New Features Come Just in Time to Support Renters and Property Owners Everywhere During COVID-19 Outbreak
San Francisco, CA (March 19, 2020) – Zumper, the largest privately-held rental marketplace in the U.S., announced today the launch of online tour features to enable renters to easily tour properties for rent, with the confidence they would get from an in person tour.
Zumper’s mission is to make renting an apartment as easy as booking a hotel by seamlessly connecting renters and properties through the rental journey from search to close. With the current state of affairs amidst the COVID-19 outbreak, in-person touring has essentially come to a halt. To adapt to this new environment, Zumper’s new free online tour features will give renters new, safe, and efficient options when searching for an apartment. For managers and owners in the rental market, these new online tour features equip owners and operators with more tools to quickly fill vacancies at this uncertain time.
Zumper has built the following features into the product to support the rental search experience during the COVID-19 outbreak:
- Badges and filters representing live, online virtual touring capabilities via FaceTime, Skype, or Google Hangouts
- Badges representing multimedia tour options, like YouTube video tours and 3D images
- In-product language encouraging renters to ask about remote or virtual tours and notifying them if a property already offers virtual tours
“These are unprecedented times and we are all having to adapt,” said Anthemos Georgiades, CEO and Co-Founder of Zumper. “We are encouraging the entire Zumper community to follow federal and local health guidelines and social distancing is critical right now. To support both renters and property owners, we quickly rolled out these new features to help replace in-person tours.”
You can find app screenshots here and examples of listings with video tours and virtual tours live on Zumper now.
Zumper is the first end-to-end marketplace for renters, landlords, and multifamily properties. Zumper offers renters the ability to find, apply for and then book their next apartment, as well as digitally pay their landlord their rent, all in one place. For small landlords and multi-family properties, Zumper provides confidence and convenience through the entire rental transaction; from helping find reliable tenants, marketing to millions of active renters, to collecting rent.
To learn more about Zumper, search for a property to rent, or list a property, visit Zumper.com or download the Zumper app on your iOS or Android device.
About Zumper, Inc.
Zumper aims to make renting an apartment as easy as booking a hotel. With 13 million visits per month, Zumper’s free online and mobile rental search marketplace has become the largest startup in the industry. Headquartered in San Francisco, Zumper has more than 200 employees across the U.S. and acquired PadMapper in 2016. The company has raised a total of $150 million in funding from investors including e.ventures, Greycroft, Dawn Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Goodwater Capital, Axel Springer, Stereo Capital, the Blackstone Group, Breyer Capital, Foxhaven Asset Management, Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock, NEA, CrunchFund, xfund, Divco West, MMC Technology Ventures, Scott Cook, and the DeWilde Family Trust. Learn more at Zumper.com or email press@zumper.com.
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