The final prototype, in the shape of a magnifying glass, stands tall in a 10th-floor conference room at real estate startup Compass, emitting a gentle glow from the inner rim of its ringed frame. At ...

Mike Davis and Marta Maletz make up the real estate team of Mike and Marta at Compass Real Estate in New York. Davis says that when he started in real estate fifteen years ago, print was the holy ...

UPDATE, Tuesday, July 30, 9:38 a.m.: In the dog-eat-dog world of residential brokerage, Compass appears to be playing defense. Of nine real estate brokerages The Real Deal surveyed in New York City, ...

Last week, a deeply confused swath of the real-estate universe had a chance to get an answer to a long-running mystery: Is Compass an industry-disrupting technology platform, or just an old-fashioned ...