Zillow Revolutionizes Home Search with Advanced AI-Powered Features

Zillow's AI wants to help you find the dream home you didn't know you wanted

Pick a spot you want to live near and the AI will handle the rest Zillow is boosting its AI search tool to end the tedious filtering of locations and other elements. Now you can just ask for a place within a travel distance of a location and it will handle the rest for you. The upgraded AI tools, available on the Zillow mobile app, rely on casual language rather than drop-downs and other menus. The idea is that you won't have to specify affordability, proximity to schools, commute time, and related matters. You can just explain what you want as though you are talking to a human. For instance, Zillow described how you could ask for "homes 30 minutes from Millennium Park," "3-bedroom houses near Roosevelt High School," or "apartments near Denver Union Station" for properties within a certain distance to your office, a good school, or a park you like. The point is to make it more intuitive to find your ideal home. It's a linguistic upgrade to Zillow's current AI features, which currently perform tasks such as estimating a home's value and sharing AI-powered Showcase listings that tour within a house. "From streamlining the home search to personalizing the user experience, Zillow applies AI in practical ways to help people get home," said Zillow senior vice president of AI Josh Weisberg. "Search is one of the bedrocks of our platform, and we're always improving it to make it easier for users to find homes that meet their unique needs." As AI becomes increasingly integrated into platforms like Zillow, the home search process could become less painful, even if the idea of home-buying being easy seems more like a hallucination than anything an AI has produced. Zillow's AI will also use the conversations and requests people submit for further training. Zillow claims that as more people use the platform, the AI will be better at pinpointing the places people might actually want to buy or rent. There's no telling if real estate agents will consider Zillow's AI upgrade a win because it could shorten the home search process or a problem because it might undercut the relationship they're trying to build with potential home buyers. "The rise of AI in the real estate sector signals a broader shift in how people will search for homes in the future," Weisberg said. AI could ultimately make the home search process more personalized and efficient. But don't expect it to do anything about your down payment.

Zillow's upgraded AI search will show you more homes you can't afford

Zillow is upgrading its AI search feature with the ability to find homes or rentals based on how far away they are from your office, school, or other points of interest. Instead of narrowing your search by selecting specific locations or filters, you can now simply enter, "Homes 30 min drive from Millennium Park." This will be very handy for people like me. I'm always searching for dream homes in spots that I'm not familiar with. Now, I'll be able to search for "homes near Disney World" rather than casting a huge net over the entirety of Orlando. Zillow will also let you search for homes to buy or rent based on affordability, such as "Seattle homes under $4,000 monthly." Zillow first rolled out AI search last year, allowing you to look for homes by describing their layout, location, style, condition, and more. But this update gives you more specific ways to peruse listings based on proximity to certain locations and pricing. Zillow says its enhanced search feature "takes users' queries and scans millions of listing details to bring relevant results to the surface" while also training AI models to "better respond to search queries that use natural, human-like sentences." It's rolling out to Zillow's iOS and Android apps now, with support on Zillow's website coming soon.

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Home shoppers and renters can now search by commute, affordability, schools and points of interest in the Zillow app , /PRNewswire/ -- Zillow's AI-powered search experience is getting an upgrade. Now buyers and renters can search for their next home using simple, everyday language in even more ways " including by commute time, affordability, schools and nearby points of interest. Through natural language search, Zillow analyzes millions of listings to deliver the most relevant homes or rentals personalized to the user's preferences. Zillow ® is the first and only major residential real estate marketplace to implement this advanced, AI-powered search experience. Starting today, users can skip the filters and search in the Zillow app by simply describing their ideal home, just as they would when talking to a friend. They can specify details such as layout, location and style " and now have new options to search by commute time, affordability, schools and nearby points of interest. Users can also save their searches and have Zillow notify them when new qualifying listings come online. "From streamlining the home search to personalizing the user experience, Zillow applies AI in practical ways to help people get home," said , senior vice president of artificial intelligence. "Search is one of the bedrocks of our platform, and we're always improving it to make it easier for users to find homes that meet their unique needs." This upgrade is now live on the Zillow app for iOS ® and Android™ devices, and will be coming soon to Zillow.com. Zillow's enhanced search takes users' queries and scans millions of listing details to bring relevant results to the surface. At the same time, the feature is training machine learning models to better respond to search queries that use natural, human-like sentences. To use this enhanced search, simply open the most up-to-date version of the Zillow app and type criteria for a home into the search bar. Users can now find their ideal home or rental by typing prompts like: Many of Zillow's most impactful features are powered by AI and machine learning, including the neural Zestimate ® valuation, personalized home recommendations and unique AI-powered Showcase " listings, each of which gives shoppers a deep understanding of the home virtually before they ever step inside. About Zillow Group (NASDAQ:ZG): Zillow Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: Z and ZG) is reimagining real estate to make home a reality for more and more people. As the most visited real estate website in , Zillow and its affiliates help people find and get the home they want by connecting them with digital solutions, dedicated partners and agents, and easier buying, selling, financing and renting experiences. Zillow Group's affiliates, subsidiaries and brands include Zillow ®, Zillow Premier Agent ®, Zillow Home Loans " , Trulia ®, Out East ®, StreetEasy ®, HotPads ®, ShowingTime+ " , Spruce ® and Follow Up Boss ®.

