Housing Notes: Do as I say, not as I do — a masterclass in Compass portal hypocrisy

In a simple random search on Compass.com, the first 41 listings that came up for my Brooklyn “Park Slope” search were 100% Compass listings. Compass Is Running A StreetEasy Experts Program Inside Its Brokerage Before I get started, I thought it was strange to see StreetEasy sharing Compass listings on Instagram just after Compass financially incentivized its agents, as well as Corcoran and Sotheby’s agents, to pull their listings from StreetEasy. I can only assume that the removal of Compass listings was a pipe dream. Here, here, here, and here. For the past year, Robert Reffkin has framed Compass as […]

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