CoStar Group has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Zonda, a leading provider of new home construction data, homebuilder software, and residential real estate marketplaces, for $800 mil in cash.
Zonda serves more than 3,000 customers across the homebuilding ecosystem, including many of the largest residential builders, developers, suppliers, and lenders in North America. Its platform delivers end-to-end solutions spanning land acquisition, development planning, homebuilding analytics, construction forecasting, community marketing, operational workflow management, and online new home marketplaces. Zonda is an attractive B2B business with strong profit margins. The majority of its revenue is subscription-based, with an impressive 104% net customer retention.
At the core of Zonda is a proprietary, lot-level database covering new home communities, land development activity, construction status, home sales, and builder operations. This data and the software built around it are deeply embedded in builder workflows and are widely used to support underwriting, land strategy, capital allocation, development planning, forecasting, and sales operations across the industry.
Zonda also operates NewHomeSource and Livabl, two leading online new home marketplaces in the United States and Canada. Top homebuilders contribute listings directly to these marketplaces, giving buyers broad visibility into new home inventory across the development ecosystem. Zonda’s platforms offer comprehensive listing experiences — including floor plans, virtual tours, pricing, incentives, and community details — designed to guide buyers from early research through purchase. Because these marketplaces feature new construction exclusively, they give builders highly targeted consumer marketing, lead generation, and merchandising — uncluttered by resale inventory.
According to the Census, the annual value of new residential construction in the U.S. approaches $1 tril - a market materially larger than the annual rent rolls of the institutional apartment and office sectors that CoStar Group has successfully monetized.
CoStar Group believes Zonda's builder relationships, workflow integrations, marketplace platforms, and market intelligence will create meaningful cross-sell opportunities across the company's commercial, residential, multifamily, lending, and analytics businesses.
The acquisition will also pair Zonda's Envision visualization and digital merchandising capabilities with Matterport's industry-leading spatial technology. Together, they will create richer digital experiences for builders and consumers and improve how new construction homes are marketed, visualized, and discovered online.
The acquisition is expected to be accretive to adjusted EPS in the first full year of ownership and to close in the second half of 2026, subject to customary closing conditions and required regulatory approvals.
BofA Securities is serving as financial advisor and Latham & Watkins LLP is serving as legal advisor to CoStar Group.
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