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Good day and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Opendoor Fourth Quarter 2022 Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speakers’ presentation, there will be a question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions]
Please be advised that today’s conference is being recorded. I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, Elise Wang, 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 statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking, including, but not limited to, statements regarding Opendoor 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 Factors section of Opendoor’s most recent annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022, as updated by our periodic report filed after that 10-K.
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 Opendoor 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-GAAP financial measures. The company believes these non-GAAP 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-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP metric, please see our website at investor.opendoor.com.
I will now turn the call over to Carrie Wheeler, Chief Executive Officer of Opendoor.
Good afternoon. Also on the call with me today is Christy Schwartz, our Interim Chief Financial Officer; and Dod Fraser, President of Capital Markets and our Enterprise Business. I am looking forward to speaking with you today, not only because it’s my first earnings call as CEO, but because of our clarity as to the path ahead, which I believe will make Opendoor stronger than before.
While navigating a major housing cycle has not been easy, we have never lost sight of our vision. We are building a managed marketplace for residential real estate that will enable consumers to buy, sell and move at the tap of a 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 are 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 create the certainty and convenience of our cash offer that they cannot get anywhere else. Even in this moment of high spreads, we are able to convert over 10% of resellers and earn an NPS of nearly 80.
We stand alone in what we are able to offer consumers today. Given our current coverage of almost 30% of all real estate transactions in the U.S. today between our buy box and the markets we are 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 free cash flow and we are making solid progress. As of year-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 we will be behind it shortly.
The homes we have acquired since the reset are outperforming our expectations and are on track to deliver contribution margins in line with our 4% to 6% annual margin target once they are fully sold.
However, we have lowered our acquisition volumes via higher spreads in our offers, coupled with lower marketing spend. 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 will continue to do so as we see more consistent positive macro sign. Ultimately, we would expect lower spreads to translate into higher acquisition volumes.
In the meantime, we are 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 net 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 residential real estate. First is to enable more sellers to choose Opendoor. No matter the macro backdrop, sellers value the certainty and simplicity that an Opendoor offer provides. This year, we are focused on diversifying our demand funnel so that more home sellers start the journey with Opendoor.
The recent launch of our Zillow partnership is one key example set to substantially increase our reach in a scalable and efficient way. We are also expanding our list of certainty product, which gives sellers the option of listening on the MLS, while retaining the certainty of an Opendoor offer that they can take at any time.
Second is to 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 tech platform and infrastructure to enhance productivity and reduce fixed expenses. We are going after at least 100 basis points of margin improvement from all these initiatives by year-end, the full impact of which we expect to realize in 2024. I will be disappointed if we don’t do better than that.
And finally, we are building exclusives, our third-party product offering that will be critical to creating a managed marketplace. This will position Opendoor to have a mix of on- and off-balance sheet transaction volumes to enable capital efficient market share gain for years to come.
We plan to scale this product in three phases; first, we are focused on perfecting the consumer experience; second, we will build liquidity and network effects in an individual market; and third, we will refine our playbook and scale to all markets.
Given our highly focused investment approach this year, we expect to be in Phase 1 and 2 for 2023, meaning we will go deep in selected markets to build liquidity and selection that’s required for a great user experience.
While our ambitions remain significant long-term, we are realigning our near-term goal to 30% of transactions in our marketplace by the end of the year in those markets where we have launched exclusive.
As we look ahead, we are energized about our future. We have 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 are more convinced that the current process of buying and selling a home is broken and that Opendoor is in a position like no other to continue to transform the status quo and be the category winner that we have always envisioned.
With that, I will pass the call over to Christy to discuss our financial highlights.
Thanks, Carrie. Our fourth quarter results reflect actions taken since Q2 to navigate changes in the housing market. 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 midyear during a time of significant market uncertainty.
However, we ended the full year with $15.6 billion in revenue, which was 94% higher than 2021. This growth was driven by our strong first half performance. We purchased 3,427 homes in the fourth quarter, down 64% versus the prior year. For the full year, we acquired 34,962 homes, down 5% versus 2021.
