Offerpad (OPAD) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript

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DATE

Monday, February 23, 2026 at 4:30 p.m. ET

CALL PARTICIPANTS

• Chief Executive Officer — Brian Bair
• Chief Financial Officer — Peter Knag
• Chief Strategy Officer and President of Cash Offer Marketplace — Rich Ford
• Chief Operating Officer — Chris Carpenter

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TAKEAWAYS

• Revenue -- $114 million for the quarter and $568 million for the full year, directly attributable to 312 and 1,591 homes sold, respectively.
• Gross margin -- 7% in the quarter and 7.4% for the full year, generating $8 million in quarterly and $42 million in annual gross profit.
• Adjusted EBITDA loss -- $6.9 million for the quarter, with underlying performance stable versus the prior quarter excluding restructuring and one-time costs.
• Liquidity position -- Over $55 million at quarter-end, comprised of $27 million in unrestricted cash and the fair market value of inventory; increases to over $70 million including $18 million capital raised in early Q1 2026.
• Expense reduction -- More than $140 million in annualized expenses eliminated since 2022, with Q4 operating expenses down to $15 million from $24 million a year prior.
• Transaction guidance -- Management guides for 250-300 real estate transactions in the first quarter, targeting annualized run-rate of approximately 1,000 transactions per quarter by year-end across Cash Offer, Marketplace, and brokerage.
• Product mix evolution -- Over 60% of transactions processed through Cash Offer in the near term, with management aiming for a future 50/50 mix across Cash Offer and Marketplace as brokerage expands; segment proportions may shift monthly.
• Renovate segment -- $27.1 million revenue in 2025, up about 50% year over year; operates at 20%-30% margin as a fee-based B2B service for external partners.
• Inventory turnover and composition -- As of call, aged inventory not under contract reduced to under 60 homes; all inventory cohorts except two homes expected to be profitable.
• Demand indicators -- Signed contracts doubled (up 102%) from November through January, with December signing volumes rising 71% sequentially; by mid-February, 305 contracts signed, almost matching the full Q4 total of 314 with half the quarter left.
• Contribution margin targeting -- Property-level margins targeted in the mid-single digits, but business model emphasizes capital velocity, with stated 90-120 day turn times delivering implied 15%-20% annualized returns on deployed capital.
• Capital needs outlook -- Management states "our 2026 framework does not currently assume additional capital," with operations planned within current liquidity and asset-backed facilities.
• AI/tech platform investment -- CEO Bair said, "we are embedding institutional-grade analytics into the core operating model," with proprietary decision-science tools enhancing capital allocation and pricing precision.

SUMMARY

Offerpad Solutions (NYSE:OPAD) highlighted a strategic shift to a four-solution platform, with a focus on disciplined capital allocation and operational restructuring to support a ramp to 1,000 transactions per quarter by year-end and a return to profitability. The company reported a significant reduction in operating expenses and emphasized scalable systems and cost controls that allow for higher transaction volume without proportional expense escalation. Management described a pivot from a one-solution iBuyer to a multi-solution real estate platform, stating, "we are no longer a one-solution company seeking to attach ancillary services. We are a platform where each solution is designed to generate meaningful revenue and operate at scale."

• Over $18 million in new capital was raised early in the first quarter of 2026, strengthening liquidity for growth initiatives.
• Renovate was identified as incremental to the 1,000-transaction quarterly goal, contributing high-margin B2B revenue that supports overall profitability but is excluded from transaction targets.
• Operational focus shifted from transaction volume to readiness and measured portfolio optimization, with tightened underwriting criteria and heightened return-on-capital requirements for acquisitions.
• Management expects transaction mix to trend toward a balanced split between core Cash Offer and Marketplace products as brokerage listings and agent partnerships expand.
• AI and analytics investments are said to be materially impacting operational efficiency, with CEO Bair stating internal productivity may improve by "60%, 70%," and previously labor-intensive functions—such as inspection scheduling—now automated.
• Contribution margin improvements and accelerated capital velocity are expected to drive annualized returns of 15%-20% on deployed capital, contingent upon achieving targeted portfolio turn rates.

