Designed by noted architect Richard Morris Hunt, the property sold for $3,075,000. The sale of this property is one of ten above $3 million in Newport in the past six months.
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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.
Compass CEO Robert Reffkin (iStock, Getty/Illustration by Kevin Rebong for The Real Deal)
Since 2018, Compass has spent more than $300 million to scale its business, buying other brokerages and tech companies to support its “end-to-end platform,” according to the company’s IPO filing.
Backed by $1.5 billion in venture capital from investors including Fidelity, Wellington and SoftBank, Compass’ growth story has been unmatched in residential real estate. The brokerage aggressively courted agents after launching in 2012, but six years later, it switched gears and began scooping up firms wholesale.
Generally speaking, Compass’ acquisition strategy is to buy brokerages in markets that are top priorities for recruitment. Recent purchases of technology companies indicate Compass is not above buying a ready-made platform instead of building it in-house.
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Compass spent much of 2018 and 2019 growing through headline-grabbing acquisitions, the details of which had been scarce with the company’s status as a privately held firm. But as the company prepares to go public and lays its financials bare, for the first time, it’s revealing what it paid for some of its biggest acquisitions.
“We will continue to evaluate potential acquisitions in the real estate technology ecosystem that can bolster the value of our fully integrated platform and accelerate initiatives in our product roadmap,” the company wrote in the filing. “For example, in 2020 we acquired Modus, a title and escrow software company, expanding our capabilities into a critical component of the transaction.