Full-Time
Account Executive
Costar Data & Analytics
Updated on 9/10/2026
CoStar Group
5,001-10,000 employees
Commercial real estate data, analytics, marketplaces
Compensation Overview
CA$72k - CA$98k/yr
Montreal, QC, Canada
In Person
Bachelor's
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- At least 3 years of successful business-to-business outside sales experience.
- A bachelor's degree from an accredited, not-for-profit, in-person college or university.
- A track record of commitment to prior employers.
- A proven track record of exceeding sales targets.
- Experience in client management and post-sale activities.
- A current and valid driver's license.
- Satisfactory completion of a driving record or driving abstract check before starting; driving history must reflect responsible driving behavior and compliance with traffic laws.
- Identify and pursue new business opportunities by promoting the value of CoStar products to the commercial real estate industry and beyond.
- Manage and expand a portfolio of clients, ensuring ongoing satisfaction and growth through tailored solutions.
- Develop expertise in CoStar products and the commercial real estate market.
- Manage the full sales cycle, including prospecting, product demonstrations, closing, onboarding, training, and client renewals.
- Conduct in-person meetings and deliver product demonstrations to brokers, owners, corporations, investors, and other commercial real estate professionals.
- Represent CoStar at industry events and cultivate long-term relationships and a professional network.
- At least 5 years of successful outside sales experience in a business-to-business environment selling data, research, and analytics platforms or tools, commercial real estate, financial services, business intelligence, marketing, information providers, or related products; client-facing commercial real estate experience is strongly preferred.
- Strong consultative selling skills with the ability to build rapport and trust with clients.
- A keen interest in the commercial real estate market and willingness to develop expertise in CoStar's product suite.
- Demonstrated success managing client portfolios and driving revenue growth.
- Communication, negotiation, and problem-solving abilities.
- A results-driven approach focused on customer satisfaction and market knowledge.
CoStar Group provides information, analytics, and online marketplaces for the commercial real estate industry. Its core products are detailed property data, market analyses, and tools to compare and evaluate properties, delivered via subscription access. It also runs online marketplaces like Apartments.com and LoopNet that connect renters with apartments and buyers/tenants with commercial properties, earning revenue from subscriptions, advertising, and transaction fees. The company differentiates itself through a large, integrated data platform and a suite of marketplaces that cover both residential rentals and commercial properties, with a strong presence in the U.S. and expanding globally. Its goal is to help brokers, property owners, investors, and lenders make informed real estate decisions and efficiently connect buyers, renters, and property listings across markets.
Company Size
5,001-10,000
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Washington DC, District of Columbia
Founded
1987
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- CoStar closed Zonda on August 21, 2026, adding $170 million revenue and marketplaces.
- Second-quarter 2026 revenue reached $925 million, up from $781.3 million last year.
- Residential revenue hit $444 million in Q2 2026, validating cross-sell beyond commercial CRE.
What critics are saying
- Four antitrust suits consolidated in Virginia on August 2026 target CoStar's data moat.
- CREXi's March 2026 Supreme Court win keeps CoStar exposed to platform-access and monopoly claims.
- Zillow's July 2026 copyright fight and repeated litigation risk customer distrust and platform backlash.
What makes CoStar Group unique
- CoStar owns proprietary CRE datasets, including LoopNet, Apartments.com, and Ten-X auctions.
- Zonda adds lot-level new-home data and builder workflows, broadening CoStar across property categories.
- Steve Price's Ten-X reset deepens auction execution with dedicated leadership and relaunch plans.
