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The battle between real estate listing giants Compass and Zillow heated up on two fronts recently.

Nearly 5 engaged home shoppers are competing for every listing, but affordability headwinds are weighing on sales Engaged home shoppers — Zillow users who save or share a for-sale listing — were up 21% year over year this past spring, at 4.8 shoppers per listing nationally. Buffalo, Providence and Hartford had the most engaged shoppers per listing; Houston, Miami and San Antonio had the fewest.

Zillow Senior Vice President of Engineering Toby Roberts joins the GeekWire Podcast to discuss what AI is changing about buying and selling homes, from AI agents working alongside real estate agents to the company's integration with ChatGPT.

In all 50 major U.S. metros, typical rent is less than the typical monthly cost of homeownership, giving renters a financial cushion According to the Zillow Observed Rent Index, the typical U.S. rent is $1,948 a month. The typical new home buyer's monthly payment is $3,014, a difference of $1,066 a month or $12,792 a year.

With permitting at a post-pandemic low, the housing shortage at the root of today's affordability crisis could deepen Residential building permits fell 1.7% in the year ending July 2026 and are now running a record 19.4% below the pre-pandemic trend line. Detached single-family home completions dropped 2.5% in 2025 to about 817,000, the third consecutive annual decline and the lowest total sinc...

Zillow expects continued softness in the for-sale market, with newly pending sales and inventory growth both decelerating as affordability challenges push demand toward rentals Home sales fell 0.6% year over year in August, a deceleration from July's 6% annual gain, according to Zillow's August Market Report. Newly pending listings, a leading indicator of future closings, fell 2.6% year over ye...

Zillow data reveals which rental markets are drawing the most outside interest and where demand may be heading next Outside interest is growing fastest in Buffalo, Chicago and Houston, where out-of-town rental search shares grew the most year over year. In established hotspots — Raleigh (59%), Hartford (55%), New Orleans (54%) and Nashville (52%) — outside rental searchers outnumber local renta...

Zillow has reported nearly 2 million on-time rent payments to credit bureaus for free since launching its rent reporting program in 2024 In July, more than 78,000 renters who paid on time through Zillow had their payments reported to credit bureaus. That's 26% more than a year ago, reflecting strong demand for tools that translate rent into credit history.