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CoStar Group to Acquire Ten-X Commercial in $190 Mil Deal

5/14/20

CoStar Group Inc, the publicly traded commercial real estate information provider, has agreed to acquire Ten-X Commercial for $190 mil in cash.

Ten-X was launched in 2009 with the goal of providing a digital transaction platform for effectively liquidating the large volume of distressed commercial real estate assets that came on the market during the Great Recession. Ten-X has since become a leading, best-in-class platform for digital commercial real estate transactions with close to $24 bil dollars of sales successfully executed on the platform. The Ten-X platform has transacted approximately $7 bil in retail properties, $6 bil in office properties, $4 bil in multifamily properties, $3 bil in hotel properties, and billions in value in other commercial property types. While Ten-X initially focused on distressed assets, non-distressed sellers and brokerage firms have increasingly come to rely on Ten-X to facilitate faster execution to transact properties.

The Ten-X transaction platform has become a popular online platform for brokers across the country to execute transactions for their clients, including all of the top 25 US commercial real estate brokerage firms. Leading lenders, special servicers and institutional sellers have relied on Ten-X’s transaction platform to sell billions in assets. Fannie Mae, Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Blackstone, Starwood, BlackRock, Capital One, MetLife, LNR, UBS, PNC, and SunTrust are just some of the major institutions that have trusted the Ten-X platform to transact billions in online commercial property transactions.

Ten-X accelerates the property sales process by qualifying and independently evaluating the assets, identifying likely buyers from a database of 400,000 buyers from 73 countries, qualifying the bidders and funds, providing a powerful and flexible digital auction process, and managing online escrow. The online model accelerates the marketing period of the sales process, cutting deal times by up to 50% while providing reliable execution, value maximization and certainty of close.

CoStar Group operates the most heavily trafficked online marketplace for commercial properties and land for lease and sale in North America and Europe with 10 million monthly visitors in April 2020 to its websites including LoopNet.com and CoStar.com. After completion of the transaction, CoStar Group intends to integrate the Ten-X digital transaction platform directly into both LoopNet and CoStar thereby exposing the properties that brokers are selling on the Ten-X platform to millions of potential buyers from around the world.

“Together, Ten-X and CoStar plan to create a new end-to-end commercial real estate platform, combining LoopNet and CoStar’s unmatched online audience of buyers with Ten-X’s clear leadership in online auctions for both performing and distressed assets”, said CoStar Group Chief Executive Officer Andrew Florance. “Combining our complementary capabilities is expected to create significant benefits for brokers and the institutions they represent by exposing their properties for sale to the biggest pool of potential bidders on the most trusted digital transaction platform and delivering fast and reliable trade execution. In the aftermath of the economic disruption which is being caused by the global pandemic, we believe that the volume of distressed properties coming to market will surge and that this combined platform will support the market’s recovery.”

“Today, only 1% of all commercial real estate sales transactions take place online,” noted Steve Jacobs, CEO of Ten-X. “Just like CoStar Group, we are focused on driving volume and efficiency and have devoted ourselves to addressing the massive, untapped demand for digital commercial real estate solutions. We see significant demand for a one-stop shop platform that provides solutions across the entire transaction continuum and we are delighted to combine our complementary capabilities and strengths with CoStar to meet that demand.”

Ten-X Commercial’s 2019 unaudited financial statements reflect revenue of approximately $57 mil. “The Ten-X team has worked hard over the past year to position the business for growth and profitability,” said Scott Wheeler, Chief Financial Officer of CoStar Group. Revenue for the first quarter of 2020 was approximately $13 mil, representing revenue growth of 35% compared to the first quarter of 2019, and operating profit of approximately zero. “Although we expect a certain amount of revenue disruption from the global pandemic, I am optimistic that transaction volumes could increase materially later in the year as was the case following the last recession,” continued Wheeler. The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of 2020, subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory review. Assuming the transaction closes in the third quarter of 2020, Ten-X is not expected to have a material impact to CoStar Group Adjusted EBITDA for the year.





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