Our gross 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 spreads still enables us to create attractive cohorts in a 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 of $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 equivalents 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 discipline, 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 Fed’s actions will continue to dictate the outlook for housing. That said, as Carrie mentioned, we have started to see some early signs of housing stabilization, which has in turn allowed us to reduce spreads 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 billion to $2.65 billion and adjusted EBITDA loss to be between $350 million and $370 million. Adjusted OpEx, 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 Opendoor. 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 questions.
Thank you. [Operator Instructions] Our first question comes from the line of Nick Jones with JMP Securities. Your line is now open.
Great. Thank you for taking the question. If I could ask two. First, just around kind of negative unit margins. When we think about the full year, it sounds like maybe the first half will still be negative and then improve in the back half, is that the right way to think about it? And then I have a follow-up.
Hey. I will return it over to Christy. The new voice on our call today. Just by way of background, Christy’s been with Opendoor for six years. She’s our Chief Accounting Officer and has very capably accepted to be Interim CFO role. So I will hand over to you, Christy.
Hi, Nick. Happy to take the question. We expect to return to 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 have added some transparency on the margins of each book into our shareholder letter.
We have been very focused on selling our old book as expeditiously as possible, while also preserving margins and we expect 85% to be pulled through or in contract by the end of Q1. As soon as we cycle through the Q2 offer cohort, raise new book inventory and we feel really good about those margins.
The new book of inventory delivered 9.7% contribution margin in Q4 and we expect it to perform in line with our target of 4% to 6% contribution margin once fully flow through. So as such, we expect to return to positive unit margins by the second half as the mix of inventory we are selling 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 mean I will take that, Nick. It’s Carrie. I mean it’s really across the entirety of our business. It will show up a little bit in the CM line, but it will also show up in our variable SG&A in our fixed OpEx structure. It’s really a host of initiatives designed to improve margins, reduce cost, increase operating efficiency, what have you. So it will show up across the Board.
Great. Thank you both.
Okay.
Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Jay McCanless with Wedbush. Your line is now open.
Hey. Thanks for taking my questions. I guess the first one, could you talk again, I missed what you were saying about the 100 bps, I guess, of cost reductions by 24% from structural efficiencies and cost savings. Could you break that out, please?
Yeah. I am happy too. It’s Carrie again. We been here today in a moment where we have lower volumes in the system, it is a perfect opportunity for us, frankly, to go off to a lot of basis points we have in the system and just be more efficient. We have 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 saving are going to come -- as I just said to Nick across a whole host of areas. Some of it will show up in the contribution margin line, i.e., in the unit line, some of them show up in our variable SG&A, just in the efficiency of our operators, our home ops team, market ops, it will show up also with lower fixed OpEx over time as you reduce some of our direct spend.
Those are initiatives that we are going after through the course of 2023. The full impact of them, we don’t expect to realize though until 2024 and that’s where the 100 basis points will show up next year.
Okay. And then, I guess, the second question, 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 are going to be taking down facility capacity in your credit facilities this year is running at kind of that slower 3,000 to 5,000 pace, what we should expect over the next four quarters?
Yeah. I will take the first part of the question, just comment a little bit about where we are pacing right now in terms of acquisitions and how it’s showing up. And then I will turn it over to Dod to talk through how we are thinking about capital structure and for things in light of where we are pacing the volume.
The first part of your question is two components to volumes right now. One is what’s going on in the market and the second is what’s going on with our spread. And on the market side, sellers are on the sidelines. I mean I think we all know that.
Transactions are down 40% year-on-year. If you look across our markets and our buy box, new listings are the lowest they have ever been since 2004 and that just means there are fewer sellers in the market for us to engage with right now.
On our end, we are continuing to bid high spreads into our offers, and as you know, high spreads for us means lower offers, lower offers led to lower conversion, at least lower contracts. We have to decrease our spreads a fair bit since late last year with the record levels and I expect we will continue to do so just given seasonal tailwinds as we come into the new year and also the fact that the housing market is starting to firm up a little bit. But the reality is the housing market remains uncertain and we are going to continue to operate at a fairly of caution and we will continue to operate with high spreads for the foreseeable future.
Come back on volumes. We don’t break out where we are pacing specifically on volumes. I can tell you, for us suitable tends to be a jumping off point for a lot of home sellers to get back in the market and as we have been decreasing spreads since last year, there’s a lag in our business between offer to contract and we do expect to see a pickup in volume as we move through the second quarter.
