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Better Home & Finance Holding Co (BETR) Business

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Item 1. Business

The Business Combination

On August 22, 2023, we consummated the transactions contemplated by the Agreement and Plan of Merger (as amended, the “Merger Agreement”), by and among Aurora Acquisition Corp. (“Aurora”), Better Holdco, Inc. (“Pre-Business Combination Better”), and Aurora Merger Sub I, Inc., formerly a wholly owned subsidiary of Aurora (“Business Combination”). In connection with the closing of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, the Company’s Class A common stock and Warrants began trading on the Nasdaq Global Market and Nasdaq Capital Market, respectively, under the ticker symbols “BETR” and BETRW.” On March 13, 2024, the listing of the Company’s Class A common stock and warrants transferred from the Nasdaq Global Market to the Nasdaq Capital Market.

Unless otherwise indicated, references to “Better,” “Better Home & Finance,” the “Company,” “we,” “us,” “our” and other similar terms refer to (i) Pre-Business Combination Better and its consolidated subsidiaries prior to the closing of the Business Combination and (ii) Better Home & Finance and its consolidated subsidiaries following the closing of the Business Combination.

Overview

We are a technology-enabled homeownership company that offers mortgage, home equity, and other homeownership products through a digital platform. Our services are designed to support customers across key stages of the homeownership cycle including purchase, ownership, refinance, and sale. Founded in 2015, we built our business with a technology-first approach. Our proprietary platform supports both consumer-facing offerings and offerings provided to third-party strategic partners and is designed to scale across products, channels, and market conditions.

The home is among the world’s largest, oldest, and most tangible asset classes and yet, while other industries are undergoing end-to-end digital transformations, the homeownership journey remains mired in legacy inefficiencies. High transaction costs, regulatory complexity, and sprawling intermediary stack come at the expense of the consumer, leading to frustration and impeding digital adoption. The homeownership experience is unnecessarily slow, convoluted, and analog; in sum, we believe it is broken.

Our advanced technology stack, which we call Tinman®, enables us to deliver on what we believe is most important for our customers: a seamless experience, time saved, and higher certainty on the single biggest financial decision of their lives.

For the year ended December 31, 2025, our Funded Loan Volume was $4.7 billion, compared to $3.6 billion for the year ended December 31, 2024, representing a year-over-year increase of approximately 32%. Our revenue was $164.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2025, compared to $108.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, representing a year-over-year increase of approximately 52%. We recorded a net loss of $165.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2025, compared to a net loss of $206.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, representing a 20% year-over-year decrease.

Our Products and Services

We offer a range of products and services designed to support the homeownership lifecycle. These include consumer-facing mortgage and related homeownership products, as well as technology-enabled offerings provided to third-party strategic partners. Our offerings are supported by our proprietary technology platform, Tinman, which enables digital delivery, automation, and integration across these activities.

Home Finance

Home Finance offers a range of residential mortgage loan products for home purchase and refinance, including cash-out refinance and debt consolidation, and home equity, across various maturities and interest rate structures. Our offerings include GSE-conforming loans, Federal Housing Administration (“FHA”) insured loans, Department of Veterans Affairs (“VA”) guaranteed loans, and jumbo loans.

We sell the mortgage loans we originate into a network of loan purchasers, including GSEs, banks, insurance companies, asset managers, and mortgage real estate investment trusts, and we earn revenue upon the sale of each loan. The majority of the loans we originate conform to the underwriting standards of Fannie Mae and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (“Freddie Mac”).

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As of December 31, 2025, we were licensed to originate mortgage loans in all 50 states and the District of Columbia across a range of credit and income profiles. In addition to first-lien mortgage products, we offer home equity lines of credit and closed-end second-lien loans to enable customers to access equity in their homes.

Tinman AI Platform

The Tinman AI Platform (“Tinman”) includes access to our proprietary technology in connection with mortgage origination activities, including technology-enabled underwriting, loan processing, compliance support, capital markets connectivity, and related back-office functionality. In certain arrangements, partners integrate Tinman into their existing internal digital operations to support mortgage origination activities and pay fees to the Company based on funded loans processed through the platform.

