CaliberCos(CWD -28.79%) reported second quarter 2025 results on August 5, 2025, delivering a platform adjusted EBITDA loss of $54,000, compared to a $2.5 million loss in the second quarter of 2024 (non-GAAP) on essentially flat revenues. Managed capital increased to $498 million, while significant cost reductions, and a sharpened focus on hospitality, multifamily, and multitenant verticals emerged as key strategic pivots. This summary highlights material developments in deconsolidation efforts, capital structure management, and tangible progress on high-impact real estate projects.
Cost discipline rapidly improves CaliberCos profitability
Platform expenses fell 35% year-over-year to $5.3 million, and average headcount dropped 36% compared to the second quarter of 2024, reflecting decisive implementation of cost reduction plans over the second quarter of 2025. This operational tightening narrowed the adjusted platform EBITDA loss by 98% compared to the second quarter of 2024, supporting management’s target for 25% EBITDA margins on a sustainable basis.
"Total platform expenses in Q2 were $5.3 million, a decrease of 35% compared to last year's Q2 of $8.2 million, primarily due to a decrease in operating costs related to payroll and payroll editing expenses. Average employee headcount decreased 36% from those two quarters as part of our continued comprehensive cost-saving initiatives to return Caliber to profitability. These impacts on our performance translate to platform adjusted EBITDA loss for the second quarter of $54,000 compared to platform adjusted EBITDA loss of $2.5 million during the same period a year ago."
-- Jade Miao, Chief Financial Officer
These cost reductions demonstrate management’s ability to execute on efficiency initiatives, which materially improve the company’s path to profitability and support its long-term margin objectives.
CaliberCos advances asset-light model and capital discipline
Since its IPO, CaliberCos has deconsolidated 11 assets and recently eliminated Doubletree by Hilton debt guarantees, simplifying its balance sheet and increasing financial flexibility. Concurrently, the company executed multiple debt refinancing efforts and preferred equity raises, backstopping liquidity with a $25 million equity line despite a $2.3 million impairment charge recognized in the second quarter of 2025.
"On May 9, 2025, the company completed a refinance of the existing debt of the Doubletree by Hilton next to the Tucson Convention Center. With the refinancing of this loan, Caliber no longer guarantees the debt of the asset, and as a result, is no longer required to include it in our consolidated balance sheet at June 30, 2025. Caliber had aggregated and reported the results of operations of this asset in consolidated fund revenues and consolidated fund expenses within the accompanying condensed consolidated statements of operations through the date of deconsolidation, which was, in this case, May 9. Since Caliber went public, we have deconsolidated a total of 11 assets, and we have two remaining assets that we plan to deconsolidate in the future when the opportunity presents itself."
-- Jade Miao, Chief Financial Officer
Progress de-risking the balance sheet and building a scalable, asset-light platform lowers creditor risk, enhances transparency, and positions CaliberCos for capital-efficient growth.
Strategic hospitality partnerships expand future AUM for CaliberCos
The exclusive development rights agreement withHyatt Hotels(NYSE:H) spans five U.S. states: Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, Texas, and Louisiana, with three sites already in escrow, and the first four hotels are expected to add approximately $100 million to assets under management (AUM). These projects are expected to generate approximately $4 million in one-time fees, and about $700,000 in annualized recurring asset management revenue, creating both immediate and future monetization opportunities.
"In the second quarter, Caliber announced that it entered a development rights agreement with an affiliate of Hyatt Hotels Corporation to develop 15 new Hyatt Studios hotels. Under the terms of the agreement, Caliber Hospitality Development received exclusive development rights for future development of Hyatt Studios hotels in target market areas within Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, Texas, and Louisiana. As of today, Caliber has placed three sites in escrow to purchase and develop into Hyatt Studios hotels. The first is in Georgetown, Texas, a suburb of the Austin Metropolitan Area and the fastest-growing city of its size for the last three years in the United States. The second site is adjacent to Taiwan Semiconductor or TSMC's $165 billion semiconductor fabrication facility in Phoenix, Arizona. The third site is located in Steamboat, Colorado, a highly attractive destination market with significant barriers to entry. We hope to close on these three acquisitions through the end of this year, adding them to the existing sites we own vis-a-vis our Opportunity Zone funds near Scottsdale, Arizona."
-- Chris Loeffler, Chief Executive Officer
Securing a development pipeline with a major hospitality brand in undersupplied, high-growth markets positions CaliberCos to expand recurring fee income, and enhance its brand equity.
Looking Ahead
Management reaffirmed the company’s goal of achieving positive adjusted EBITDA (non-GAAP) in the second half of 2025, driven by full realization of recent cost savings and expanding wholesale fundraising initiatives. Platform AUM is expected to increase by approximately $100 million with the addition of the initial four Hyatt Studios hotels (non-GAAP), while annual fundraising capacity targets remain at $200 million. No new quantitative guidance was disclosed for revenue or net income, but leadership expects margin improvements and stronger operating leverage into the fourth quarter of 2025 and beyond.
