Английская Википедия:Compass, Inc.

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Compass, Inc. operates a residential real estate brokerage in the United States. It has approximately 28,000 agents, who are generally independent contractors, on its platform.

In 2022, the company completed 211,538 transactions for a gross dollar value of $230.3 billion. It had a market share in the U.S. of 4.5%. SoftBank Vision Fund owns 30.1% of the company.

For its customers who sell their homes, in addition to regular brokerage services, the company provides access to loans to make home improvements and access to bridge loans to fund down payments on new homes before the customers' previous home is sold.

History

Compass was founded by Ori Allon, Robert Reffkin, and Avi Dorfman as Urban Compass, Inc. in New York City in October 2012. Allon was a Director of Engineering at Twitter, and previously founded companies acquired by Twitter and Google. Reffkin had previously served as the chief of staff to the president of Goldman Sachs and worked in the White House. Avi Dorfman had previously worked at McKinsey & Company and Lehman Brothers, and founded a startup.

The company raised $8 million of seed funding. The initial business model employed full-time, salaried brokers and was focused only on rentals. The service was launched in May 2013.

In January 2014, Compass announced it would change its overall business model by contracting independent real estate agents, receiving a portion of the broker commission.

In July 2014, Compass signed a lease on 25,000 square feet of office space at 90 5th Avenue, which became its global headquarters.

In June 2014, Leonard Steinberg, previously with Douglas Elliman, was named president of the company. At that time, the company had 125 agents and 70 staff members.

In July 2016, the company launched a mobile app.

The company expanded into several markets, both organically and via acquisitions. By January 2017, the company operated in 9 U.S. markets: New York, Boston, San Francisco, Miami, Washington, the Hamptons, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and Aspen. At that time, it had 1,300 agents.

On April 1, 2021, the company became a public company via an initial public offering.

In November 2021, Compass formally settled with Avi Dorfman, ending an 8-year dispute, and acknowledging him as a member of the founding team. The company took a $21.3 million charge in connection with the matter.

The company announced several rounds of layoffs in 2022 and 2023.

Acquisitions

Date	Acquired	Description	Source
November 2014	Lindsay Reishman Real Estate	Washington, D.C.-based broker
April 2016	Shane Aspen Real Estate	Aspen-based broker
January 2017	Bushari Real Estate	Boston-based brokerage
April 2018	Conlon	Chicago-based brokerage
April 2018	Northwest Group Real Estate	Seattle-based brokerage
June 2018	The Hudson Company	Chicago-based brokerage
July 2018	Paragon Real Estate Group	San Francisco-based brokerage
August 2018	Avenue Properties	Seattle-based brokerage
August 2018	Pacific Union International	San Francisco-based brokerage
November 2018	Wydler Brothers	Washington, D.C.-based brokerage
February 2019	Contactually	CRM provider; shut down in March 2022
March 2019	Alain Pinel Realtors	San Francisco-based brokerage
April 2019	Stribling & Associates	New York-based brokerage
November 2019	Detectica	AI Startup
October 2020	Modus	Home closing startup, shut down in June 2022
February 2021	KVS Title	Title insurance and settlement services provider
April 2021	Glide Labs	Transaction management platform
September 2021	First Alliance Title	Title insurance and settlement services provider
September 2021	CommonGround Abstract	Title insurance and settlement services provider
May 2022	Consumer's Title Company	Title insurance and settlement services provider
April 2023	Launch Real Estate	Arizona-based brokerage
September 2023	Deasy Penner Podley/DPP	Pasadena-based luxury boutique brokerage
September 2023	Realty Austin and Realty San Antonio	Texas-based brokerages
January 2024	Attorneys Key Title	Fort Lauderdale-based title company

Awards

Compass was named Mid-Sized Business of the Year by the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce in 2015.

In 2018, Compass was named to Crain's Fast 50.

In January 2019, it was ranked 14th on Glassdoor's Best Places to Work.

In April 2019, Compass received a Webby Award for Best Real Estate Website.

In August 2019, it was named to Fast Company's Best Workplaces for Innovators.

Compass won the 2020 Webby Award in the real estate web category.

External links

• Шаблон:Official website