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ORGANIZATION
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2019
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]  
ORGANIZATION
ORGANIZATION

CoStar Group, Inc. (the “Company” or “CoStar”) provides information, analytics and online marketplace services to the commercial real estate and related business community through its comprehensive, proprietary database of commercial real estate information. The Company provides online marketplaces for commercial real estate, apartment rentals, lands for-sale and businesses for-sale, and its services are typically distributed to its clients under subscription-based license agreements that renew automatically, a majority of which have a term of at least one year. The Company operates within two operating segments, North America, which includes the United States (“U.S.”) and Canada, and International, which primarily includes Europe, Asia-Pacific and Latin America.

On October 22, 2019, the Company acquired STR, Inc. and STR Global, Ltd. (together with STR, Inc., referred to as "STR"). STR provides benchmarking and analytics for the hospitality industry. See Note 4 to the accompanying Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements for further discussion of this acquisition.