In other arrangements, Tinman is integrated into a strategic partner’s customer-facing application or workflow, and we originate mortgage loans directly using our Home Finance products for the partner’s customers. The scope, pricing structure and responsibilities under these arrangements vary by partner.

Better Plus

We complement our residential mortgage loan products through Better Plus, which includes a set of non-mortgage homeownership products and services offered primarily through third-party strategic partners. These offerings include referrals to real estate agents, title insurance and settlement services provided through third-party providers, and access to homeowners insurance policies through a digital marketplace of insurance partners. In these arrangements, we generally act as an agent or referral source and receive fees from third-party providers. Better Plus products are integrated into our platform to support customers throughout the homeownership process.

International Lending & Services

Through our U.K. subsidiary, Birmingham Bank, and related U.K. homeownership businesses, we offer residential mortgage and related financial products to customers in the United Kingdom. Our U.K. operations utilize a technology-first approach to address a market we believe is similarly encumbered by legacy inefficiencies. We are in the process of exiting our non-core international operations.

Our Technology

Our products and services are supported by Tinman and our voice-based AI assistant, Betsy. Tinman is a digital loan origination and workflow platform that uses AI and automation to integrate customer-facing applications, internal operational tools, and third-party systems to support mortgage origination and related homeownership services. Betsy assists customers with mortgage application inquiries and the collection of required application information and is designed to interact directly with customers as part of the loan origination process and to support more efficient completion of application workflows.

Tinman serves as the system of record for our Home Finance, Platform Services, and Better Plus offerings. The platform aggregates customer and property data from direct user input and third-party sources through application programming interfaces (“APIs”), applies automated decisioning and rules-based logic, and orchestrates workflows across underwriting, processing, and closing activities. Tinman also supports pricing, document generation, task assignment, and connectivity with loan purchasers.

Tinman’s automated decisioning and workflow engine supports internal operations by collecting and processing data, coordinating tasks between customers and team members, and guiding mortgage transactions from application through closing, including through the use of third-party software where applicable. The platform also supports the matching of originated loans with loan purchasers based on applicable criteria. Through this approach, Tinman standardizes and automates portions of the loan production process, while maintaining appropriate human review.

Customers interact with Tinman primarily through digital interfaces to submit information, complete required tasks, review loan options, and access related homeownership products. In parallel, Tinman coordinates operational workflows by completing certain tasks through automation and routing other tasks to team members for review or completion. While we expect to continue to invest in automation and AI-enabled capabilities, portions of our loan production process require human involvement.

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Distribution Channels

We reach our customers through two primary channels: (1) direct-to-consumer (D2C); and our (2) platform channel.

Under our D2C distribution channel, customers engage directly with Better through our website and complete the mortgage process under the Better Home & Finance brand. Customer relationships in this channel are initiated through performance-based digital marketing and other online media, with prospective borrowers directed to our platform to explore mortgage options and begin the application process.

Under our platform distribution channel, we engage with borrowers through third-party partners as well as through our in-market originations business. In both cases, Tinman is used as the underlying technology platform to support mortgage origination activities. Our previous Retail channel has been consolidated under the Platform channel.

In partner arrangements, third parties use Tinman to support their existing mortgage operations or to establish new mortgage origination capabilities. Depending on the structure of the arrangement, we may provide out Tinman technology, underwriting, processing, and related operational services, or we may originate mortgage loans directly using our Home Finance products for our strategic partners’ customers.

Tinman also supports our in-market originations business (previously referred to as our retail business), where mortgage demand is sourced primarily through referral- and relationship-based channels rather than direct-to-consumer marketing. Across both partner and in-market originations, our platform provides automated workflow, underwriting, and loan manufacturing capabilities that support mortgage origination at scale.

Our Competitive Strengths

We believe we have a number of competitive advantages that contribute to our success. We aim to provide our customers with superior experience and a wide selection of products to navigate their homeownership journey. We believe that lowering loan manufacturing costs and scaling our ecosystem will enable us to deliver increased value to our customers and contribute to our mission.

•Superior Customer Experience. Our customers use our integrated platform to seamlessly navigate the homeownership journey. Tinman enables our customers to interact with us on their schedule, allowing us to meet our customers where they are, be it digitally on our platform, or by phone, text, or email, 24/7. Our goal is to surface the most updated interest rates to our customers , and our tools provide them with flexibility to evaluate Home Finance and Better Plus products in real time as they move through our customer workflow.

