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What CoStar Group layoffs have meant for employees

If you work at a CoStar office outside Virginia, the 2019 and 2023 cuts show how a consolidation has gone before. The Atlanta jobs that went in 2019 belonged to Apartments.com researchers who gathered rental listings and posted them free, work CoStar was replacing with salespeople who sell ads on the site, and the new sales jobs sat in Richmond, Bisnow reported. CEO Andy Florance's case for pulling teams together was efficiency, with no reason, as he put it, to keep similar work split between two places. What people were offered differed by round. San Diego's researchers, whose work was consolidated in Virginia in 2023, were offered a move with their roles intact, by CoStar's account to Online Marketplaces. In Atlanta the offer was narrower, a chance for some to apply for the new Richmond sales jobs or other openings, according to Richmond BizSense. Taking a Richmond sales job meant different work in a different city.

Richmond took in the 2019 sales hiring, and since 2025 it's also where the cuts have landed. Both Richmond rounds arrived next to announcements about what CoStar was building, a hiring plan in 2025 and, a day before the 2026 cuts, an AI search assistant for Homes.com, according to Inman. If you're applying inside CoStar after a cut, the 2025 plan named sales and analyst jobs, a different line of work from the listing research and writing that some of those laid off that year had done.

Research and content jobs run through the reports on both Richmond rounds. Some of the people laid off in 2025 had researched and created real estate listings, WTVR reported, and the release that announced the cuts said CoStar saw rapidly growing value in using AI to improve content creation. In February 2026, former Homes.com writers, editors and video editors posted on LinkedIn that they'd lost their jobs, posts Virginia Business gathered, and one wrote that Homes.com had laid off most of the team. Those are employees' own accounts. The release spoke about AI and content creation in general terms, and each post speaks for one person's job, so the two point at the same kind of work without tying AI to any particular role that was cut.

Sales had been the side CoStar added to while it cut research, with Richmond sales hiring in 2019 and a plan for hundreds of Homes.com salespeople in 2025. By July 2026 the Homes.com inside-sales team was smaller while CoStar grew a field team in five cities, a shift Florance, on the call Inman covered, described as keeping the strongest performers. If you're in Homes.com sales, the figures from that call count representatives on the team, which is a different measure from a count of people laid off.

The December 2022 cut came from fitting together two businesses CoStar had bought, Homesnap in 2020 and Homes.com in 2021, and it went after roles CoStar called duplicative while the combined team was set to grow, Inman reported. If your job came to CoStar through a purchase and overlaps work CoStar already does, that round shows how the company handled one overlap, in 2022.

CoStar's Atlanta notices behind the 2019 and 2025 cuts both set separations in stages. The 2019 notice split the Atlanta terminations between two September dates, BizSense reported, and the one behind the 2025 cuts, which listed CoStar's Arlington, Virginia, address as the company's, spread its separations across six months, Georgia's WARN record shows. On a notice like that, colleagues can leave months apart, and if your job was on it, its first date began the group's schedule without necessarily being your own last day. Georgia's rules for an unemployment claim are at Georgia unemployment benefits, and Virginia's are at Virginia unemployment benefits.

A sourced history of CoStar Group layoffs

• February 2026, Homes.com team layoffs

  CoStar laid off members of the Homes.com team, about 200 roles out of a workforce of over 8,000 by the count of a source with knowledge of the situation who spoke to Inman.

• June 2025 to January 2026, three Atlanta WARN filings

  The largest set a permanent reduction of 84 of 337 people at CoStar Realty Information's 3438 Peachtree Road office, separations scheduled from June 30 to December 31, 2025, Georgia's WARN record shows. Two smaller rows in our WARN tracker carry layoff dates of December 1, 2025, for 6 jobs and January 12, 2026, for 3.

• February 2025, Richmond layoffs announced with a hiring plan

  CoStar laid off more than 100 people from its downtown Richmond offices, according to WTVR, in an announcement that also planned about 500 Homes.com sales hires and expected AI efficiencies to eliminate roles during 2025.

• January to May 2023, San Diego research team consolidated

  A California notice covered 14 San Diego researchers let go in January and 62 more set to go in May, their work consolidated in Virginia, Online Marketplaces reported, and CoStar said staff were offered a move to keep their roles.

• December 2022, Homes.com and Homesnap teams combined

  While combining Homes.com and Homesnap, CoStar cut approximately 100 duplicative roles and planned to add a net 700 people building Homes.com over the next year, Inman reported from the company's statement.

• July 2019, Apartments.com research jobs cut in Atlanta

  Georgia's notice covered 173 employees at Apartments.com's Atlanta base, and some could apply for 100 new Richmond sales jobs, Richmond BizSense reported. Separately, 145 positions were set to move to Richmond from D.C., Atlanta and other East Coast offices, according to Bisnow.

What to do if you're laid off from CoStar Group

• File for unemployment in the state where you worked. Benefits run from your filing date, and severance usually doesn't block you. CoStar Group's biggest hubs: Virginia, Georgia. Somewhere else? Every state is here.
• Apply for financial and hardship assistance. Unemployment supplements income, but food benefits, health coverage and utility help are often available as well. Here's some of what CoStar Group's hub states run: Virginia, Georgia, and every other state is here.
• Mind the health insurance window. Losing coverage opens a 60-day special enrollment period, and an ACA plan usually beats unsubsidized COBRA. Compare your options before the employer coverage lapses, and read how the COBRA clocks run if you are weighing it seriously.
• Get your real runway number. Severance plus savings divided by reality. The calculator takes five minutes.
• Know which clocks are already running. Severance review windows, COBRA election, visa grace periods, and 401(k) rollovers all run on federal deadlines that started at termination. All five deadlines are here.