INDUSTRY GLOSSARY

• Cash Offer: The company's service of purchasing homes directly from sellers, enabling fast, certain transactions through company balance sheet deployment.
• Cash Offer Marketplace: Platform within the company that routes properties to external professional buyers, enabling asset disposition without principal capital deployment and earning seller-paid fees.
• Direct Plus: Network of external buyers (short-term investors, regional professionals, structured capital partners) participating in the company's Cash Offer Marketplace.
• Renovate: The company's business unit executing targeted repairs and full renovations for both internally owned and third-party single-family properties as a service line.
• HomePro: Premium brokerage listing service within the company, delivering curated seller experiences and referral fee revenue.

Full Conference Call Transcript

Brian Bair: Thank you, Cortney, and thank you to everyone for joining us today. On the call with me today is our Chief Financial Officer, Peter Knag, along with leaders who are central to how we execute and scale in 2026. Rich Ford, our Chief Strategy Officer and President of Cash Offer Marketplace, and Chris Carpenter, our Chief Operating Officer. Each of these leaders owns a core operating function that directly impacts how we allocate capital, drive conversion, and deliver returns. Today's call is about three things. First, the disciplined capital allocation decisions we made in 2025, decisions that we believe position us for sustainable, profitable growth.

Second, how we evolve from a single product company into a four-solution real estate platform capable of monetizing transactions across a spectrum of capital intensity. Third, how the operational improvements we made in 2025, stronger pricing segmentation, better conversion infrastructure, and deeper marketplace liquidity are translating to momentum we are already seeing in early 2026. Let us start with the market context. The housing market remains constrained. Transaction volumes are below historic norms. Affordability continues to limit mobility. Mortgage rates, while moderating, remain elevated relative to the prior cycle. Recovery is gradual and uneven. At the same time, nearly half of the listed homes hitting the market today are over 40 years old.

Many of these homes require significant updates to meet modern buyer expectations and mortgage financing standards, yet homeowners are often locked into low mortgage rates and lack the liquidity or time to renovate before selling. The combination of aging inventory, capital constraints, and limited mobility creates friction, and friction suppresses transactions.

Brian Bair: Friction also creates opportunity for platforms that can step into that gap. That is where Offerpad Solutions Inc. is designed to perform. We purchase homes at approximately $370,000 median price, which is right in the heart of affordability for first-time and middle-income buyers. In 2025, we invested an average of $25,000 per home in targeted repairs and renovations, and we delivered move-in ready, mortgage-eligible homes in established neighborhoods where supply is often limited. We are not just facilitating transactions. We are solving a fundamental market problem, expanding access to quality, move-in ready housing at price points where demand is strongest and supply remains constrained. Let me talk about what we did in 2025 and why.

Our priority in 2025 was not volume, it was readiness.

Brian Bair: We made a deliberate choice to widen underwriting spreads, operate with tighter risk guardrails, and slow acquisition velocity, rather than to chase transactions into an uncertain market. Let me be specific about what we saw and why we made that choice. Throughout 2025, the housing market showed intermittent signs of improvement, the underlying transaction data remained unstable. Existing home sales were approximately 4.1 million units, essentially flat year-over-year and the lowest annual level since the mid-90s. At the same time, we observed operational signals across our markets. Days on market extended in multiple metros. Price dispersion widened even within the same neighborhoods, buyer cost pressures from insurance to taxes to maintenance increasingly impacted transaction velocity and completion rates.

When transaction velocity slows and price dispersion increases, pricing accuracy matters more and margin for error shrinks.

Brian Bair: That combination triggered our decision to, 1, tighten buy box guardrails and, 2, increase required contribution margins before deploying capital. Last year, every home competed for capital. If we could not underwrite to a durable, risk-adjusted return, we simply did not transact. Importantly, what we are seeing in entering 2026 is greater pricing clarity. While overall transaction volumes remain constrained, instability has moderated. Days on market have stabilized in several of our core markets. Price cuts have become more predictable. Inventory growth has normalized relative to demand. We are not calling for a housing surge. What we are seeing is a market that is more measurable. Measurability supports disciplined scaling.

Over the past several years, the housing market has reinforced a clear lesson: capital deployed without discipline erodes returns quickly. We chose a different path.

Brian Bair: In the second half of 2025, we deliberately slowed acquisitions and cleared aged inventory acquired earlier in the year. That decision pressured near-term Cash Offer margins. It positioned us to enter 2026 with a cleaner, faster-turning portfolio. As of today, aged inventory that is not under contract has been reduced to fewer than 60 homes, materially lowering aged inventory exposure. Importantly, as of the end of the year, all cohorts across our inventory, with the exception of 2 homes, are expected to be profitable. As we enter 2026, we are doing so with a streamlined portfolio, limited aged exposure, and embedded marked-to-market strength across the majority of our assets. Importantly, while we moderated capital deployment, demand did not moderate.

