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BOXABL Moves to Own the Mortgage: Proposed Lending Venture…

The Nasdaq-listed homebuilder plans to bring financing in-house with Warp Speed Holdings — aiming to turn more interested buyers into closed sales and open new streams of lending revenue.LAS VEGAS, Nov. 10, 2026 — BOXABL Inc. (Nasdaq: BXBL) wants to do for modular housing what captive finance arms did for the auto industry: put the loan right next to the product.The Las Vegas-based company behind the Casita and the Baby Box has signed a nonbinding letter of intent with Warp Speed Holdings to form a mortgage lending joint venture, with a target launch in early 2027, subject to definitive agreements and regulatory requirements.The move goes straight at the single biggest drag on factory-built housing: financing.

The financing gap is the real constraint

BOXABL can build homes on a production line. The mortgage market, however, was designed around site-built construction. A factory-built home moves through land purchase, site preparation, manufacturing, delivery and installation — a sequence that conventional loan products often do not fit cleanly. For buyers, that mismatch can mean delays, extra steps and deals that stall before they close.The demand is clearly there. California, the country’s most closely watched accessory dwelling unit market, issued a record of nearly 42,000 ADU permits in 2025, according to Annual Progress Report data from the California Department of Housing and Community Development. Yet the way those units get paid for shows how underserved the market is: in a UC Berkeley Center for Community Innovation survey of 800 California homeowners who built ADUs, 62% paid for them at least partly with cash savings or money from friends or family. For a company selling a product built to be an ADU, that points to a large pool of motivated buyers held back by the financing step.

Financing at the front of the funnel

The proposed platform would move financing to the start of BOXABL’s sales process. Prospective customers could see their borrowing capacity, estimated monthly payments and available loan options before they buy, rather than discovering a financing problem after they have already committed.Planned products include construction-to-permanent loans that could cover land, site improvements, manufacturing, delivery, installation and the permanent mortgage, as applicable, in a single financing path. The venture also expects to explore rate buydowns and to serve a broad customer base: homeowners adding a Casita as an ADU, primary-residence buyers, investors, builders and developers. All products would remain subject to development, geographic availability, underwriting and approvals.

A second revenue engine

The strategic logic runs both ways. BOXABL believes an integrated financing platform could reduce financing-related delays, help more prospective buyers become qualified purchasers and support home sales. At the same time, the model would pursue mortgage-origination income and portfolio-lending income from selected qualifying loans, subject to capital availability and risk management — giving the company a potential earnings stream that sits alongside manufacturing.The partner brings the lending muscle. Warp Speed Holdings has experience across mortgage origination, construction financing, capital markets and portfolio lending, with more than $2 billion in assets across its businesses and affiliates.