Two key charts to make sense of the crazy US housing market

Media headlines focusing on a pending US housing market crash are based on limited data that’s skewed by the outsized 2021 numbers. Mike DelPrete offers two charts to help you consistently refocus on market realities. Continue reading

Opendoor faces ‘existential’ crisis as iBuying fights for survival

The company recently reported a nearly billion-dollar loss and has now dramatically rearranged its executive lineup as the cash-buying sector contends with a slowing market. Continue reading

All brokerages are entering the winter of real estate: Mike DelPrete

Now that earnings are in for the big box brokerages, the anticipated revenue decline is clear. But does it tell the whole story? Continue reading

Compass must cut faster and deeper to break even in 2023: DelPrete

Compass continued to burn cash in the latest quarter but also demonstrated a reduction in operating expenses as the company aims to break even in 2023, Mike DelPrete writes. With a historically high cash burn, Compass needs to cut faster and deeper tha… Continue reading

Redfin called ‘fundamentally flawed’ by analyst amid stock market havoc

Real estate companies including Compass, Offerpad and Opendoor saw share prices hit all-time lows Monday. The rout suggests investors may have deep concerns about the real estate industry. Continue reading

Opendoor is where Zillow Offers was a year ago: Mike DelPrete

Exactly one year ago, Zillow Offers was in a similar position to the one that Opendoor now finds itself in and shut down its operations. Mike DelPrete offers insight into the path forward for Opendoor and why it might be different this time around. Continue reading

Opendoor lays off 18% of workforce ahead of Q3 earnings call this week

The cuts affect approximately 550 people, Opendoor CEO Eric Wu said in a blog post Wednesday, and come amid a worsening housing market that has forced layoffs across the real estate industry. Continue reading

Real estate companies are about to tell us just how bad the downturn is

Many of the industry’s big companies are about to report their third-quarter earnings. The reports will offer the first in-depth look at how firms coped with a rapidly cooling market. Continue reading

Expect more mergers, acquisitions, consolidations and liquidations: Mike DelPrete

The real estate industry is in the midst of a massive financial reckoning. Amidst this turmoil, the industry is bifurcating into predators and prey — companies that have the resources to expand through acquisition and those burning cash that are vulner… Continue reading

Stop making comparisons to 2021. It’s an outlier: DelPrete

Year-over-year numbers don’t take into account the fact that the pandemic years were radical outliers on a number of levels, real estate being just one. Mike DelPrete analyzes the fallacies associated with much of the current market handwringing. Continue reading