Top-of-funnel engagement remained consistent. Just in the past few months, from November through January, signed contracts doubled, up 102%, reflecting stronger downstream execution.

Brian Bair: December signed volumes increased 71% month-over-month. That momentum carried into January. In fact, as of mid-February, we have signed approximately 305 contracts, nearly matching the full Q4 total of 314, with half the quarter remaining. These are measurable leading indicators that we did not lose demand. We chose to align capital more selectively against that demand. At the same time, we learned something important about today's seller. Throughout 2025, we analyzed the outcomes of sellers who came to Offerpad Solutions Inc., whether they accepted our Cash Offer, listed their home, refinanced, or ultimately stayed put. What became clear is this: sellers are not coming to us for a Cash Offer alone. They are coming to us for a liquidity solution.

They are seeking help understanding trade-offs, timelines, and outcomes. That shift is precisely why expanding into a broader multi-solution platform was necessary.

Brian Bair: We responded by building an integrated conversion engine designed to meet sellers where they are and guide them to the best solution, whether that is an Offerpad Solutions Inc. Cash Offer, an external buyer Cash Offer through our Cash Offer Marketplace, or a listing solution. Here is what is materially different today compared to prior years. First, we are no longer a one-solution company seeking to attach ancillary services. We are a platform where each solution is designed to generate meaningful revenue and operate at scale. Second, we built the operational infrastructure to convert sellers across these pathways. That means dedicated teams, refined handoff processes, and technology that tracks the customer journey across multiple solutions.

Third, we are seeing it in our data. Conversion rates are improving. Customers who do not take our Cash Offer are increasingly staying in our ecosystem by transacting through the marketplace or listing solutions.

Brian Bair: Let me walk you through the four solutions that makes this possible. First is the Cash Offer, which remains the foundation of our business. We deliver pricing certainty to sellers, purchase homes, renovate, and sell them to buyers, create a streamlined, reliable transaction from start to finish. Our underwriting today reflects a sophisticated application of decision science, supported by generative AI and machine learning. Ensures we are buying the right homes in the right markets at the right time. We are leveraging years of operating data and experience, transaction history, and market intelligence to increase pricing precision and reduce risk. In parallel, under the leadership of Dr.

Jay Singh, our Chief Pricing and Analytics Officer, we are developing and piloting an integrated portfolio management system that applies AI, machine learning, and advanced decision science to optimize the full life cycle of a home, acquisition, hold strategy, and disposition.

Brian Bair: This platform is designed to fuse qualitative property-level signals, including images, inspection notes, and customer interactions, with quantitative inputs such as local micro market dynamics, demand indicators, inventory trends, and broader macroeconomic data. By integrating qualitative and quantitative data into a unified decision framework, we are improving precision, increasing consistency, and optimizing capital allocation across our Cash Offer portfolio. Let me be clear about how we think about our Cash Offer returns. We are not optimizing for margin per home; we are optimizing for return on deployed capital. On a property level, we target contribution margins in the mid-single digits, but what matters is capital velocity.

We are targeting 90-120 day turn times, which means we can turn the same dollar of capital three to four times per year.

Brian Bair: When you turn capital that fast at those property-level margins, we are generating annualized returns in the 15%-20% range on deployed capital. That is the right way to evaluate Cash Offer economics. The business operates with clear guardrails around pricing, risk, and capital deployment, but our focus is velocity and returns, not just margin per transaction. Second is the Cash Offer marketplace. This solution extends external buyer demand beyond our balance sheet by routing homes to a diversified network of professional buyers. Our Direct Plus partners include short-term value add operators, regional professional investors, and structured capital buyers. This diversity is strategic. It deepens buyer demand, increases bid confidence, and enhances execution certainty for sellers.

By matching homes with the right capital profile for each property and market, we are able to deliver more competitive outcomes while maintaining disciplined capital allocation.