Zillow enhanced its AI search feature, so now you can sadly stare at even more overpriced homes

The American dream used to involve purchasing a home. As huge corporations buy up residential stock and wages lay stagnant, the new American dream is to scroll through Zillow and salivate at what could have been, if only we had been born into one of those families with money. To that end, Zillow just upped its AI game to make it easier to find a dream home that you'll never be able to afford. The popular real estate marketplace integrated some AI tools into its search feature last year, but it just released a fairly substantial software update that brings in more options. Users can now use natural language to find homes or rentals based on commute times or how far they are from schools or other points of interest. Before conversational AI, people would have to use filters to come up with a list of appropriate domiciles. Now, you can just write "homes 20 min drive from Red Hook" and get some good listings. This should also be useful for areas with popular destinations. For instance, you could write "homes near Mall of America" instead of combing through every Minneapolis-adjacent listing. Today's update also lets the AI algorithm search by cost, so you can add preferred pricing into the query. The AI-enhanced search already included the option to look for homes by ideal layout, location, style and condition. It's the money and commute stuff that's new. As with all things AI, Zillow's tool is still a work in progress. It'll be training itself as it's being used so as to "better respond to search queries that use natural, human-like sentences." You should also be on the lookout for hallucinations. If it seems too good to be true, it likely is. In any event, the update's rolling out now to the iOS and Android apps, with website support coming soon. The platform has never been shy about incorporating tech into its feature set. It introduced 3D virtual home tours a few years back. More recently, the company integrated with FaceTime's SharePlay feature to allow for cooperative browsing.

Zillow expands AI home search capabilities in tech race among major real estate portals

Zillow says users of its AI-powered residential real-estate search feature will be able reference additional criteria when searching for homes using natural language, including commute time, schools, nearby points of interest, and affordability. It's part of a broader competition among major real estate portals to roll out new artificial intelligence capabilities. Others including Redfin and Realtor.com have introduced a variety of AI features of their own over the past couple of years, including AI assistants and other capabilities in addition to search tools. With its latest update, the company says people searching for homes on its portal will have additional options. Examples cited by the company include commute time ("Homes 30 min drive from Millennium Park"), points of interest ("Apartments near Denver Union Station"), and schools ("3-bedroom houses near Roosevelt High School.") Zillow released the first version of its AI home search in January 2023. Rich Barton, the Zillow Group co-founder and co-executive chair, said in a recent interview with GeekWire that Zillow and other major residential real estate portals haven't yet found a "magic bullet" in their AI features for users. "We haven't really seen anything really break through there yet, but I'm 100% certain we will," Barton said, as part of a larger discussion with new Zillow Group CEO Jeremy Wacksman, who succeeded Barton in the role.

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*Terms and conditions apply. Visit Nada's website for more details. Home shoppers and renters can now search by commute, affordability, schools and points of interest in the Zillow app SEATTLE, Sept. 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Zillow's AI-powered search experience is getting an upgrade. Now buyers and renters can search for their next home using simple, everyday language in even more ways -- including by commute time, affordability, schools and nearby points of interest. Through natural language search, Zillow analyzes millions of listings to deliver the most relevant homes or rentals personalized to the user's preferences. Zillow® is the first and only major residential real estate marketplace to implement this advanced, AI-powered search experience. Starting today, users can skip the filters and search in the Zillow app by simply describing their ideal home, just as they would when talking to a friend. They can specify details such as layout, location and style -- and now have new options to search by commute time, affordability, schools and nearby points of interest. Users can also save their searches and have Zillow notify them when new qualifying listings come online. "From streamlining the home search to personalizing the user experience, Zillow applies AI in practical ways to help people get home," said Josh Weisberg, senior vice president of artificial intelligence. "Search is one of the bedrocks of our platform, and we're always improving it to make it easier for users to find homes that meet their unique needs." This upgrade is now live on the Zillow app for iOS® and Android™ devices, and will be coming soon to Zillow.com. Zillow's enhanced search takes users' queries and scans millions of listing details to bring relevant results to the surface. At the same time, the feature is training machine learning models to better respond to search queries that use natural, human-like sentences. To use this enhanced search, simply open the most up-to-date version of the Zillow app and type criteria for a home into the search bar. Users can now find their ideal home or rental by typing prompts like: Commute: "Homes 30 min drive from Millennium Park"POI: "Apartments near Denver Union Station"Affordability: "Austin homes under $400,000" or "Seattle homes under $4,000 monthly"Schools: "3-bedroom houses near Roosevelt High School" Many of Zillow's most impactful features are powered by AI and machine learning, including the neural Zestimate® valuation, personalized home recommendations and unique AI-powered Showcase℠ listings, each of which gives shoppers a deep understanding of the home virtually before they ever step inside. About Zillow Group: Zillow Group, Inc. Z is reimagining real estate to make home a reality for more and more people. As the most visited real estate website in the United States, Zillow and its affiliates help people find and get the home they want by connecting them with digital solutions, dedicated partners and agents, and easier buying, selling, financing and renting experiences. Zillow Group's affiliates, subsidiaries and brands include Zillow®, Zillow Premier Agent®, Zillow Home Loans℠, Trulia®, Out East®, StreetEasy®, HotPads®, ShowingTime+℠, Spruce® and Follow Up Boss®. All marks herein are owned by MFTB Holdco, Inc., a Zillow affiliate. Zillow Home Loans, LLC is an Equal Housing Lender, NMLS #10287 (www.nmlsconsumeraccess.org). © 2024 MFTB Holdco, Inc., a Zillow affiliate. (ZFIN) View original content to download multimedia:https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/zillows-ai-powered-home-search-gets-smarter-with-new-natural-language-features-302237266.html SOURCE Zillow Market News and Data brought to you by Benzinga APIs