately, again, I'm very excited in real estate. Mortgage rates are going down below 6%, we reach 5, we'll be a really good year and then we'll start CPI print. We just go a real punch in stomach again.
I think what it says is really really credit to open door for being patient, right? Really risk off. This is really what it means to be risk off even if they saw the first few signs.
We don't have to purchase data yet for what happened in the last three weeks but likely they didn't go crazy. They didn't just drop their spreads based on what they only listings that we have seen from January.
They didn't just drop their spreads and try to acquire as much as they can. They went slow. Otherwise, this could have been deadly again. Yeah. Spreads are either at the level or higher month on months every month over the past 6 months.
I would say if that's what open door is doing, then Bravo to them. I think there's a part of me that's like, open door doesn't have a great track record of predicting macro, especially as it pertains to mortgage rates.
This seems like a particularly difficult thing to forecast but either way being risk off is working in their favor in the situation. I hope as someone who plans to buy a home in the next four to five months that mortgage rates come back down so that there's more affordability. We've said the data so far are not showing any deviation, really just continuation of the trend.
But we're going to keep on track and keep watching it in case it changes. I'm looking forward to your documentary about how you buy a home with open door next year months.
I'm hoping to be sponsored by Open Door and so that they waive the 5% fee. It's going to be my first influencer gig so I'm pretty excited about applying for it. We'll see.
Yeah, talking about influences. That's a great segue, right? We've seen open door really ramp up their marketing. What does that mean?
是的,说起影响力。这是一个很好的过渡,对吧?我们看到“开门红”真的在加强他们的营销。这意味着什么?
What does that mean? Instagram influences, they started doing a lot of ads with influences, paid marketing on Instagram with influencers. We saw a little bit of that on TikTok last year which was kind of weird but probably some experimenting.
They're really focusing on those unexpected events that might consider where someone might consider taking a cash offer from a seller and really doubling down on that great execution my opinion. People are already seeing this on TV.
The last one that was, oh, there's actually two. Let's start with the basketball ad. I'm not a basketball guy. I'm not a simple guy either so I have no idea what's happening here. From my understanding, last week there was drafting for basketball players and the team that opened the response and got the really important player and they forgot his name. Do you know his name? Alan Iverson. Are you talking about the Alan Iverson reference with moving versus practice? Are you talking about which, are you talking about Kyrie Herving was traded? Yes, they won the player to go to the Sons. So they were big green. They started sponsoring the Sons and now the Sons got an important player which will get more eyeballs which probably is a good deal for their sponsorship they got which is really great.
The other one is the ad that they made that they released that day after which was really great timing where they made a best for reference that you just mentioned. You talk us through that you seem to know more about best fold in music. I mean, it was an interesting commercial and I think I think you're right. I think Kyrie Herving to the Sons will bring more eyeballs because he's a superstar player. He's also very controversial like he believes the earth is flat for example. Oh this guy oh no. Yeah. Oh he says fun. What do you mean either way it draws more attention.
I don't care about the Sons basketball team but more attention on kind of the sponsors and the game means more eyeballs to open door and that's probably good. Yeah, and after the drafts they had to see really great 15 seconds ad for a first sensing like a basketball interview from the past that everybody knows, who has no idea about basketball. When they talk about all this place and they got traded need to move now where would they go who helps them move its open door. It went a little bit viral not totally viral but reasonably viral for open door it's a really good start and really timely production right. I really like that.
And the last one, the Super Bowl act, my favorite, your favorite. So talk us for the what they're open to do with their Super Bowl act. Yeah, so open door made a billboard which sounds like the most pedestrian unimaginative marketing campaign. They put the billboard in near the stadium in Arizona for the Super Bowl and what they did with the billboard was really interesting. They converted the entire billboard into like a four sale sign or sold by sign that you might see in someone's yard.
So they just blew that up and made it this massive sign that said open door real estate's biggest game changer. And so when you look at it, I don't think it's ever been done before anything like that but it also just gets people talking. It's a clever ad and they probably didn't have to spend too much money on it. Certainly not the $10 million at cost for 30 second commercial on Super Bowl broadcast. So I was happy to see that clever use of marketing funds. And I think it was placed on the highway that you need to take to get from the airport on the day to the stadium, which is yeah, it's a great idea. I love scrappy ads and we should see more than that. Hopefully.
所以他们只是把它炸了,制作了一个巨大的标志,上面写着"Open Door Real Estate 的最大变革者"。所以当你看到它时,我觉得以前从来没有做过这样的事情,但它真的让人们谈论起来。这是一个巧妙的广告,他们可能并不需要花太多的钱。当然不是在超级碗广播中花费1000万美元的30秒广告费用。所以我很高兴看到这种巧妙地使用营销资金的方法。我想它是放置在从机场到球场的必经之路上的,这是一个伟大的想法。我喜欢敏捷的广告,希望我们能看到更多这样的广告。
Yeah. There's a really interesting podcast that I recommend with the new VP of marketing that joined a year ago, I think, and he did a lot of or his team did a lot of planning of this new ads. And I hope we will see more of that now that it actually makes sense for me to do ads again because they hopefully will acquire more homes.
All right, last topic. Next week, first day, it's finally time for open doors earnings school on February 23. First dimension is we will do Twitter spaces life A may again after the earnings. We don't know specific data time yet. Make sure to follow us on Twitter to not miss that. It's always a great time to talk to everybody and chat for the earnings. And second, you tie their really great article with all time list Q4 estimates as well as a Q1 sneak peak on data.io that everybody should read.