•Highly Scalable Platform in Breadth and Depth. Tinman provides the backbone of our homeownership products, using the same technology regardless of customer, channel or loan type. We have built Tinman to support significant, rapid growth in volumes. In addition to our platform being able to scale mortgage volume quickly, we believe our technology enables us to achieve broad scale across multiple homeownership products as well. Our platform is modular in nature and new products and partners can be added seamlessly using the same core code and systems architecture.

•Labor Cost. We are working to re-engineer traditionally complex, manual and highly specialized loan workflows into simple tasks that can be partially completed through automation or with unspecialized lower-cost labor. Our digital platform orchestrates each transaction and simplifies the mortgage workflow to reduce complex tasks. Tinman aims to make our loan manufacturing team members more productive than the competition at a lower cost. We believe we can complete many of our transactions at a lower production labor cost per unit, seeking to pass savings on to our customers.

•Data Advantage. We operate in a fully-digital environment allowing us to track and analyze all workflows to optimize customer experience and operational efficiency. We frequently use data to improve our customer experience and maximize conversion. On the customer side, we capture up to 10,000 data points per customer during the loan transaction process. This enables us to save customers time and money by removing friction from manual re-entry of personal details and details on their home captured through the loan origination and appraisal process, reducing fatigue from dealing with numerous providers, offering them a combination of tailored products through our expanding homeownership platform.

•Limited Credit Exposure. Our business model is to manufacture loans to sell to our marketplace of secondary investors and partners, and we do not seek to retain assets for long periods of time. With every loan we produce, we aim to sell the loan and associated MSRs into our network of purchasers and not permanently retain loans or

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MSRs on our balance sheet as part of our business model. As of December 31, 2025, we had no material MSRs on our balance sheet. Substantially all of the loans we produced, excluding home equity lines of credit, were conforming with GSE-guaranteed takeout, providing access to liquidity for our loans across market cycles. For jumbo loans, which are not GSE eligible, we enter into sale agreements with purchasers prior to lock, thereby limiting balance sheet exposure and credit risk for non-conforming loans.

Our Growth Strategies

We were launched with the mission of making homeownership better, faster and cheaper for all. We believe we can grow by enhancing our customer experience, expanding our customer base and providing additional products and services.

•Diversified Distribution Strategy. We seek to expand our mortgage origination capabilities by diversifying our distribution channels beyond direct-to-consumer digital marketing. While we continue to serve customers who prefer a fully digital, self-directed experience, we are also focused on reaching customers through partner relationships and locally oriented origination channels that emphasize referral- and relationship-based engagement.

We believe that different customer segments prefer different modes of interaction, particularly in purchase transactions, and that a multi-channel distribution approach enables us to meet customers where they are most comfortable transacting. We leverage Tinman to support these additional distribution channels by providing a centralized technology and fulfillment platform that enables consistent underwriting, processing, and operational execution across distribution models.

This approach is intended to broaden our reach, support purchase market growth, and enable scalable origination across a wider range of customer acquisition pathways.

•Conversion. We seek to drive growth by improving the conversion of prospective customers into funded loans through continued enhancements to operational efficiency, customer experience, and product offerings. We are focused on supporting customers earlier in the homeownership journey through improved customer engagement and technology-enabled workflows. In addition, by further automating elements of the loan manufacturing process, we aim to reduce friction and processing time, which may support improved customer outcomes and conversion rates.

•Enhance Technology Innovation. Our technology strategy is to fully automate the manual aspects of the homeownership process, allowing our team to focus on what people do best, building customer relationships. We will continue to invest to remove points of customer friction, making our technology more efficient and scalable as we continue to grow and add new products, further driving down our labor costs through automation.

•Customer Acquisition. We believe we have ample room to reach additional customers through data-driven marketing. We see growth opportunities to reach customers by further penetrating both existing and new performance marketing (pay-per-click) and digital media channels. Additionally, growth in organic traffic and maintaining and contacting our existing network of customers who may be eligible to transact are significant opportunities.

