At Compass, we're revolutionizing the real estate industry with our end-to-end platform that empowers residential real estate agents to deliver exceptional service to seller and buyer clients. The Economics and Research Group produces data-driven research and content that help agents, consumers, and the media understand what's happening in housing markets. We're looking for an Economist to help us understand, model, and communicate the macroeconomic forces shaping housing markets across the country.
Requirements
- Research and analyze macroeconomic trends, including Fed policy, labor markets, consumer sentiment, inflation, and interest rates, and translate their implications for residential real estate markets.
- Produce regional and local market analyses that bring national macro insights down to the metro, neighborhood, and price-tier level.
- Contribute research on topics such as luxury market dynamics, the impact of AI on labor markets and housing demand, and geographic market segmentation.
- Write research reports, market commentaries, and data-driven narratives for agents, consumers, journalists, and institutional partners.
- Contribute analysis and writing to Compass market intelligence publications, including luxury and high-end market reporting.
- Prepare data summaries, charts, and talking points for media and PR efforts.
- Produce data visualizations that make economic and housing data accessible and engaging.
- Build presentation materials for agents, sales meetings, and leadership briefings.
- Build and maintain housing market forecasting models incorporating macroeconomic inputs such as mortgage rates, employment, and GDP.
- Apply econometric techniques including regression analysis and time series modeling to support market outlooks.
Benefits
- Paid vacation, holidays, sick time, parental leave, and recharge leave
- Medical, tele-health, dental and vision benefits
- 401(k) plan
- Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
- Commuter program
- Life and disability insurance
- Maven (a support system for new parents)
- Carrot (fertility benefits)
- UrbanSitter (caregiver referral network)
- Employee Assistance Program
- Pet insurance