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RBC Capital sticks to its Hold rating for CoStar Group (CSGP). Sep. 4, 2026, 07:45 PM In a report released yesterday, Ashish Sabadra from RBC Capital maintained a Hold rating on CoStar Group, with a price target of $34.00. According to TipRanks, Sabadra is a 3-star analyst with an average return of 2.1% and a 55.15% success rate. Sabadra covers the Financial sector, focusing on stocks such as S&P Global, Moody's, and TransUnion. In addition to RBC Capital, CoStar Group also received a Hold from William Blair's Stephen Sheldon in a report issued on August 27. However, on August 24, Wells Fargo assigned a Sell rating to CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP). Based on CoStar Group's latest earnings release for the quarter ending June 30, the company reported a quarterly revenue of $925 million and a net profit of $55 million. In comparison, last year the company earned a revenue of $781.3 million and had a net profit of $6.2 million Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 51 insiders, corporate insider sentiment is negative on the stock. This means that over the past quarter there has been an increase of insiders selling their shares of CSGP in relation to earlier this year. Last month, John W. Hill, a Director at CSGP sold 3,500.00 shares for a total of $105,735.00. Read More on CSGP:
CoStar monopoly lawsuits consolidated in Virginia. Four consolidated suits to be heard in Eastern District of Virginia * Four antitrust lawsuits against CoStar consolidated in Virginia federal court * Two suits were filed in Virginia, one each in California, Washington, D.C. * Lawsuits allege CoStar violated Sections 1 and 2 of Sherman Act Four antitrust lawsuits filed against Arlington County-based real estate data and analytics company CoStar Group have been consolidated in federal court in Virginia. Per court records, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation earlier this month combined three similar suits filed earlier this year in Virginia, California and Washington, D.C. A fourth suit filed later by a CoStar customer was added to the consolidated suits, which will be heard by Judge David J. Novak for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The suits all allege CoStar participated in monopolistic practices. The initial Virginia case, Shapiro Hospitalities dba Grand & Co. v. CoStar Group, et al., was filed in the Eastern District in April. The complaint, brought forth by Shapiro Hospitalities, claims CoStar violated federal antitrust law by maintaining monopoly power as the dominant provider of commercial real estate, or CRE, online listings and information. The complaint in Shapiro alleged CoStar coerced the three largest CRE brokerages into noncompete agreements, limiting the information that could be shared with CoStar competitors and excluding any rival platform from competing without access to the information. "This is a rare case about a company that has perpetrated an anticompetitive scheme so pernicious that its own customers openly lament how it has destroyed competition, leaving them no choice but to pay its supracompetitive prices," the complaint states. The filing specifically alleges violations of Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act. "By restraining customers' ability to share their own CRE information with CoStar competitors, CoStar has created and maintained a dangerous probability that its attempt to monopolize will succeed," the complaint states. In the Aug. 14 decision by the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, the panel wrote that CoStar opposed consolidation but asked that the actions be transferred to Virginia should consolidation occur. "We find that the Eastern District of Virginia is the most appropriate transferee district for this litigation," U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation Acting Chair Matthew F. Kennelly wrote. "CoStar is headquartered in this district, and most parties support centralization there, in the first instance or in the alternative." Kennelly selected Novak to preside over the consolidated action, writing that he "is familiar with the contours of multidistrict and complex litigation, and we are confident he will steer this matter on an efficient and prudent course." The cases transferred to Virginia include Malm Inc. v. CoStar Group from the Central District of California and One Real Estate, dba The One Street Co. v. CoStar Group from the District of District of Columbia. The fourth case, Oster v. CoStar Group, was filed in the Eastern District of Virginia after consolidation proceedings began. In the new filing, plaintiff Brad Oster, a New Orleans resident who has paid for a "Premium Listing Plan" and CRE listing services from CoStar, alleged similar violations of the Sherman Act. "CoStar did not achieve this dominance through superior products or competitive pricing," the complaint states. "It achieved dominance by eliminating competitors through acquisition and litigation, and then by deploying a self-reinforcing anticompetitive scheme designed to prevent any new competitor from challenging its position." CoStar has 8,400 employees and 86 offices in 15 countries. In 2025, the company reported $3.2 billion in revenue, up 19% over 2024's $2.7 billion. Its websites attracted an average of 118 million unique monthly visitors during the second quarter of this year.