•Broadening U.S. Geographic and Product Coverage. We seek to expand our addressable market by increasing the availability of our products and services across the United States, subject to applicable licensing and regulatory requirements. While we are licensed in many jurisdictions, we do not currently offer all products in all locations. We plan to continue investing in infrastructure and compliance capabilities to broaden geographic coverage and expand our loan product offerings, including government-insured and non-agency products, as well as selected non-mortgage homeownership services, based on market demand.

Risk Management & Compliance

We have a strong culture around risk management and compliance and believe our technology-driven processes and digital infrastructure help us to mitigate risks within our business.

Our legal and compliance teams work hand-in-hand with our business teams to ensure that we remain up to date on regulatory requirements, and that these requirements are met as new products and services are added. We prioritize strategic thinking about how best to protect the interests of the consumer, particularly since we are building a digitally native system in an industry that has traditionally been analog.

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We believe our integrated platform contributes to our ability to mitigate exposure to risk. Since Tinman tracks thousands of data points across each loan file, we are able to maintain a robust audit trail and support compliance with applicable state-specific and federal regulations across customer contact, pricing, underwriting and quality control. Throughout the loan process, we use third-party data that is pulled directly into our system via API to verify income, assets and other client information. We believe this data-focused approach results in lower delinquency and forbearance compared to the overall industry.

Our compliance program is kept current by our internal compliance team, whose members track regulatory updates, conduct thorough reviews of policies and procedures, investigate consumer complaints and other compliance incidents, and monitor the licensing and education requirements of our team members. The company employs dedicated associates within the compliance team that manage regulatory reporting and examination, helping us meet submission deadlines and respond to regulators in a timely manner. Additionally, the compliance team proactively audits and monitors various aspects of our origination process and initiates any necessary coaching and remediation measures. This team also takes an active role in the onboarding and ongoing monitoring of strategic partners, third-party providers in our Better Plus marketplace, and new loan purchasers on our platform by assessing risk and reviewing applicable documentation. Through our internal compliance team, we proactively monitor the reporting and revision of these processes and procedures to mitigate risk.

We believe that we mitigate our execution risk by having a robust network of purchasers of loans and servicing rights, including the ability to sell conforming and FHA loans to the GSEs with guaranteed takeout. For jumbo loans, which are not GSE eligible, we enter into sale agreements with purchasers prior to lock to minimize our balance sheet exposure. We manufacture loans to meet the specific criteria of our loan purchasers, and our systems enable us to swiftly adapt to any changes in the guidelines of our counterparties.

Our capital markets team helps mitigate interest rate risk in our loan production business by executing appropriate hedging trades between the time of interest rate lock and loan commitment to an investor. We institute different strategies depending on market conditions to provide our customers with attractive rates and promote the stability of our loan production pipeline and our liquidity. Our sources of liquidity include loan funding warehouse facilities, the loans we produce in conformity with GSE-guaranteed takeout, as well as cash on hand. As of December 31, 2025, we had three warehouse lines of credit in different amounts and with various maturities, with an aggregate available amount of $575.0 million.

We operate under hedging policies designed to mitigate the effects of any fluctuations in interest rates, and analyze our pull-through rates along the loan lifecycle and calibrate our hedging activity as market conditions change.

Our Competitors

We face competition across multiple aspects of the homeownership and mortgage origination process, including mortgage lending, real estate services, insurance offerings, and technology-enabled mortgage operations.

In our Home Finance business, we compete primarily with traditional banks and depository institutions, non-bank mortgage lenders, credit unions, and smaller regional and local lenders. Some of these competitors have greater brand recognition, access to lower-cost funding sources, or broader customer relationships through other financial products.

In our Tinman AI Platform business, we compete with mortgage technology providers and loan origination system (“LOS”) platforms that offer software and workflow tools to lenders and mortgage operators, as well as with service providers that offer outsourced underwriting, processing, or fulfillment capabilities. These competitors may include established mortgage technology platforms with large installed customer bases.

Across our businesses, competition is influenced by factors such as pricing, product breadth, service levels, customer experience, speed of execution, regulatory compliance capabilities, and the ability to integrate technology with operational execution. The regulatory environment for mortgage origination, including licensing and compliance requirements, creates barriers to entry for new participants but also imposes ongoing costs and constraints on our operations.

