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Business and Basis of Presentation
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2026
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]  
Business and Basis of Presentation Business and Basis of Presentation
Description of the Business
Compass, Inc. (the “Company”) was incorporated in Delaware on October 4, 2012 under the name Urban Compass, Inc.

On January 9, 2026, the Company completed its acquisition of Anywhere Real Estate Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Anywhere”), pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of September 22, 2025 (“Anywhere Merger Agreement”) by and among the Company, Anywhere, and Velocity Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company (“Merger Sub”). Pursuant to the terms of the Anywhere Merger Agreement, Merger Sub merged with and into Anywhere, with Anywhere surviving the merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company (“Anywhere Merger”). Refer to Note 3 — “Acquisitions” for more details.

Real estate professionals at the Company's owned-brokerage business are independent contractors who associate their real estate licenses with the Company and operate their businesses on the Company's platform and/or utilize the Company's technology offerings. The Company primarily generates revenue from its owned-brokerage business by assisting home sellers and buyers in listing, marketing, selling, and finding homes and collecting gross sales commissions on completed home sale transactions. Gross sales commissions are typically calculated as a percentage of the home sale price. Following the Anywhere Merger, the Company operates its owned-brokerage business primarily under the @properties, Coldwell Banker, Compass, Corcoran, and Sotheby's International Realty brands.

The Company also attracts independently operated brokerages that affiliate with the Company as franchisees or licensees under long-term franchise or license agreements. In addition, the Company provides non-brokerage services to real estate professionals and their clients, including title and escrow, and relocation services.

The Company provides an end-to-end platform that empowers its residential real estate professionals to deliver exceptional service to seller and buyer clients. The Company’s platform includes an integrated suite of cloud-based software for customer relationship management, marketing, client service, and other critical functionality, all custom-built for the real estate industry, which enables the Company’s core brokerage services. The platform also uses proprietary data, analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to deliver high value recommendations and outcomes for real estate professionals at the Company's owned-brokerage operating under the Compass brand and their clients. Other real estate professionals and franchisees affiliated with the Company currently utilize other technology offerings.

Effective January 9, 2026 with the Anywhere Merger, the Company changed its operating segments and reports its operations in the following three business segments: Brokerage, Franchise, and Integrated Services. See Note 17 — “Segment Information” for more details.
Basis of Presentation
The condensed consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its subsidiaries. All intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation. The Company’s condensed consolidated financial statements were prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America (“GAAP”) and include the assets, liabilities, revenues, and expenses of all controlled subsidiaries. The condensed consolidated statements of operations include the results of entities acquired from the date of each respective acquisition. Interests held by third parties in consolidated subsidiaries are presented as non-controlling interests, which represents the non-controlling stockholders’ interests in the underlying net assets of the Company’s consolidated subsidiaries.
The unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements and related disclosures have been prepared by management on a basis consistent with the annual consolidated financial statements and, in the opinion of management, include all adjustments necessary for a fair statement of the interim periods presented.
Certain prior period amounts for 2025 have been reclassified on the condensed consolidated balance sheet and condensed consolidated statements of operations to conform to the current period presentation. On the condensed consolidated balance sheet, Concierge receivables are now presented within Other current assets, as the balance is not material to the combined company. On the condensed consolidated statements of operations, for the three and six months ended June 30, 2025, the
Company reclassified $35 million and $69 million, respectively, of occupancy expenses from its brokerage and integrated services businesses out of Sales and marketing and into Operations and support. The purpose of these reclassifications was to consolidate occupancy and franchise license royalty expenses into a single line item following the Anywhere Merger. None of these reclassifications affected previously reported net loss, total revenue, or total operating expenses, and they have been applied to all prior periods presented.
Separately, the Company renamed “Research and development” to “Technology and development” on the statements of operations. This is a presentational change only, with no reclassification of prior period amounts.
The results of the interim periods presented are not necessarily indicative of the results expected for the full year. Certain information and notes normally included in financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP have been condensed or omitted under the SEC’s rules and regulations. Accordingly, the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements and notes included herein should be read in conjunction with the Company’s audited consolidated financial statements and the related notes for the year ended December 31, 2025 included in the 2025 Form 10-K.