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CoStar Group helps real estate professionals research properties and markets and reach prospective buyers and tenants. Commercial real estate contributes slightly more revenue than residential real estate. Professionals subscribe to its CoStar platform for property, lease, sales and market information; owners, landlords and agents pay LoopNet to advertise commercial properties for sale or lease.
Its residential marketplaces draw renters and homebuyers, then sell advertising and leads to agents, owners and property managers. Apartments.com markets rental communities, while Homes.com promotes homes and directs inquiries to the listing agent. Domain in Australia and OnTheMarket in the U.K. also sell listing promotion. Matterport adds subscriptions for hosting interactive 3D models of physical spaces, alongside capture services and camera sales.
Most revenue comes from subscriptions, generally charged at fixed monthly rates rather than per click or use. The business depends on customers renewing, reliable property data and listings, and marketplace visitors generating worthwhile inquiries for advertisers—not on any single customer or small customer group. Search engines supply some marketplace traffic. Homes.com also relies heavily on multiple listing services, or MLSs, for listings; it must follow each MLS’s data-use and display rules to retain access.
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Zillow competes with CoStar’s Homes.com and Apartments.com for people searching for homes and for advertising spending from agents, landlords and property managers. Watch Zillow’s agent and rental marketing businesses for signs of competition for those customers’ budgets.
CBRE and CoStar are exposed to the same commercial property leasing and sales markets: occupiers and investors pay CBRE to advise on deals, while property professionals pay CoStar for data and listing advertising. CBRE’s leasing and property-sales fees offer a read on activity in the markets CoStar serves.
Colliers shares CoStar’s exposure to commercial property markets, earning fees for arranging sales and leases and managing properties while CoStar sells information and listing services to professionals in those markets. Watch Colliers’ commercial real estate business rather than its engineering business for clues to the leasing and investment activity behind CoStar’s customers’ spending.
MSCI competes with part of CoStar’s information business by selling real-assets data and analytics to property investors who also use CoStar’s subscription property information. Its transaction and benchmark data are the offerings to watch for overlap with CoStar, rather than its index business.
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MSCI’s report will show whether property investors are buying its transaction and benchmark data, a window into demand for the overlapping information products CoStar sells.
Focus on demand for MSCI’s real-assets transaction and benchmark data, not its index business. Strong demand would suggest property investors still pay for information, a supportive signal for CoStar’s investor-facing subscriptions; weaker demand would point to pressure in that market, but would not establish that CoStar’s own revenue is falling.
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CBRE’s report will show whether commercial property leasing and sales are active, offering a read on the markets CoStar serves.
Read CBRE’s leasing and property-sales fees as a measure of deal activity alongside CoStar’s commercial business. Rising activity and fees would mean professionals have more market activity to pursue, potentially supporting demand for CoStar’s data subscriptions and listing ads; falling activity and fees would point to fewer deals for clients and possible pressure on that spending.
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CoStar’s report will show whether commercial property data and residential marketplaces can keep growing revenue while narrowing losses in its residential business.
Read commercial and residential revenue growth alongside each segment’s Adjusted EBITDA, a measure management uses to assess operating performance. Growth in both segments with a smaller residential loss would show that growth is not confined to one business and investment in marketplaces such as Homes.com is translating more effectively into operating results. Slower revenue growth with a wider residential loss would show expansion is still adding costs without a matching return in the business.
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Zillow Group’s report will show how agents and rental marketers are spending, a read on competition for the same customers and budgets as CoStar’s residential marketplaces.
Focus on Zillow Group’s agent and rental marketing businesses, not its overall results as a proxy for residential advertising. Stronger demand would show agents, landlords and property managers are still spending to reach buyers and renters, intensifying competition for budgets at CoStar’s Homes.com and Apartments.com. Weaker demand would ease that competitive signal, but would not prove customers are shifting to CoStar.