Seasonality goes on throughout the entire year, we are seeing tailwinds right now. Seasonality shows up in the form of a slower back half where we increased spreads in the back half. But that’s not how you think about volumes for the pace of the year. Dod, do you want to talk a little bit about how we are thinking about sizing facilities?
Yeah. Happy too. I think, I mean, just to highlight, inventory balances at the end of the year were $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 are headed.
So -- and 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 have done and modulating that capacity for the seven years that I have been here. So I think our -- it’s something we are very comfortable with in reducing and feel like we will still have ample capacity to account for any upside to inventory.
Okay. Great. Thanks for taking my questions.
Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Jason Helfstein with Oppenheimer. Your line is now open.
Hey. Thanks. This is Chad on for Jason. So you talked about 30% of your 23 transactions going through exclusives in markets where the marketplace is launched. Two questions on that. First, any sense what percent of your total markets you will be launched in kind of by the end of the year? And then do you believe that, that’s driving the return to positive unit economics in the back half or is that just kind of the improvement in the new home cohorts? Thank you.
Hey, Chad. Our focus right now for 3P or for marketplace is really to refine and test in the local market. We are excited about the signal we are seeing so far and we are seeing sellers being very excited to opt into the program. We have about 3% share of the listings in the market that we are trialing 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 will 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 a relatively, I think, small number right now, but we are hoping the pace to acquire a number by the end of the year and into 2024.
It’s unrelated to what Christy said as to how contribution margins are going to play out for the rest of the year. That entirely has to do with the mix between our old book as we sell that off and that our new book becomes the vast majority to all of our margins in the second half.
Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Ygal Arounian with Citi. Your line is now open.
Hey. Good afternoon, everyone. I want to go -- just go back to the macro for a second and you are 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 wanted to get a sense of what you are building into your spreads and what you are thinking on the macro as we move forward and you are bringing your spreads down a little bit. Just want to understand what your expectations are for the house market as we work our way through the rest of the year?
Yeah. Happy to answer. So, look, if you look at the where the market is right now. We are continuing to see very low supply in the market, really multi-decade lows continuing. New listings are the lowest since 2004. So that’s a good setup for more stable pricing in 2023.
I think it’s also important to keep in mind how sort of the risk that we are taking from a housing price perspective, we typically own homes for, call it, four months. So that’s the duration of exposure we are 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 all was going back into 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 the year where given the strong leading indicators we have seen in January, we have been able to reduce those spreads. We continue, though, to be very cautious in 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 case is that spread will actually need to increase in the back half of the year, especially if the Fed has to raise rates higher to combat inflation higher than people are expecting.
Got it. And in terms of market expansion buy box and all those things, have you -- understanding we are on risk off mode and not purchasing the level of homes were purchasing last year. Can you pull back in any of the markets, is your overall strategy changed, I mean, definitely it hasn’t really changed, but is it -- does the pace of it change, have you pulled back anywhere, have you pulled back on your buy box at all or is that maybe just not holds in the near-term until we get back to a more normalized market? Thanks.
Yeah. I think the way that we have 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 point by charging a different spread and so you can see that play out both in terms of specific markets, as well as within pockets within markets sort of zip code or otherwise and so that’s really the lever by which we adjust pricing to account for that risk.
Okay.
So it’s not coming back on buybacks to be specific for adjusting the spread at the starting customers based on the riskiness of those.
Got it. Thanks.
Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Justin Patterson with KeyBanc Capital Markets. Your line is now open.
Great. Thank you very much and good afternoon. Carrie, I wanted to go back to exclusive to start with. Can you talk about the steps to build the density in those markets and just really get the supply you need to succeed with that and perhaps just frame helps to the core business? And then just a secondary question on the Zillow relationship. I know it’s very, very early here, but could you just talk about how we think about the pace of that relationship expanding, moving into new markets, how do you think about the conversion quality from that funnel versus some of the other channels you lean on? Thank you.
Hey, Justin. Do you mind repeating the first part of your first question, you broke up there a little bit for me. We had a hard time hearing that?
Sorry about that. The first question was just around Phase 2 of the exclusives product. Can you talk about just the steps needed to build density and market for that?
It’s really about aggregating supply and then from there aggregating buyer demand, which we haven’t had started on through our 1P business, but it’s really about bringing more buyers into the system over time.
