Real Estate Companies Are Struggling


Anywhere Real Estate has kicked into the first half of the year by laying off employees.


The company has not disclosed the exact number of dismissed employees; however, the SEC report on Tuesday said that the workforce was cut by approximately 11 percent since June's end. It also announced that it was closing its iBuying company, RealSure, following in the same footsteps as Zillow Redfin and Zillow. Redfin.


Anywhere is the mother company comprising Corcoran, Coldwell Banker, Century 21, and Sotheby's International Realty, and it had around 200,000 agents throughout the U.S. as of last year.


"Let me begin by addressing the most difficult, but crucial aspect: our employees. Today we bid goodbye to many of our outstanding employees with roles that were cut," Anywhere CEO Ryan Schneider stated in an all-company email sent out Tuesday. The company shared the message of the news with The Real Deal.


Anywhere is engaged in a cost-cutting initiative in the past year according to documents that the company previously made public. The company announced in late 2021 that it would cut the costs by 70% at the close of 2022 and $300 million by 2026's end. Everywhere announced a round of layoffs in August. The company's stock dropped by more than 60 percent last year.

"We are a long way from us with more cost-savings that we could achieve via efficiencies, automation and more system integration such as that," Schneider said during the company's earnings call for the first quarter this year.


"We believe that changing industry trends as well as customer demand will need simpler and better integrated digitalized services, systems and customer support," Anywhere said in Tuesday's announcement. "Delivering our business model in a more efficient and digital manner is an integral component of our efforts to improve the customer experience as well as our constant budget-focused approach."


This announcement came just a few days after Compass revealed it was preparing to announce its third round of reductions in June 2022.


A new company called Anywhere has decided to stop its iBuying operation after Zillow and Redfin quit the market in the previous year. Opendoor, the company that pioneered the concept, announced that it had lost $928 million in November in the third quarter of 2022.

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