CoStar Group reviews

if this is your only opportunity take it. this is not a real 'research' job. its where uber meets data entry. you drive around in an obnoxious and embarrasing looking costar wrapped car, TRESSPASSING into buildings. you report the tenants inside buildings. people think its weird and its hard to explain. If you decide not to tresspass, you will not hit your metrics and youre suceptible to a layoff. They train you in one way, and weekly seem to change up SOPs. So its not uncommon to fail an assignment due to a sudden 'change' in SOPs. Again, another excuse for the HR department to lay you off. The field research department gets rehired and cut every 3-4 years or so. So dont plan on this JOB being a career. you will not work at a desk, so youll be eating at gas stations (and using the bathroom there.) If youre a social person this job is not for you. You can go days without speaking to anyone else at work. Ive never met most of the people in my market.

The company does not value employees as individuals. Everything is colored by how much money they can make. That's understandable to an extent, but they take it to a stereotypical greedy corporation level that's just gross. They're prone to mass layoffs, especially now that AI exists. Turnover is high (though it had lowered after my first 1.5 years there) and there were two mass layoffs of Homes.com's creative team during my last year there. The writers alone went from over 170 people to a team of 75ish in Feb 2025, then down to just 18 in Feb 2026's mass layoff. The entire time, even after February 2025, leadership promised that they'd always have enough work for everyone and that they valued a human touch and wouldn't be replacing us with AI...then explicitly told us when they were laying people off that they were replacing us with AI (after they'd used our years of work to get what they wanted and to train said AI). Video, voiceover, and quality assurance teams were also impacted. Additionally, their willingness to accommodate disabilities is minimal. Need a comfy chair for pain or an ergonomic keyboard? They've got you. Need any sort of schedule change or hybrid work situation? No. They will not accommodate. They'll send out emails about diversity, equity, and inclusion all day long, but their actual commitment to it when it comes to disability, at least, is lacking.