Zillow Announces Google Gemini Partnership for Rental Properties

Zillow has partnered with Google's Gemini AI to enable renters in the United States to find rental properties on a single platform.

Writing on LinkedIn, Michael Sherman, SVP Rentals at Zillow, commented: "Starting today, renters can find Zillow listings and book tours directly in Google Gemini."

"Most renters don't search in one place. They're bouncing between apps, tabs, and texts to friends, restarting the process every time they switch. This closes one of those gaps.

"Zillow Rentals is the first real estate platform with a connected app inside Gemini. A renter finds a tour time that works, and it gets booked through Zillow, no app switch required. Done.

"This works because we have spent years building experiences across live touring data, real-time scheduling and great relationships with our partners. Gemini is just a new door into all of it. Zillow shows up wherever renters are already looking, and this trend will continue!"

A blog on Google's website says Gemini Spark integrations have also been launched with Canva, Dropbox, Instacart and OpenTable across web and mobile.

The post said:

We’re bringing Spark to the Gemini macOS app to help you automate time-consuming tasks across your desktop. Gemini Spark [moves] beyond the chat window, and tackle the heavy lifting across your desktop files and apps. For example, you can turn hours of manual file sorting into an instant action by asking Gemini Spark to sort all the PDFs in your Downloads into specific folders.

And coming soon, you’ll even be able to run tasks remotely. You can assign a multi-step task to Gemini Spark from your phone—like asking it to find a specific sales report on your Mac, pull the total revenue number, and email it to you—and let it execute the work on your computer while you're away.

Rental properties have become a major focus for portals like Zillow and CoStar Group, both of which have doubled down on growing their respective Rentals segments in recent years.

In Q1, Zillow Rentals' revenue was $183 million, up 42%, driven by a 57% increase in multifamily revenue, while CoStar's rentals portal Apartments.com posted its 15th consecutive quarter of double-digit growth, with revenue up 10% to $312 million for the quarter.