Disclosing losses of more than $550 million on homes purchased in the second half of this year, Zillow is calling it quits on the home-flipping business.
Zillow Group Inc. is calling it quits on the home-flipping business, while disclosing losses of more than $550 million on homes purchased in the second half of this year for which the company admits it paid too much.
“We’ve determined the unpredictability in forecasting home prices far exceeds what we anticipated and continuing to scale Zillow Offers would result in too much earnings and balance-sheet volatility,” Zillow Group Z, -10.24% ZG, -11.52% co-founder and Chief Executive Rich Barton said in a statement. The dissolving of the flipping business will take several quarters and include a reduction of Zillow’s workforce by approximately 25%, Barton said. Zillow disclosed that it wrote down $304 million in losses due to houses purchased for too high a price in the third quarter, and expects losses of $240 million to $265 million in the fourth quarter for the same reason, pushing total losses on those houses to more than $550 billion.
Shares fell 10% in extended trading following Zillow’s announcement of a net loss of $328.2 million, or $1.29 a share, compared with net income of $39.6 million in the year-ago quarter. Revenue rose 164% to $1.74 billion from a year ago. Analysts surveyed by FactSet had expected net income of 16 cents a share on revenue of $2 billion.
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