CoStar hit with consolidated antitrust challenge over property data. By CPI | August 25, 2026 CoStar Group is confronting a widening antitrust battle, with several lawsuits accusing the commercial real estate data provider of using its market position to suppress competition even as the company seeks to dismiss a separate case alleging it helped facilitate rent price-fixing. Four antitrust cases have been consolidated in federal court in Virginia, according to an Aug. 25 report by the Washington Business Journal. The lawsuits accuse Arlington, Virginia-based CoStar of monopolistic practices involving commercial real estate data and information services. The litigation puts fresh scrutiny on a business model built around collecting, organizing and selling property and transaction information relied upon by brokers, landlords, investors and other commercial real estate professionals. One of the cases was initially filed in April by Shapiro Hospitalities LLC, doing business as Grand & Co., in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The complaint alleges CoStar controls roughly 80% of national markets for internet-based commercial real estate listing and information services, according to the plaintiffs' law firm, DiCello Levitt. That figure is an allegation and hasn't been established by a court. The plaintiffs contend that CoStar reinforced its position through contractual restrictions and other measures that limited customers' ability to provide their own listings and data to competing platforms. They are seeking damages as well as court-ordered changes intended to increase competition, according to DiCello Levitt. The consolidated monopoly litigation comes as CoStar also battles a different proposed class action focused on the exchange of commercial leasing information. FitFactariDC LLC, a commercial tenant, sued CoStar and five major real estate brokerages - CBRE Group Inc., Colliers International Group Inc., Cushman & Wakefield Plc, Jones Lang LaSalle Inc. and Newmark Group Inc. - in Illinois federal court in June. The plaintiff alleges the companies participated in a so-called hub-and-spoke conspiracy that allowed sensitive leasing information to move among competitors and contributed to higher rents. According to the Washington Business Journal's Aug. 25 report, CoStar has moved to dismiss that price-fixing case. The company's effort to knock out the lawsuit underscores the distinct legal fronts it now faces: allegations that it monopolized commercial real estate information markets and claims that its data platform facilitated anticompetitive coordination among brokerage firms. Please add Competition Policy International to your preferred sources list so its news, data and interviews show up in your feed. Thanks! CoStar has rejected the price-fixing allegations. General Counsel Gene Boxer previously described the complaint as poorly conceived and said the company expected to prevail, according to Bisnow. The disputes arrive as courts increasingly wrestle with how traditional antitrust law applies to data-sharing platforms and information services. Plaintiffs in such cases have sought to show that exchanging competitively sensitive information through third-party systems can reduce independent decision-making even without an old-fashioned agreement among rivals. CoStar has already prevailed at an early stage in another data-sharing antitrust dispute. In August 2025, U.S. District Judge Robert Lasnik in Seattle dismissed a proposed class action accusing CoStar's Smith Travel Research unit and luxury hotel operators of fixing hotel-room prices through an industry benchmarking program. Lasnik concluded that the plaintiffs hadn't sufficiently alleged an agreement violating Section 1 of the Sherman Act, though he allowed them an opportunity to amend their complaint. That ruling doesn't determine the outcome of the newer commercial real estate cases, which involve different plaintiffs, markets and allegations. But the cases collectively raise a question increasingly important to industries built around proprietary databases: when does the aggregation and distribution of market information cross the line from providing useful intelligence to restraining competition? For CoStar, the answer could carry consequences beyond damages in any individual lawsuit. The company's commercial real estate databases sit at the center of an information network used across the industry, making challenges to the way that data is collected, protected and distributed potentially significant for both CoStar and its customers. The allegations in the pending cases remain unproven, and CoStar is contesting the claims.
CoStar Group has completed its acquisition of Zonda for $800 million in cash. The deal expands CoStar's presence in residential real estate, adding new home construction data and analytics capabilities. Zonda serves over 3,000 customers, including major North American homebuilders, developers, and lenders. In 2025, the company generated approximately $170 million in revenue at a 23% adjusted EBITDA margin. The acquisition brings NewHomeSource.com and Livabl marketplaces into CoStar's portfolio. These platforms focus exclusively on new construction properties. The US new home market represents approximately $400 billion in annual sales. CoStar chief executive Andy Florance said the combination creates opportunities to deliver more value to builders and accelerate innovation across the homebuilding ecosystem. The deal is expected to enhance profitability in CoStar's residential segment.
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan purchased nearly $10 million worth of shares as part of the chipmaker's recent stock offering, signalling confidence in the company's turnaround. Intel recently reported revenues of $16.1 billion, growing 25% year-over-year, with its Data Centre and AI business unit seeing revenue surge nearly 60% to $6.3 billion. CoStar Group founder and CEO Andrew Florance purchased 83,300 shares totalling roughly $2.5 million. Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla similarly invested, purchasing 38,000 shares for just over $1 million. These insider purchases reflect executives' confidence in their companies' longer-term outlook, with investors often viewing such moves as a positive signal.