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Compass’ Robert Reffkin and REBNY’s James Whelan. (Getty, Whelan ph: Anuja Shakya)
The Real Estate Board of New York represents the interests of the city’s many residential brokerages. Compass says it’s not one of them.
The brokerage alleges in a new lawsuit that REBNY has conspired with Douglas Elliman and the Corcoran Group to “thwart” its business in New York City. The complaint was filed in federal court for the Southern District of New York Friday afternoon. (Elliman and Corcoran are not defendants in the case, but are cited throughout.)
Compass said it was bringing the suit to “halt REBNY and its co-conspirators’ anticompetitive scheme, release from their market dominance, and reinvigorate the competitive process.”
From left: Jerry Speyer, Rob Speyer, Bill Rudin, Peter Malkin and Anthony Malkin
Seymour Durst and his brothers built six Manhattan buildings in a 12-year run. Paul and Seymour Milstein built 10 in about the same amount of time. And Lew and Jack Rudin built 11 in two decades.
The breakneck pace of development which was largely clustered in the 1960s and the 1980s by those three families, and a slew of others, laid the foundation for many of New York City’s most established real estate dynasties. (Think Tishman, Fisher, Malkin, Resnick, LeFrak, Rose, and Zeckendorf.)
Indeed, after passing down their real estate portfolios from one generation to the next, many of those families are sitting on bricks-and-mortar fortunes today.
Howard Lorber and Steve Witkoff (Getty, iStock)
Frequent business partners Howard Lorber and Steve Witkoff have a new project, but it’s not a condo or hotel. It’s a SPAC.
The developers’ Ocean Drive Acquisition Corp. is looking to raise $250 million from investors to take a proptech startup public, according to a regulatory filing. In addition to Lorber and Witkoff, asset manager Monroe Capital is sponsoring the blank-check company.
“Technology has become a strategic imperative as [real estate] owners seek ways to increase the efficiency of their assets,” the filing said. “Our management team has specific experience and knowledge regarding the real estate industry and companies that provide technological solutions and innovation.”
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Compass’ costs to scale, LinkedIn and Zynga founders to take Hippo public National /
Compass’ cost of doing business
Ahead of its buzzed-about IPO, Compass offered investors a peek at its financials via an S-1 filed March 1.
Highlights from the 263-page document include the fact that Compass took in $3.7 billion in revenue last year, four times its revenue of $884.7 million in 2018. The tech-focused resi brokerage also lost $270.2 million in 2020, down from $388 million in 2019.
But one key takeaway is how much Compass spent to grow to its current size: 19,000 agents with $151.7 billion in sales last year.