Robert Reffkin | Photo credit: Compass
Reffkin was away from his New York home often in 2018, as Compass added more than 170 offices, in big markets like San Diego, Dallas, Seattle, Atlanta, Austin, Houston, Nashville and others. It acquired Pacific Union International Real Estate,Avenue Properties and a number of real estate brokerages that stood in the way of the company’s big market share goals.
“I don’t think I’ve ever seen anybody grow as fast as they have over the past three years,” Steve Murray, the president of Real Trends told Inman.
Two years later, 2020 couldn’t have been a larger dichotomy. If 2018 was spent on the road, in airports, and corporate conference rooms, 2020 was spent at home, as a global health crisis raged.