Tell us what you expect from next week's earnings school. Yeah, so I had four big expectations for open doors earnings call. I published this yesterday, this morning, this morning and wrote it the day before. But number one was the Zillow open door integration. So as expecting to get some news in the open door Zillow integration, as fate would have it, Zillow reported earnings today and they talked about the Zillow open door integration.
But I still think hearing open doors perspective on it, how it's going, what the cadence of new market launches is going to look like and ideally what the unit economics are for that type of partnership. Single most important question there, which if you're an analyst and you're listening to this, please ask if there's ever going to be a third party integration with this partnership because that is a critical element and it might be how now President Eric Wu plans to get to the almost impossible, seeming 30% of total transactions for the third party marketplace because that could do it.
Number two, the pace of third party marketplace scaling still think that this is the most important product line for open door right now because of the unit economics. Third party marketplace is only active in Texas right now and not even in all of open doors Texas markets. And so hearing them comment on what the pace of that scale is going to be and how many transactions are going to funnel into that marketplace as we move forward. Again, they said 30% of transactions by the end of 2023 were currently less than 1%. So how are we going to make that jump within a year for a product that's never existed that consumers don't know anything about? I'm not sure, but any insight on that I think would be really helpful.
Number three, when is open door going to begin acquiring more homes and are they going to begin acquiring more homes because currently they're at the lowest volume member which we've hammered hammered on about for a while. I still think that for open door to for me to get more constructive on the open door thesis as we move farther into 2023, open door has to acquire more homes because if they don't they can't pay fixed costs and they can't they can't sell homes. And so they're at the point now where they have fewer homes listed then they're going to sell in the quarter.
And so I think I think that's an important thing to internalize and I'm talking about Q1 right. It's an important thing to internalize because the number of homes listed is a forward indicator for sales right. And so if they have fewer homes listed right now and homes that they're going to sell in the quarter that means that sales are going to deteriorate from here on out at least until they acquire more homes and so this is the critical piece of open doors business model for their first party business.
And then last but not least we talked about doing some detective work in our discord about the tax proper acquisition which is a YC company that opened or we thought open door acquired recently because it helps with the collection of property taxes and home vulnerabilities and there was a job listing about it opened or announced over the past week that they did in fact acquire it. And so it'd be great to hear how they plan to integrate that product suite particularly in their enterprise product. And so any any color this is Sebastian's favorite thing any color that we can get about open doors enterprise product would make him very happy and that makes me happy as his partner. So we need to make that last.
That's it. I got one last point. It would be great to hear about the buy with open door action. So again, this court detective work we saw some LinkedIn listings for where open doors hiring tour assistance for buy with open door.
The first post was for five new markets the next one was for free new markets and it was mentioned that those are launching shortly. That means open or is launching by with open door or BOW in eight new markets going to a total of 27 which is a pretty crazy investment if you ask me for what position they're in right now.
That should mean they're doing pretty well with it or they expect this investment to pay off. I would be lost for them to talk about this. The only way the only thing they mentioned is in their investor presentation in Q1 2022. They broke out that this is in another service that they expect to attach that has like a contribution margin of like seven hundred five hundred dollars which is like two percent the home prices back then when it's mature.
Where are we that how many homes are they selling? I think they announced as well that they had like a one billion dollar GMV run rate Q2 last year. Are we at two billion right now where we can we break this out in the financials. Thing with open rent apprists. One more breaking out on how other business lancers doing if they're ready for that would be really great that would give us a lot more insight on how open or is doing with things that are not first part of sales. Since we cannot observe those there's not much we can track with the other services.
So we have rely on data from open door. Yeah, I think we should do a podcast about by with open door in the future. Yeah, maybe not during earnings but after that I think just the economics of that is something that are really important to spell out. Yeah, power buyers. We should definitely do that and maybe even get Mike Delvri, donor podcast who invented the term power buyer. He seems to be very knowledgeable about that. Let's see.
所以我们必须依靠来自开放门户的数据。是的,我认为我们应该在未来的播客中与开放门户合作。也许不是在收益报告期间,但在那之后,我认为这件事的经济学意义是非常重要的,值得强调。是的,那些强大的买家们。我们一定要做这件事,甚至可能会让 Mike Delvri 参加我们的播客,他发明了"强大的买家"这个词。他似乎对这个领域非常了解。让我们看看。
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Yep. How accurate. I think we are within 5% for all of the core KPIs that we estimate for the entire year. So our estimates have come in within 5% of actual the entire year. And then the other thing that I think is really fascinating is open door always gives guidance during their earnings call.
And usually at the time that open door gives guidance for the next quarter, we've already had estimates for that quarter for about two to four weeks. And I think what's most interesting about that is our estimates two to four weeks before the earnings call are more accurate than or have been more accurate than open doors own guidance.
Which is kind of doesn't make a lot of sense, right? But most of the time when open door provides guidance for the quarter, Sebastian and I look at each other like not even close. It's not even close to what they're actually going to do based on the data that we see.
So I think real estate data, our public, if you know where to look and you obsess a little bit over it and we've done that. And so I think we've created a model with everyone's support and it's a small community, but it's a strong one. And I think we've really created a product that people love and we're committed to continue improving it and strengthening it.
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So we can continue doing this interviews. And I said, we're not doing any interviews yet. We continue doing this podcast and hopefully get some interviews. And yeah, I think that's it for this week. We're going to see you next week in a live Twitter spaces and then probably do another podcast the week after summarizing earnings.