CoStar Group tallies Q1 revenue growth on success of Homes.com

The Virginia-based commercial and residential real estate behemoth released its first-quarter earnings on Tuesday, which revealed the company grew its revenue 12 percent year over year to $656 million. The company remained profitable, although its net income dropped 91 percent from $87 million in Q1 2023 to $7 million.

2 buyers scramble to make a deal as the spring market sprints ahead

One Connecticut homebuyer is preparing for marriage. Another in Virginia is healing from a divorce. Both tell Inman the struggle to find a home this spring is real — and the clock is ticking.

Homes.com gets analyst boost amid 567% annual traffic spike

Despite the initial controversy, Homes.com isn’t letting up on its traffic war with Zillow, Realtor.com and Redfin. The CoStar-owned portal reported late last week that it reached 149 million unique visitors in February, which equals a mind-boggling 567 percent growth in unique visitors compared to February 2023.

Realtor.com the latest portal to include climate risk data

The climate’s toddler-like, harder-than-ever-to-predict behavior is having a measurable impact on the housing market, a reality that led to Realtor.com partnering with First Street, a non-profit organization that provides data and critical resources on climate change.

US housing market is short 7.2M single-family homes: Realtor.com

The US housing market is short 7.2 million homes, according to Realtor.com’s latest housing market analysis. Nearly 18 million households have been formed over the past decade; however, only 10 million single-family homes were constructed during the same time period.