On the Zillow side, as you said, it’s early. We had a Valentine’s Day launch. So far, so good. We are optimistic and enthusiastic about the prospects for that partnership, where we will 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 accretive marketing channel for us and just allow 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. Your line is now open.
Great. Thanks for taking the questions. Carrie, I just wanted to focus for sec on spreads. So the new cohorts, you took up spreads, led to some nice contribution margins so far albeit a lower volumes. I am not sure if I heard this incorrectly, but it sounds like you might be pulling back spreads a little bit as we go further into the year, and if that’s the case, how does that impact potential contribution margins if that was the case?
I think the comment we made is, one, we have been pulling, we even reduced these spreads since late last year when they were at record levels, peak uncertainty, record level spreads and we were reducing them as we come into the new year.
Two reasons, seasonal tailwind; and two, we have seen signs that the housing market is stabilizing the comment that Dod made earlier about where we are in terms of HPA prospects, the underpinning of like dozens of supply and new listings, what have you. We expect to continue to do so for a while.
That being said, seasonal tailwinds turn into seasonal headwinds in the second half of the year, every year. So there is some chance that we will look to like raise spreads again in the back half of the year.
Okay.
We will see, I mean, this -- I think the beauty of our business is that it’s dynamic and we are able to raise a response to what we are seeing in the market and we will continue to do so as we get more signal.
Okay. Got it. And then just a follow-up on the 1Q guidance. For the $370 million, $390 million negative EBITDA. How should we think about the GAAP gross margins that would be incorporated into that?
Curtis, I will take that. We don’t generally provide guidance on GAAP gross margin. You can kind of back into contribution margin using adjusted EBITDA and adjusted OpEx. And you can look at our -- you can look at the table for the new book and old book of inventory in our shareholder letter to get an idea of the margins, yeah, gross margins that we are seeing on those two books. There’s also a breakout of inventory by new book and old book in the shareholder letter that would be helpful.
Okay. Got it. Thank you.
Thank you. [Operator Instructions] Our next question comes from the line of Ryan Tomasello with KBW. Your line is now open.
Hi, everyone. Thanks for taking the questions. Can you maybe provide a bit more detail for how you plan to get to adjusted net income profitability at $10 billion of revenue. What assumptions you are baking in there for contribution margins, mix of 1P, 3P, OpEx, et cetera. I guess just running some back of the envelope math assuming 5% contribution margins, implies that you are assuming significant efficiencies on either the financing or OpEx side or maybe baking in higher unit economics altogether. So just trying to understand the moving pieces there? Thanks.
Yeah. I am happy to take that one, Ryan. Number one, it bears mentioning, we are highly focused on returning our business to adjust net income profitability as quickly as possible. For us the tipping point is $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 a normal housing market and you think about the share we have back then and you adjusted for just where we are today, which is 4x bigger in terms of the combination of additional buy box expansion in new markets. With like-for-like share, frankly, even a little less than like-for-like share gets you back to $10 billion in 2024. So that’s on the topline.
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 had in 2019, much deeper partnership channel, what have you.
And then on the margin side, I mean, we still think about the 1P business contributing 4% to 6%. But as I said in my earlier comments, we are going after at least 100 basis points of margin throughout the entire system and we would expect to be back to normalized turns, call that, 3 turns to 3.5 turns a year. I think you put all that together and you get to ANI positive.
It does not have large assumptions for a mix of capital-light or asset-light business, i.e., 3P or listed certainty, for example. And again, your buyers -- our buyers is to be conservative in how we kind of put out these markers and so we haven’t embedded a lot of new product lines into that number. So we feel good about the $10 billion marker.
Okay. Great. And then a quick follow-up would be just trying to understand how you are thinking about the capital requirements for the business once you move past the 2Q cohort here and the business mix transitions to a balance of both the 1P and 3P 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 1P business, while also providing you with enough flexibility to invest in scaling the 3P business, which I assume you would look to consider some marketing spend there to drive adoption? Thanks.
Yeah. Happy to answer that. So, look, I think, we are very comfortable executing our business plan with the $2 billion in capital that we have today, $1.3 billion in 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 balance is. So I think the plan that we have articulated, the plan that we are going after, we are very comfortable with $2 billion in capital is more than enough to finance the plans we are marketing against.
Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Ryan McKeveny with Zelman & Associates. Your line is now open.
Hi. Thank you very much. Just to come back to exclusives. I have a three-part question, so I will throw it out all at once. So you mentioned in the letter that you began to offer exclusive as an option to sellers in 4Q. So, firstly, just any thoughts you can share on the initial reception from home sellers. Second part of the question, more generally, can you just talk about the value proposition of -- to home sellers of exclusives? I think we all understand the value prop around the 1P model with convenience and certainty of the cash offer, et cetera. 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 the, 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 fee charged to the home buyer.
I will do my best to remember all of that. Let me start the top. So we started with exclusive listings. That was taking our Opendoor owned inventory and windowing it in effect to buyers if they should come and buy the home on an as is where Step 2 [ph] basis and we have had really good success with that. We have had sales we are getting about 15% to 20% in the first two weeks on those exclusive listing homes, was using our inventory and we continue to need to pursue that model.
Step 2, I think, it’s -- the second part of your question was around what the value prop to sellers. The value prop to them is if they often are putting in their home in the marketplace. They are still looking at a scenario where they are, not enduring more than one showing then they have a limited window of 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 have had for years now and we can help monetize those and bring those offers to the floor that they can’t otherwise get and we can bring other offers from other buyers in our network to them and then they have the option to choose to take that price or not.
They obviously also have the backup of our certain all cash offer, if that’s something they want to be themselves. So it’s a lot less burdensome, less time. There’s still certainty in the process again vastly superior to the traditional selling process today. That’s the value prop to them.
As for the economics, I suspect we will continue to take with them an experiment over time. Today, we charge a 5% fee to the seller and we are sharing some of that with the buyer. How that shakes out over time? I don’t know. So I think I am a little low to commit to this is specific of the unit economics right now. That, for example, doesn’t include any services of cash. There’s no tie that’s growing there, all those things to come, but that is where we are at today.
That’s great. Thank you very much, Carrie. One additional question, the comment about list with certainty. I don’t believe I have heard you talk about that before, so maybe you can just expand on what that product is and how that kind of fits 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 are indexing uncertainty convenience. But there’s 90% that we are not addressing in the current high spread environment. We want to make sure that we still give them an option to move and so we are -- we will be expanding our list with certainty products.
They can list their home on the market with us. to maximize market price, still retain the certainty of our own cash offer that they can take at any time. And so far, we are seeing about 20%, 25% of customers, choose with a certainty when presented with that option. So we are optimistic that we will be driving more asset-light volumes through that product over time in this environment.
Got it. Thank you very much.
You are welcome.
Thank you. Our last question comes from the line of Jay McCanless with Wedbush. Your line is now open.
Hey. Thanks for taking my follow-up. So just, Carrie, I wanted to push a little bit more on, if the mortgage market doesn’t go down, the mortgage rates don’t go down, if mortgage rates actually go up from here and we see sellers be even more reluctant to get out of the house they are in now. I guess what’s plan B and what does the business look like in that scenario? Do you walk away from higher priced markets, so you are 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 listings, things like that? Just maybe walk us through an environment where rates go up instead of down?
Yeah. I mean, I’d say at the highest level, I think, we show and hopefully what we have provided in the shareholder letter, we can still create attractive unit economics, attractive cohorts even in this environment of high rate, high mortgage rates, rate volatility and we expect to continue to do so. Mortgage rates have been pretty volatile in the last couple of weeks. We are reflecting that in how we adjust for spreads. So we will continue to do that through the course of the year.
If volumes are continue to be suppressed for the industry and they continue to be down and that persists for a long period of time. I think we know this imperative that we manage our cost structure, our capital, good news is we have a lot of it, that we provide here and so we compare that we mitigate losses and preserve book value and we are going to manage the business with that in mind.
So we are not managing it to the absolute point of the trough today, but if I look ahead of 2024, if that’s sort of the question in your comments and learn for a longer trough period in the housing cycle, we will take a harder look at our cost structure in light of that, we will have to.
Okay. Great. Thanks for taking the follow-up.
Thank you. I would now like to hand the conference back over to Carrie Wheeler for closing remarks.
I just want to thank everyone for joining and participating today. And hopefully you heard from us, we feel confident with the decisions we have made to-date to navigate what has been a challenging housing environment are 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.
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