Brian Bair: When you route a home through the marketplace, we retain a 5% average seller-paid fee, approximately $20,000 on a $400,000 home, without deploying principal capital. Last year, marketplace transactions increased approximately 60% year-over-year. To lead continued growth, Rich Ford joined Offerpad Solutions Inc. as Chief Strategy Officer and President of Cash Offer Marketplace. Rich brings more than two decades of experience building and scaling residential real estate marketplaces. His mandate is to expand and scale this business line. Third is brokerage services. Within brokerage services is HomePro. This is not a traditional listing attachment. It is a premium, differentiated listing service designed to deliver a highly curated, value-added experience for sellers who prefer to go to market.

When a seller lists through HomePro, Offerpad Solutions Inc. earns a referral fee, which averaged approximately $4,500 per transaction in 2025.

Brian Bair: Within brokerage services, the agent partnership program allows agents to introduce Offerpad Solutions Inc. as one of several options available to their sellers, including the Cash Offer. Agents remain the trusted advisor, helping sellers evaluate alternatives and determine the right path for their situation. In 2025, approximately one-third of Cash Offer requests originated through agents who included Offerpad Solutions Inc. as part of the conversation, reinforcing our role as a solutions platform, supporting both sellers and real estate professionals. Additionally, we work with home builders through our home builder program, helping buyers remove sale contingencies on new construction by providing certainty around the sale of their existing home.

Together, brokerage services positions Offerpad Solutions Inc. as a first stop for both sellers and agents, with the goal of ensuring each customer is directed to the right solution while improving conversion across the platform. Fourth is Renovate. Renovate plays a dual role.

Brian Bair: First, it enables the performance of our Cash Offer model. As stated earlier, many homes require updates before they are list-ready and mortgage-eligible. By executing these improvements efficiently and with cost discipline, we return homes to the market in buyer-ready condition that meets financing standards. This expands access to quality, move-in-ready housing, often at price points aligned with first-time and middle-income buyers in supply-constrained neighborhoods. Second, Renovate is a fee-based B2B service, generating margins between 20% and 30%. It supports professional owners, operators, and Direct Plus partners with targeted repairs and full rehabs, enhancing asset readiness and execution while producing revenue without deploying balance sheet capital. Last year, Renovate generated $27 million in revenue, up approximately 50% year-over-year.

Led by veteran renovation leader Bobby Triplett, who has overseen more than 40,000 renovations, the business delivers consistent execution and cost control at scale.

Brian Bair: In 2026, we are focused on expanding business-to-business partners while maintaining margin consistency and repeat volume. Together, these 4 solutions provide flexibility to support the right path for each seller while operating within our defined capital structure. Importantly, our 2026 framework does not currently assume additional capital. We believe the capital base we have today positions us well to scale transaction volumes, drive conversion improvements, and return to profitability within that structure. To execute this at scale, we have strengthened operating leadership. Chris Carpenter joined as Chief Operating Officer with responsibility to optimize the operating system that drives execution across the platform, end-to-end performance, cross-functional coordination, and scalable systems that deliver consistent outcomes within our guardrails.

Scaling with defined risk requires more than oversight. It requires repeatable processes, disciplined feedback loops, and systems designed to produce optimal outcomes at scale. That is where AI-led decision science becomes foundational.

Brian Bair: Across acquisition, underwriting, renovation, and disposition, we are embedding institutional-grade analytics into the core operating model. Powered by more than a decade of transaction and customer data, our system increasingly integrate both structured and unstructured inputs, from market dynamics and inventory trends to property-level signals, to support more consistent, analytically driven decisions. This is not automation for automation's sake, it is about improving return stability. Better precision at entry reduces volatility. Portfolio-level optimization improves capital rotation. More disciplined disposition decisions protect margin and enhance balance sheet efficiency.

At the board level, we expand the breadth of expertise to support the continued scaling of our multi-solution real estate operating model with the addition of Tela Gallagher Mathias, who brings more than 25 years of enterprise technology and generative AI leadership across the housing, finance, and regulated environments. The work we did in 2025 was about readiness.

Brian Bair: We did not chase volume, we built infrastructure. We did not deploy capital indiscriminately, we engineered optionality. The result is that Offerpad Solutions Inc. today is a different company than it was 12 months ago. Stepping back, what we are building here is a fundamentally different category leader, not just an iBuyer, and more than a brokerage. A housing transaction platform that meets sellers across multiple pathways, deploys capital selectively, and generates returns through a mix of principal and fee-based businesses. Our near-term objective is approximately 1,000 transactions per quarter as we exit 2026. It gets us to profitability, it proves the operating model at scale. Let me be clear, 1,000 transactions per quarter is not the finish line.

