Thanks @daveambrose. Hello Hunters! Knock offers a radical new way to sell a home quickly without risk and uncertainty. Homes are our largest purchase and most valuable asset, but they are also the most difficult and expensive to buy and sell. 2.5 million home buyers a year must sell their current home quickly to get the down payment and mortgage for their new home. If they don't sell in time they lose the new home to another buyer, lose their kids' place at a new school, job opportunities and deposits, to name a few. Knock guarantees homeowners that we can sell their home in less than 6 weeks or we buy it ourselves for market price. We guarantee homebuyers that our homes are rock solid with our 200-point home-inspection, certification and extended warranty. Knock uses data science to price homes accurately, technology to sell them online quickly and a dedicated team of professionals to guide you every step of the way.
@seanblack@daveambrose As someone who recently sold a house, this is a great idea. I'm curious - How do you decide what market price is for a house if you can't sell it in 6 weeks?
Thanks @sbyrnes! The data science that determines the market price is part of our IP. We obviously put a lot of resources into automated valuation models (AVMs) at Trulia and Zillow (aka the Zestimate). But those models are limited by the fact that they never put eyes on the property. At Knock, we do an in-person inspection of every home that provides 200 proprietary data points never before used to price homes. If our algorithm is wrong we buy the property after 6 weeks, so we are very motivated to make it world class:-)
@sam__cash I think you mean OpenDoor, as Nextdoor is the social network. First, Knock pays to promote your home on the open market for 6 weeks to attract multiple offers and maximize your price. This gives the seller confidence they got the highest price possible driven by the market, not us. This ensures we are aligned with the sellers' best interest. With Opendoor you can only consider their price in isolation without running a competitive process that oftentimes drives the price higher. Opendoor ultimately takes 15-20% of the sale price in order to buy the house outright: 6% Service Cost, 3-6% Market Risk Charge and they purchase the home 5-10% below the price they ultimately sell it for if you look at public records. We charge a flat 6% success fee, equal to the traditional listing commission. Most homeowners aren't so desperate to sell that they need to give up 15-20% of the value of their home. Most homeowners just need a guaranteed price and sale date for their home so they can make an offer a new one, put deposits down on schools, furniture, the moving truck etc without worrying their house won't sell in time. We believe the current cost of selling a home is already way too expensive. But we are offering a lot more convenience and certainty than traditional listings while building the technology necessary to put this incredibly laborious, inefficient and mostly offline process completely online and make it as automated as possible. As we do, we will attack more of the cost of selling a home at every point in the transaction.
@seanblack founder of Opendoor here. This is not true. Our average total service charge is 8.5% with over 1/3 of our homes having 6-7% total fees, and that proportion is increasing. On top of that, we don't offer below market price (we track very closely). Our resale delta you cite is likely accounted for in repairs and upgrades we invest.
@seanblack Thanks. Was admittedly surprised you'd get those numbers so off given the amount of time your team spent on Opendoor.com getting inspiration 😂
@justindross we are actually going by public record data, which doesn't jive with the numbers you mentioned or publish on Opendoor.com. Public records show Opendoor selling homes for a pretty decent premium above the price at which it buys them from homeowners. It's only fair to assume that homeowners are giving up the difference.
Cool to see another competitor to Opendoor in the market, w. Knock focused first on the greater Atlanta metro area. Buying and selling a home is one of the most frustrating and time-intensive processes in our lives, so services like these are really fantastic for consumers.
I was a huge fan of @seanblack's Crunched platform for sales teams a few years ago but looks like he's getting back into real estate w. Knock alongside @jamieglenn.
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