BASIS OF PRESENTATION

Realogy Holdings Corp. ("Realogy Holdings", "Realogy" or the "Company") is a holding company for its consolidated subsidiaries including Realogy Intermediate Holdings LLC ("Realogy Intermediate") and Realogy Group LLC ("Realogy Group") and its consolidated subsidiaries. Realogy, through its subsidiaries, is a global provider of residential real estate services. Neither Realogy Holdings, the indirect parent of Realogy Group, nor Realogy Intermediate, the direct parent company of Realogy Group, conducts any operations other than with respect to its respective direct or indirect ownership of Realogy Group. As a result, the consolidated financial positions, results of operations, comprehensive income and cash flows of Realogy Holdings, Realogy Intermediate and Realogy Group are the same.

The accompanying Consolidated Financial Statements include the financial statements of Realogy Holdings and Realogy Group. Realogy Holdings' only asset is its investment in the common stock of Realogy Intermediate, and Realogy Intermediate's only asset is its investment in Realogy Group. Realogy Holdings' only obligations are its guarantees of certain borrowings and certain franchise obligations of Realogy Group. All expenses incurred by Realogy Holdings and Realogy Intermediate are for the benefit of Realogy Group and have been reflected in Realogy Group’s consolidated financial statements. The consolidated financial statements of the Company have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. All intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated.

Business Description

The Company reports its operations in the following four business segments:

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Real Estate Franchise Services (known as Realogy Franchise Group or RFG)—franchises the Century 21^®, Coldwell Banker^®, Coldwell Banker Commercial^®,ERA^®, Sotheby's International Realty^® and Better Homes and Gardens^® Real Estate brand names. As of December 31, 2017, our franchise systems and proprietary brands had approximately 14,800 offices (which included approximately 790 company owned brokerage offices) and approximately 289,000 independent sales agents (which included approximately 50,300 company owned brokerage independent sales agents) operating in the U.S. and 115 other countries and territories around the world.

Our wholly-owned subsidiary, ZapLabs LLC, is the developer of our proprietary technology platform for the real estate brokerages and independent sales agents in our franchise system as well as their customers. We believe the Zap technology platform will increase the value proposition to franchisees, independent sales agents and customers as well as improve the productivity of independent sales agents.

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Company Owned Real Estate Brokerage Services (known as NRT)—operates a full-service real estate brokerage business with approximately 790 owned and operated brokerage offices with approximately 50,300 independent sales agents principally under the Coldwell Banker^®, Corcoran^®, Sotheby’s International Realty^®, ZipRealty^®and Citi Habitats^SM brand names in more than 50 of the 100 largest metropolitan areas in the U.S. This segment also includes the Company's share of earnings for our PHH Home Loans venture, which is in the final stages of winding down as we transition to our new mortgage origination joint venture with Guaranteed Rate Affinity, which will be included in the financial results of the Title and Settlement Services segment.

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Relocation Services (known as Cartus^®)—primarily offers clients employee relocation services such as homesale assistance, providing home equity advances to transferees (generally guaranteed by the individual's employer), home finding and other destination services, expense processing, relocation policy counseling and consulting services, arranging household goods moving services, coordinating visa and immigration support, intercultural and language training and group move management services. In addition, we provide home buying and selling assistance to members of affinity clients.

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Title and Settlement Services (known as Title Resource Group or TRG)—provides full-service title and settlement services to real estate companies, affinity groups, corporations and financial institutions with many of these services provided in connection with the Company's real estate brokerage and relocation services business. This segment also includes the Company's share of earnings, including start-up costs, for our Guaranteed Rate Affinity joint venture.