It is just the beginning. I will now turn the call over to Peter.

Peter Knag: Thank you, Brian. As you have heard, over the past year, and especially in recent months, we have strengthened leadership across our core operating areas, refined our operating model, and leaned into a broader product set focused on targeting higher conversion and profit. That clarity is translating into more disciplined capital deployment, tighter cost control, and more consistent execution. In Q4, revenue was $114 million, with 312 homes sold, bringing full-year revenue to $568 million on 1,591 homes sold. Gross margin was 7% for the quarter and 7.4% for the full year, generating gross profit of $8 million and $42 million, respectively.

Peter Knag: While volumes in 2025 were below historical norms, the operating framework and controls supporting those transactions are stronger than ever before, we expect this will position us to scale back up to higher volumes, driven by our broader product set. Adjusted EBITDA loss for the fourth quarter was $6.9 million. Excluding one-time restructuring and other costs, underlying performance was consistent with the prior quarter. At quarter end, total liquidity was over $55 million, reflecting unrestricted cash, plus the estimated fair market value of our inventory and including $27 million of unrestricted cash.

As previously announced, we completed an $18 million capital raise early in the first quarter of 2026, further strengthening our liquidity and providing additional flexibility to support increased transaction volumes. Including the $18 million capital raise, our total liquidity was over $70 million.

Peter Knag: At the same time, the cost structure of the business has fundamentally changed, with over $140 million of annualized expenses removed since 2022. Importantly, our cost base can support much higher transaction volumes without proportional overhead growth. That operating leverage is a critical driver of our expected path to profitability in 2026. Turning to the near term, we expect the first quarter to reflect normal seasonality and a measured start for the year. For Q1, we are guiding to 250-300 real estate transactions across Cash Offer, Cash Offer marketplace, and brokerage listings, with revenue of $70 million-$95 million in sequential improvement in Adjusted EBITDA. Importantly, we believe current transaction volume represents a trough for the business.

Peter Knag: The low volume experienced over 2025 is expected to be temporary and reflects our strategic expansion into a broader set of solutions. By offering more paths for sellers, we increase the likelihood of engagement and selection, which we expect to drive aggregate transaction growth, improved overall conversion, and a reduction in customer acquisition costs over time. We have already begun to see increased activity early in the year, with transaction pipeline rising meaningfully in the first several weeks of the quarter. Given the natural timing of the acquisition to sales cycle, that pipeline momentum is expected to translate into higher closed transaction volumes over subsequent quarters, supporting growth and volume as we move through the year.

In 2026, our expectation is to return to approximately 1,000 home transactions per quarter across Cash Offer, Cash Offer Marketplace, and brokerage services.

Peter Knag: We expect to reach this goal as we exit 2026. Separately, Renovate remains an important revenue engine, incremental to the rest of the business. Renovate delivered $27.1 million in revenue in 2025. While these projects are service-based B2B transactions and not included in the 1,000 transaction per quarter target, they contribute meaningfully to margin and overall profitability. At these levels of activity, and with the cost structure and product mix in place today, we believe the business is positioned to support a return to profitability. Based on our current outlook, we continue to expect to achieve positive Adjusted EBITDA within the year.

We enter 2026 with a stronger balance sheet, a structurally lower cost base, healthy inventory levels, and a broader set of monetization pathways than at any point in recent years.

Peter Knag: That foundation supports more consistent performance as we scale responsibly across a diversified platform. Importantly, our 2026 operating framework currently does not require incremental capital to execute. We believe our current liquidity position, asset-backed facilities, and operating structure fully support our plan to scale within defined guardrails. We remain open to potential capital opportunities if they enhance flexibility, lower our cost of capital, or accelerate growth initiatives. With that, we are now ready to take your questions.

Operator: At this time, I would like to remind everyone, in order to ask a question, press star, then the number one on your telephone keypad. We will pause for just a moment to compile the Q&A roster. Your first question comes from the line of Dae Lee with JP Morgan. Your line is open.

Dae K. Lee: Great, thanks for taking my questions. I have two. First one for Brian. With the AI expertise you have added across the board, where are you most excited to see the impact of AI in your business, and which P&L line should we expect to see that show up first? Secondly, to Peter, could you walk us through the bridge from first quarter 2026 transaction volume to the year-end target? If there is any, like, key step up or proof points that we should be watching during the year, and if that rise should be steady, or do you expect more of a back out ramp as you go into 2027? Thank you.

