Home-Flipper Opendoor Hit With Losses in Echo of Zillow Collapse

 

Company lost money on 42% of its August resales after it failed to anticipate slide in housing demand.

The US housing market’s sharp downturn has been bad for builders, flippers and almost anyone who had plans to sell a home when rising mortgage rates shut down the pandemic buying frenzy.

The slump has been especially harsh for Opendoor Technologies Inc., pioneer of a data-driven spin on home-flipping known as iBuying.