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Leonard Steinberg, Charles Blaichman plan mystery “private club” in upstate NY

by Kathryn Brenzel | October 14, 2015 06:15PM

At the one-time home of country-club vegetarians, and later, recovering drug addicts, Compass president Leonard Steinberg and developer Charles...

In Corcoran v. Compass, court issues restraining order

by E.B. Solomont | March 30, 2015 08:00AM

A judge granted a temporary restraining order preventing former Corcoran Group agents who defected to Compass from accessing Corcoran’s...

Inside a Compass job offer

by E.B. Solomont | March 24, 2015 06:14PM

UPDATED: 8:19 p.m., March 24: When Gene Martinez, the former Soho manager for the Corcoran Group, decamped to Compass earlier this year, he accidentally left a key document on his Corcoran work computer: a...

Corcoran sues Compass for “brazenly” raiding its talent pool

by E.B. Solomont and Kyna Doles | March 23, 2015 06:27PM

The Corcoran Group, which has been hemorrhaging agents to startup brokerage Compass in recent months, slammed the rival brokerage...

Magnetic Compass: Sotheby’s Wesoky latest to be pulled in

by E.B. Solomont | March 16, 2015 05:40PM

Compass snagged top-producing agent Joshua Wesoky from Sotheby’s International Realty, as it continues its recruiting tear. Wesoky, a former investment banker,...

Sofia Song leaves full-time job at Compass

by E.B. Solomont | March 13, 2015 03:40PM

Sofia Song, Compass’ head of research and external affairs and one of the brokerage’s most high-profile hires after it launched in 2013, is no longer working full-time at the startup firm. Song, who was...

James Morgan turns to Compass from Corcoran

by E.B. Solomont | February 12, 2015 04:40PM

Days after dropping “Urban” from its name, the brokerage Compass lured top-producing agent James Morgan away from the Corcoran Group. Morgan sold $75.7 million worth of real estate in 2014, and he put another...

Lindsay Barton Barrett latest Corcoran agent to make jump to Urban Compass

by E.B. Solomont | January 16, 2015 01:10PM

Top Brooklyn agent Lindsay Barton Barrett, who was the Corcoran Group’s No. 1 individual agent in 2013, has followed...

Top moments from “Future of Real Estate” panel

by E.B. Solomont | January 15, 2015 04:22PM

Put some of real estate’s biggest names together on stage, and there are no shortage of zingers. That was the...

Urban Compass hires ex-Corcoran exec to lead Miami push

January 07, 2015 02:52PM

From the South Florida website: Urban Compass is heading south this winter. Gene Martinez, formerly of the New York-based Corcoran Group,...