Our Intellectual Property

We use a combination of proprietary and third-party intellectual property. We rely on a combination of trade secrets, trademarks, Internet domain names and other forms of intellectual property, and on contractual agreements, to establish, maintain and protect our intellectual property rights and technology. We also license certain third-party technology for use in conjunction with our products.

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We believe that our success depends on hiring and retaining highly capable and innovative team members, especially as it relates to our engineering base. It is our policy that all of our team members and independent contractors sign agreements acknowledging that all inventions, trade secrets, works of authorship, developments, processes and other forms of intellectual property generated by them on our behalf are our property and assigning to us any ownership that they may otherwise have in those works. Despite our precautions, it may be possible for third parties to obtain and use without consent intellectual property that we own or license. In addition, certain of our technology, including data feeds used in Tinman, are currently owned by entities affiliated with our CEO, other executives and employees. Unauthorized use of our intellectual property by third parties, and the expenses incurred in protecting our intellectual property rights, may materially and adversely affect our business.

Government Regulations

We operate in a heavily regulated industry that is highly focused on consumer protection. The extensive regulatory framework to which we are subject includes U.S. federal, state and local laws, including various regulations and rules. Governmental authorities and various U.S. federal and state agencies have broad oversight and supervisory authority over all of our business lines. In addition, as a result of our operations in the United Kingdom, we are subject to additional regulation over parts of our business including by the Prudential Regulatory Authority of the Bank of England and the Financial Conduct Authority.

We incur significant ongoing costs to comply with the licensing and other legal requirements under the Secure and Fair Enforcement for Mortgage Licensing Act of 2008 (the” SAFE Act”) and the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (“Dodd-Frank Act”), among other federal statutes. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”), established under the Dodd-Frank Act, directly and significantly influences the regulation of residential mortgage loan originations. The CFPB has rulemaking authority with respect to many of the federal consumer protection laws applicable to mortgage originators and servicers, including the Truth in Lending Act (“TILA”), Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (“RESPA”), Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”), and Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (“FDCPA”).

We are also supervised by regulatory agencies under U.S. state law. From time to time, we receive examination requests from the states in which we are licensed that require us to provide records, documents and information relating to our business operations. State attorneys general, state mortgage and real estate licensing regulators, state insurance departments, and state and local consumer protection offices have authority to investigate consumer complaints and to commence investigations and other formal and informal proceedings regarding our operations and activities.

We also are subject to a variety of regulatory and contractual obligations imposed by credit owners, insurers and guarantors of the loans we produce or facilitate and/or service. This includes, but is not limited to, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (“FHFA”), the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (“HUD”), the FHA and the VA. Regulatory standards set by these entities may change in ways that impact our business. In addition, we are subject to periodic reviews and audits by the GSEs, the FHA, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”), non-agency securitization trustees and others. This broad and extensive supervisory and enforcement oversight will continue to occur in the future. We also may be subject to judicial and administrative decisions that impose requirements and restrictions on our business. As a highly regulated business, the regulatory and legal requirements we face can change and may even become more restrictive. In turn, this could make our compliance responsibilities more complex.

Federal Laws and Regulations

We are subject to a several U.S. federal regulatory consumer protection laws including, but not limited to, RESPA and Regulation X, TILA, the Home Ownership and Equity Protection Act of 1994 (“HOEPA”), Regulation Z, the TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosure (“TRID”) rules, the FCRA and Regulation V, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act and Regulation B, the Homeowners Protection Act, the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (“HMDA”) and Regulation C, the Fair Housing Act, the FDCPA, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (the “GLBA”) and Regulation P, the Bank Secrecy Act (“BSA”) and related regulations, the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act, the SAFE Act, the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act and similar state laws, particularly the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, the Electronic Fund Transfer Act of 1978 and Regulation E, the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, the Federal Trade Commission Act, the FTC Credit Practices Rules and the FTC Telemarketing Sales Rule, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”), the Mortgage Acts and Practices Advertising Rule, Regulation N, the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act (the “CAN-SPAM Act”), the Consumer Financial Protection Act.

