Zillow Partners with Apartments.com

Date:August 31, 2010 | Author: | Category:Professionals

We’re excited to announce that we are partnering with Apartments.com, which means Zillow’s rental listings will grow by an additional 90,000 managed apartment rental listings. This partnership will make shopping for homes or apartments for rent even more convenient for Zillow’s 12 million monthly visitors — nearly two million of whom are renters.

This partnership brings the total number of rental listings for single-family homes and apartments on Zillow.com to 150,000. Apartments.com rental listings include comprehensive home details, photos, floor plans and contact information – bringing the full search experience from Apartments.com to Zillow.

We’re thrilled by the growth of our rental listings, which we launched in December 2009 as a complement to our 4 million homes for sale and as an additional real estate segment among our enormous database of 100 million U.S. homes. We’ve been working hard to create the best experience for home shoppers who are renting, deciding whether to rent or buy, or shopping for a home to buy.  In fact, one in four (25 percent) of home shoppers plan to search for both homes to buy and homes to rent, according to a recent Zillow survey.

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Home shopping away from your computer? All of Zillow’s  rental listings are also available on the Zillow Mobile application, which has been downloaded more than 2 million times and is the most popular real estate app on the iPhone, Android, iPad and Windows Mobile.

Landlords and property managers, do you have a rental listing that you’d like to post on Zillow? The cost to manually post a home for rent on Zillow is $9.95 per listing. This is called a Featured Listing, which will receive extra exposure in search, and will appear on Zillow for 180 days.

We welcome your feedback as we continue to grow our home shopping experience!