{"id":2131,"date":"2021-03-19T18:10:41","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T18:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.realtrends.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/19\/spencer-rascoff-spac-to-take-ibuyer-offerpad-public\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T02:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T02:37:07","slug":"spencer-rascoff-spac-to-take-ibuyer-offerpad-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtrends.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/19\/spencer-rascoff-spac-to-take-ibuyer-offerpad-public\/","title":{"rendered":"Spencer Rascoff SPAC to take iBuyer Offerpad public"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Savor the irony: A blank-check company started by Spencer Rascoff is bringing an iBuyer, Offerpad, public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Offerpad<\/strong>, a Phoenix-based company, said Thursday that it was bought by a Rascoff-controlled special purpose acquisition company, named <strong>Supernova Partners Acquisition Company<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Supernova Partners <\/strong>will shepherd Offerpad onto the New York Stock Exchange, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/offerpad-a-leading-tech-enabled-real-estate-solutions-platform-announces-plans-to-become-publicly-traded-via-merger-with-supernova-partners-acquisition-company-301250228.html\">press release<\/a>. The deal will provide the iBuyer with \u201cup to $650 million in gross cash proceeds,\u201d per the release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Offerpad will also receive a $200 million commitment from private equity investors such as BlackRock and Zimmer Partners. And the deal pledges $50 million from \u201cSupernova affiliates\u201d and \u201cup to $403 million of cash held in the trust account of Supernova.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The seven-year-old Offerpad \u2013 founded by the company\u2019s present CEO Brian Bair \u2013 describes itself as a lean operation looking to accelerate growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-vivid-red-background-color has-vivid-red-color\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.housingwire.com\/articles\/how-2020-exposed-a-greater-need-for-collaboration-between-real-estate-agents-and-los\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Real estate agents and LOs: the great collaboration<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Technology has given consumers the power of choice and expedited the entire real estate purchasing process. Successful agents, brokerages and loan officers of the future are going to rely significantly on technology to find, nurture and engage with buyers and sellers while also playing an expanding role as personal advisors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-presented-by-propertybase\"><strong>Presented by: Propertybase<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-vivid-red-background-color has-vivid-red-color\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOfferpad\u2019s experienced tech and real estate leadership team created a highly efficient ibuying business, while raising less capital than competitors,\u201d the release reads. CrunchBase data says Offerpad <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/offerpad\">raised $155 million<\/a> prior to Thursday\u2019s announcement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rascoff is the co-founder of <strong>Zillow<\/strong>, but he departed as company CEO in early 2019, replaced by another company co-founder, Rich Barton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/samanthasharf\/2019\/02\/21\/zillow-ceo-spencer-rascoff-out-amid-pivot-to-buying-and-selling-homes\/?sh=26b731d43c8a\">reported reason<\/a> for Rascoff\u2019s exit was  \u2013&nbsp;get ready \u2013 that he did not do enough to grow Zillow\u2019s iBuying program, Zillow Offers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under Barton, Zillow has since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.housingwire.com\/articles\/where-real-estate-agents-fit-into-zillows-grand-vision\/\">pivoted hard<\/a> to iBuying. He has said not doing so would represent an &#8220;existential crisis.&#8221; The majority of the company\u2019s 2020 revenue and expenses came from Zillow Offers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since leaving Zillow several years ago, Rascoff has had multiple business forays including starting a Los Angeles-based journalism company that covers tech, dot.LA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also launched two other special purpose acquisition companies, neither of which has yet found a partner to take public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Offerpad, meanwhile, plans to go public less than one year after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.housingwire.com\/tag\/opendoor\/\">OpenDoor<\/a>, another instant homebuying platform, started trading on <strong>Nasdaq<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff, who departed as the giant pivoted to iBuying, is taking rival iBuyer Offerpad public via one of his SPACs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16592,"featured_media":4822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3255],"tags":[],"coauthors":[736],"class_list":["post-2131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v26.8) - 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