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State Laws and Regulations

Because we are not a depository institution, we must comply with state licensing requirements to conduct our business. We incur significant ongoing costs to comply with these licensing requirements. To conduct our residential mortgage lending and servicing operations in the United States, we are licensed in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Our real estate brokerage, title agency, and homeowners insurance agency also maintain licenses to operate in certain of these states. Generally, the licensing process includes the submission and approval of an application to the applicable state agency, a character and fitness review of key individuals, and an administrative review of our business operations. Such requirements occur at the initial stage of license acquisition and throughout the period of licensure.

Under the SAFE Act, all states have laws that require mortgage loan originators employed by non-depository institutions to be individually licensed to offer mortgage loan products.

In addition to applicable federal laws and regulations governing our operations, our ability to produce and service loans in any particular state is subject to that state’s laws, regulations and licensing requirements. State laws often include fee limitations and disclosure and other requirements. These laws have required us to devote considerable resources to building and maintaining automated systems to perform loan-by-loan analysis of points, fees and other factors set forth in the laws, which often vary depending on the location of the mortgaged property.

Our business is also subject to state laws, related to mobile-and internet-based businesses, data privacy, disclosures and advertising laws. Together, these state laws impact our communication and data processing practices and policies, which, in turn, results in substantial compliance-related costs and expenses.

Our Better Plus businesses, such as our real estate brokerage, title agency, and homeowners insurance agency, are also subject to state laws that may require licensure and prohibit, limit, or require approval to engage in certain conduct. For example, several states have implemented laws and regulations aimed at prohibiting certain payments and other inducements associated with referrals to or from title insurance agents or corporations. In some instances, these requirements are more expansive than RESPA, rendering useless exemptions an entity would rely on for purposes of RESPA compliance.

Our Team Members and Human Capital Management

As of December 31, 2025, we had approximately 1,329 team members, of which approximately 869 were located in the United States, approximately 426 were located in India and approximately 34 were located in the United Kingdom. At such time, approximately 845 Better Home & Finance team members worked in U.S. mortgage production roles, of which approximately 591 were located in the United States and approximately 254 in India. Our intention remains to scale our India based team to avail ourselves of the large mortgage talent pool and favorable labor cost arbitrage. Further, we are exploring additional third-party business process outsourcing relationships to provide additional capacity, some variable, as well as enhanced disaster recovery capability. Additionally, approximately 151 team members worked in Better Plus business lines, primarily as real estate and insurance agents and support professionals. Approximately 77 team members worked in technology and product development, of which the majority were located in the United States. None of our employees are represented by a labor union or covered by collective bargaining agreements.

We have made efforts to promote an inclusive and respectful culture. Paula Tuffin, our General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer and Secretary, leads the Management, Ethics & Compliance Committee (the “MECC”). The MECC is comprised of members of the senior leadership team and manages ethics and compliance issues at the Company, reporting directly to the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”). We have also implemented a company-wide training program to promote a respectful workplace and conduct anonymous engagement surveys.

Cyclicality and Seasonality

The consumer lending market and the associated loan origination volumes for mortgage loans are influenced by general economic conditions, including the prevailing interest rate environment, unemployment rates, home price appreciation and consumer confidence. Seasonality also has an influence, as home sales typically rise in the second and third quarters, with reduced activity in the first and fourth quarters, as home buyers tend to purchase their homes during the spring and summer in order to move to a new home before the start of the school year.

Available Information and Website Disclosure

Our website address is www.better.com. We make available free of charge through our website our annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K, proxy statements, registration statements and

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amendments to those reports filed or furnished pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (“Exchange Act”), as soon as reasonably practicable after we electronically file such material with, or furnish them to the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). The SEC maintains a website that contains reports, proxy statements and other information regarding issuers that file electronically with the SEC. These materials may be obtained electronically by accessing the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.

Investors and others should note that we announce material financial and operational information to our investors using press releases, SEC filings and public conference calls and webcasts, and by postings on our investor relations site at investors.better.com. We may also use our website as a distribution channel for material Company information. In addition, you may automatically receive email alerts and other information about Better when you enroll your email address by visiting the “Investor Email Alerts” option under the Resources tab on investors.better.com. References to our website or other links to our publications or other information are provided for the convenience of our stockholders. None of the information or data included on our websites or accessible at these links is incorporated into, and will not be deemed to be a part of, this Annual Report or any of our other filings with the SEC.