Brian Bair: Hey, Dae, do you want to take the first one, and I will take—

Peter Knag: Sure, you want start with, start with the second question.

Brian Bair: Yeah, start second.

Peter Knag: Yeah, sure. Sure. So we are ramping. I mean, we have effectively given full year guidance, right, at 1,000 transactions and per quarter as we exit. So that, so that means that, you know, on a run rate basis as we exit, we will get up to that level. We have guided towards 250-300 real estate transactions. Just, you know, reclarifying that we are moving now to a focus, a three product focus across the Cash Offer, the Cash Offer marketplace, which is when we are selling homes, underwriting and selling to an investor, and three traditional list product as well.

We are not giving guidance for second quarter and third quarter, but what I would say, Dae, is we expect a fairly, you know, roughly linear, growth trend as we move from in the neighborhood of 100 transactions per month, up to just above, 300 transactions a month across a broader product set of three products instead of one.

Brian Bair: Yeah, and then I will take... And hey, Dae, I, I will take the, the AI. You know, listen, AI is such a powerful tool. I am, I am excited and a lot of different, a lot of different, areas there. Specifically, you know, the real estate operations and, and the power of AI, what we are working on there as far as pricing, pricing sensitivity, you know, we have 10 years of data, that, that we can pull from property inspections to likely sellers to... It is just phenomenal what, what, what, what, you know, over the last 10 years of what AI can do with that.

So, the, the data that we have in, in place, but also just as, as we work through the process of— from the disposition process of when to sell, how to sell, how to look at those things differently. But there, there is like I said, the, the, the real estate is, is, is really impactful, but we are also seeing immediately, we are seeing some really good impact in just something very simple is through AI voice scheduling inspections. You know, we schedule hundreds and thousands of inspections throughout the year. We have had a lot of labor, either outsourcing it or, you know, overseas or having large internal teams.

You know, with the ability of AI voice, we can now schedule in inspections, have our call center Q&A, people can call and ask questions about where they are in the process. The other thing I will just add about AI is that it is, it is across the company. You know, even just our individual employees using that in their day-to-day, you know, life on that, is I think it makes them 60%, 70% more efficient. You know, there, there is, there is a lot of opportunity we are really excited about there.

Dae K. Lee: Thank you.

Operator: Your next question comes from the line of Ryan Tomasello with KBW. Your line is open.

Ryan Tomasello: Hi, everyone. Thanks for taking the questions. Starting with the real estate transaction targets for the year, can you give us a sense of, of what mix you expect the traditional Cash Offer products to comprise, as you kind of march towards that 1,000 target per quarter? You know, more near term here, what is being baked into the 1Q guide, for real estate transactions in terms of that Cash Offer mix?

Peter Knag: Sure. Yeah, we... Hey, Ryan. We, we have been, as we have, we have talked about before, it depends on the month and the quarter, but somewhere in the neighborhood of a third of the transactions have been across Direct Plus, and two-thirds through Cash Offer. Now, we have three, three products, not primarily one or two. As we, as we focus really equally across three products, we expect that mix to move up towards, you know, eventually to, to 50/50 range. Again, it will, it will change month-over-month. But that, that is the effectively where, where we expect to go.

Brian Bair: Yeah. I, I think. Hey, Ryan, I think you are going to see 2/3, 1/3 as, as we begin here, but like Peter Knag said, we are, we are focused and, you know, our, our, our focus really is what is going to provide seller with the best solution, whether that is a Cash Offer from Offerpad Solutions Inc. or one of our partners or, or the listing side. We are going to work towards 50/50 and, and figuring out what the best solution for them is. As we focus on every day, everyone that comes to Offerpad Solutions Inc., we want to have a solution for them and be able to convert them in, into one of our solutions.

Peter Knag: I just add one more thing, Ryan, just as to that, we are on our trending schedules on the IR site, going to begin breaking out volumes across... We already have Cash Offer and Renovate. We are going to have a third KPI with volumes for the other two, two products. Then just finally, as you think about the quarters, we are not guiding specifically to the mix for first quarter, but... You can look at the percentages, and then I would add for, for fourth quarter, in addition to the home sold number that we disclosed, there were between 50 and above 50 transactions across the other services.

