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Fathom Holdings serves home buyers and sellers through Fathom Realty, with existing-home transactions supplying most of its revenue. When a sale closes, commissions flow through the brokerage, which pays agents their portion and retains a transaction fee or commission share, depending on the agent’s plan. Agents also pay an annual fee. This structure lets agents keep more of their commissions than at traditional brokerages.
Fathom Realty uses its own intelliAgent software to manage transactions and support agents without maintaining physical brokerage offices. Smaller businesses provide mortgage lending through Encompass Lending Group, and title insurance and closing services through Verus Title; Fathom also earns revenue from software services.
The business depends on attracting and retaining productive agents and on buyers being able to finance home purchases. It also relies heavily on a few significant technology vendors. Brokerage and lending activities require licenses and compliance with housing and mortgage rules. Under the NAR rule changes Fathom Realty agreed to follow, buyers’ agents must have written agreements with buyers, and offers of agent compensation cannot appear on multiple listing services, the shared property-listing systems used by brokers.
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Every company claims an edge. Each one is checked against hard numbers like margins and returns: which hold, and which line gives way first.
AGNT, Inc. competes with Fathom for home sales and agents through cloud-based brokerages built around technology and agent support; both earn fees from property transactions. AGNT’s agent recruitment and residential commission revenue are worth watching for competition facing Fathom’s flat-fee model.
La Rosa Holding Corp. challenges Fathom for home buyers, sellers and agents by pairing brokerage technology with a model that lets agents keep more commission. Alongside serving property customers, La Rosa sells technology and support services to its own and franchise agents, making its agent offering worth watching against Fathom’s flat transaction fee.
Compass, Inc. competes with Fathom for agents and home-sale commissions, with both using proprietary software to support agents. Compass keeps a share of agents’ sales commissions and charges some transaction fees, so its owned-brokerage commission revenue offers a comparison for Fathom’s transaction-based business.
Douglas Elliman Inc. competes with Fathom for agents and residential brokerage commissions in overlapping U.S. markets, but focuses on luxury homes. Both earn revenue from helping customers sell homes; Elliman’s luxury emphasis means its brokerage results reflect a higher-priced slice of housing demand than Fathom’s broader existing-home business.
Zillow Group, Inc. shares Fathom’s exposure to U.S. homebuying activity: Zillow earns from home searches and marketing services sold to agents, while Fathom collects brokerage fees when transactions close. Zillow’s agent products and services are worth watching for demand for buyer leads, rather than treating its revenue as a direct measure of completed home sales.
Linkhome Holdings Inc. competes with Fathom in technology-enabled brokerage and mortgage services for home customers, but its footprint is concentrated in California. Its brokerage transaction activity and expansion into additional U.S. markets are worth watching for where that competition reaches Fathom’s broader U.S. business.
Opendoor Technologies Inc buys homes directly from sellers, offering an alternative to Fathom’s agent-led sales, and then earns revenue by reselling them to buyers rather than only collecting brokerage commissions. Its resales show how the same U.S. housing demand supporting Fathom is translating into purchases, though Opendoor also bears the risk of owning the homes.
Offerpad Solutions Inc. gives homeowners an alternative to Fathom agents by buying their homes directly and reselling them to buyers, with both businesses dependent on residential transaction demand. Watch its Cash Offer business, which generated over 90% of consolidated revenue in each of 2023, 2024 and 2025, for activity in that competing route to selling a home.
Fed Interest Rate Decision
Fathom’s brokerage and mortgage businesses depend on buyers obtaining home loans on favorable terms, so the Fed’s policy-rate decision matters because it can shift borrowing costs, home purchases and loan originations, while also changing interest paid on Fathom’s SOFR-linked notes.
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If it comes in above expectations
Higher borrowing costs can make homes less affordable, potentially reducing closings that generate Fathom’s brokerage fees and mortgage originations; at the same time, interest on its SOFR-linked notes may rise, increasing financing costs.
If it comes in below expectations
Lower borrowing costs can make homes more affordable, potentially supporting closings that generate Fathom’s brokerage fees and mortgage originations; interest on its SOFR-linked notes may also fall, easing financing costs.
Offerpad Solutions Inc. earningsOPAD
Offerpad’s cash-offer business gives homeowners a way to sell without using an agent, and its report will show how active that competing route is alongside Fathom’s agent-led sales.
Look at home purchases and resales in Offerpad’s Cash Offer business. If both rise, sellers are using the direct-sale route and homes are moving through it; that route competes for some of the sellers Fathom’s agents serve, but does not prove Fathom lost customers. If activity weakens, the cash-offer route is less active; that does not prove sellers switched to agents.
Douglas Elliman Inc. earningsDOUG
Douglas Elliman focuses on luxury brokerage, so its report will show how high-end home sales are faring—a distinct demand signal for Fathom’s broader existing-home business.
See whether Douglas Elliman’s residential brokerage revenue moves with its transaction activity. Both strengthening would show buyers and sellers still completing deals in the higher-priced luxury segment; both weakening would point to pressure in that niche. The two companies earn from facilitating home sales, but luxury results do not directly represent the broader market Fathom serves.
Zillow Group, Inc. earningsZ
Zillow Group sells agents buyer leads and related services, so its report will show demand for those tools—not a direct count of the home sales that generate Fathom’s brokerage fees.
Look at demand for Zillow Group’s agent products and services, not as a count of completed home sales. Stronger demand means agents are spending on tools to find buyers and run their businesses, a useful signal around Fathom’s brokerage market. Weaker demand means less appetite for those tools, but does not by itself tell you how many Fathom transactions will close.
AGNT, Inc. earningsAGNT
AGNT competes for agents and home sales through a cloud-based brokerage, and its report will show whether that rival is recruiting agents and generating residential commission revenue.
Read AGNT’s agent recruitment alongside its residential commission revenue. If both strengthen, this cloud brokerage competing with Fathom is expanding its agent and transaction business. If both weaken, AGNT may be losing momentum or the two may be facing softer housing demand; that alone would not show that Fathom is gaining agents.
Fathom Holdings Inc. earningsThis company
Fathom earns most of its revenue when home sales close, and this report will show whether more transactions and higher revenue per transaction are improving its brokerage economics.
Read completed transactions and average revenue per transaction together, then check whether the adjusted EBITDA loss narrowed. Adjusted EBITDA is a supplemental measure that excludes specified items; it is not net income. More closings, higher revenue per transaction and a narrower loss would show brokerage fees growing enough to cover more of the operating costs. Slower closings or a wider loss would show that revenue is not yet bringing the business closer to profitability.
