3 Phased Marketing Strategy

“We are working with our agents and their clients to create a company that better serves homeowners.”

ROBERT REFFKIN, FOUNDER & CEO, COMPASS

Protecting and Maximizing the Value of Homes

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Your Home.
Your Choice.

For years, the traditional way of selling your home has been part of a system that has put sellers at a disadvantage. The most well-known real estate websites have built their business models at the expense of homeowners by showing negative insights on their listings, such as days on market, price drops, and home value estimates.

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Your home is your most valuable financial asset. You deserve the best return so that you can buy your next home, feel secure in your retirement, or pay for your child’s education. You shouldn’t have to compromise your financial future because the system isn’t built for you. 

At Compass, we’re leveling the playing field by giving individual homeowners the same playbook and best practices real estate developers and professional homebuilders have benefited from for years. We’re working with homeowners to build the smartest and safest place to list homes.

Compass Is Giving Homeowners the Same Advantages as Real Estate Developers and Professional Homebuilders

The marketing strategies that Compass supports are not novel or new. In fact, they have been used by the largest and most successful group of sellers in the industry—professional homebuilders and real estate developers. They have a sophisticated playbook on how to sell homes and just like some homeowners, have properties they want to advertise that aren’t ready to be shown. Here are the key things they do:

Combatting The Criticism Campaign

Portal sites hurt homeowners by placing negative insights that devalue your home. At Compass, we put homeowners first.

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1. Eliminate Days on Market & 
Price Drop History Risk

Extend your marketing runway by controlling when the property is put on the MLS, helping minimize public days on market or price drop history. Excessive days on market and price-drop history can devalue your property in the eyes of buyers.

 

2. Avoid Missed Buyer Inquiries

Some third-party sites block buyers’ ability to reach out to the listing agent directly. These leads are sold to other agents who may be unfamiliar with your home and whose interests may not align with your selling goals.

 

3. Control your Pricing

Automated home valuations on third-party sites use outdated algorithms and incomplete data, often mispricing homes and shaping buyer expectations before you even list.

4. No Negative Insights Added to Your Listing

Third-party platforms can add their own assessments and data to a listing, which may not accurately reflect the true value or desirability of your property.

The Compass 3-Phased Marketing Strategy

Where Homeowners Choose to Market First

A Timeline of Events

Pre-Marketing by the Numbers

Our research shows that Compass-sold homes that are pre-marketed before going active on the MLS, on average, are associated with these results:

2.9%
Higher Closing Price
20%
Faster to Contract
30%
Less Likely to Drop in Price
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Your Home.
Your Choice.

At Compass, we believe selling your home should be done on your terms, with control over how it’s marketed and how your data is being used.


Building the Smartest and Safest Place To List Your Home


*Select phases of this marketing plan are not possible in some markets where MLS and/or association rules restrict public marketing before a listing is input into the MLS. Check with your Broker of Record to ensure you are compliant with your local MLS requirements. 

Findings are descriptive statistics and compare the average of Compass residential listings that went active on a MLS and were pre-marketed as a Compass Private Exclusive and/or Compass Coming Soon vs. the average of Compass residential listings that went active on a MLS but were not pre-marketed as a Compass Private Exclusive and/or Compass Coming Soon from January 1, 2024 - December 31, 2024. Price drop history is included for geographies where price drop history is available from MLS. Source: Compass data. Findings from the internal analysis were based on a hedonic regression model that examined Compass residential closed sell-side transactions from January 1, 2024 - December 31, 2024, nationally and for all residential property types (single family, co-op, condo, townhouse, and condop). For 2024, Compass pre-marketed listings are associated with an average 2.9% increase in the final close price versus Compass listings that went directly to the MLS. The estimated effect has a 95% confidence interval ranging from 1.9% and 3.9%. This finding may vary depending on market conditions and seasonality. The results provided are based on current data and methodologies and should not be interpreted as definitive predictions of future outcomes.

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