Ryan Tomasello: Okay. Yeah, I appreciate all that color. Then you guys have obviously done a really nice job executing on the expense efficiency side. I guess as you think through your 2026 operating framework here, how much more wood is there still left to chop on the expense side? How dependent is the break-even EBITDA target on continuing to drive down on the OpEx side of the P&L?

Peter Knag: Yeah, for sure. I mean, first, I point, I would point out we, you know, we have done a, a lot there. If you just look at... Part of, part of expenses is we, we, we, we will continue to march forward and take out additional expenses. If you look at Q4 2025 versus Q4 2024, operating expenses came down from $24 million to $15 million, so $9 million there. Again, there was a, an additional RIF, and some actions in fourth quarter. There is some third-party spend that we continue to look at, one that, one that is a, a fairly large item that we are, that we are hoping to execute across.

There will be, there will be more there. I just want to highlight that we have, we have already come a long way, so as we, as we look at the, the taking the, the operating, the, the taking the operating contribution, from a cash flow perspective down to zero, we, we have done a lot of it already. The, the biggest piece that, that is left is to, is to take up the transactions up towards 1,000, transactions per quarter.

Brian Bair: Right. One, one thing that, that I will add to that is, you know, with, with what we are looking at as we, as we build and, and scale the company again, scale it differently and smarter, and, and obviously with the power of AI and technology, the ability of what we can do as, as we continue to grow. You know, the 1,000 transactions is our first short-term goal, and then, and then after that. To scale it through AI and technology is, is, is something we are going to be focused on.

Ryan Tomasello: Great. Thanks, guys.

Operator: Again, just a reminder, if you would like to ask a question, please press star and the number one on your keypad. Our next question comes from Gaurav Mehta with Alliance Global Partners. Your line is open.

Gaurav Mehta: Yeah, thanks for taking my, my question. I wanted to ask you on your comments around 4 solutions platform and, and, you know, may, maybe get some color on, you know, how you view revenue allocation from each of those solutions, maybe near term and short, long term?

Peter Knag: Sure. Yeah, so, so this business is all about conversion. There is three solutions that are, that are solutions for our, our, our home sellers. Again, we are really pivoting from, you know, mostly focusing on one solution to three, and by doing that, we, we, we expect that conversion will climb materially. One of the, one of the big focus areas of our Chief Operating Officer who just joined is, is conversion across our portfolio. We have in any given month, somewhere between 10 and 20,000 home sellers top of funnel. To get to the to get to the 1,000 transaction mark per quarter, we need to increase conversion by just around 1%.

It is not a huge amount when you look at it from that perspective. Just to round out your question, it is really three products that are focused on the home seller and conversion that are, that are the, that are that homeowner B2C transaction. Our fourth product is really a separate, you know, product line. It is related. It is our renovation business, where we renovate real estate assets, single-family homes that are owned by other third parties.

Gaurav Mehta: All right. Thanks for that color. The second question I want to ask you, maybe big picture, you know, there have been some talks about government restricting institutional investors from purchasing single-family homes. Just wanted to get some color if that impacts your business at all, directly or indirectly.

Brian Bair: Yeah. As, as far as from the Offerpad Solutions Inc. perspective, we own homes short term, so we are aligned with how they are thinking is, you know, the, the, the homeownership side, you know, that is what our— that is the mission of our company from day one. Definitely aligned on that. You know, from an Offerpad Solutions Inc. perspective, we buy, renovate, and sell homes and put a better home on the market within a very short period of time. As far as our Cash Offer Marketplace, you know, there is two ways to look at our, the, our Direct Plus partners in there.

We have long-term investors, which think of the rental, rental fund, and we have short terms. On the short-term side, you will see everything from, think of more fix and flips, to, to partners in there that will have a different kind of cash, cash buyers or a cash offer for the seller. They will get 80% of the money up front and then be able to have some of the, the, the share, some of the upside. From the, from the long-term investment side, obviously, we are watching that closely, but what we have focused on the last year is adding a different array of cash buyers in there.

To have hundreds of different kinds of cash buyers in there, for example, if one, if one segment slows down for any reason, we are going to have another segment that can pick up that volume. So, so obviously, we are, we are watching it closely. I do like just overall, I think the, the, the focus on affordability and, and homeownership is, is I think it is key for Offerpad Solutions Inc., and it is something we believe in.

Gaurav Mehta: All right. Thanks for that, detail. That is all I have.

Operator: There are no further questions at this time. This concludes today's conference call. You may now disconnect.

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