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Homes.com Wins Inman’s 2025 Best of Proptech Awards for Consumer Experience and Marketplace Innovation

Award celebrates the companies at the forefront of property technology innovation who are fundamentally reshaping the residential real estate industry

ARLINGTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Homes.com, a CoStar Group leading online residential marketplace, has been recognized as a 2025 Inman Best of Proptech Award Winner in the Consumer Experience & Marketplace Innovation category. The award recognizes Homes.com’s leadership in transforming the home search experience through technology and direct agent-to-consumer connection.

Homes.com is the fastest growing revenue product CoStar Group has ever launched, with over 26,000 Members, up nearly 150% since Q3 2024, and 7,000 Members joining in Q3 2025 alone. Throughout 2025, Homes.com has launched several new features, ensuring the portal is the most comprehensive, user-friendly platform on the market. This includes Smart Search, an AI-powered feature that allows users to search the way they speak, and Homes.com Boost, a digital marketing package designed to help homeowners sell their homes faster and for more. In September, Homes.com unveiled the industry’s largest builder-verified catalog for new construction, the first tool of its kind available at a national scale.

Homes.com is the first major U.S. real estate portal to focus on helping homeowners and agents leverage the marketing power of the internet to bring more potential buyers to their listings. The site boasts 115 million average monthly visitors as of the third quarter, and ensures that leads stay with the listing agent, helping them build their personal brand and secure more listings.

“Homes.com is redefining how Americans buy and sell homes by restoring trust and transparency to the process. We set out to build a platform that empowers agents and homeowners alike — giving them the tools, data, and exposure they need to succeed in today’s marketplace,” said Andy Florance, CoStar Group Founder & Chief Executive Officer. “Earning Inman’s Best of Proptech Award underscores our commitment to delivering technology that truly serves agents and consumers. At CoStar Group, innovation is only meaningful when it helps our customers thrive and Homes.com is doing exactly that.”

To learn more about the award and see the full list of recipients, please visit: https://www.inman.com/best-of-proptech-awards/.

About Homes.com

Homes.com is the fastest-growing residential real estate marketplace and the second largest portal in the United States. Homes.com is a brand of CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP), a global leader in commercial real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces, which acquired the platform in 2021.

Homes.com is the first major U.S. real estate portal to focus first on helping homeowners and their agents leverage the marketing power of the internet to bring more potential buyers to their listings. Homes.com’s unparalleled content and search capabilities bring millions of buyers and sellers to the site where they can seamlessly connect with agents. On average, Homes.com’s Members are winning 60% more listings* because they offer the home sellers a real estate portal that works for them not against them.

The Homes.com Network reached an audience of 115 million average monthly unique visitors in the third quarter ending September 30, 2025.** Consumer brand awareness skyrocketed from 4% to 33% in just one year since CoStar Group launched the industry’s largest marketing campaign to date in February 2024, reintroducing the platform to the market. For more information, visit Homes.com.

*Based on internal analyses comparing Members to non-Members on Homes.com.

** Homes.com Network (which includes Homes.com, the Apartments Network, and the Land Network) average monthly unique visitors for the quarter ended September 30, 2025, according to Google Analytics.

About CoStar Group

CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a global leader in commercial real estate information, analytics, online marketplaces, and 3D digital twin technology. Founded in 1986, CoStar Group is dedicated to digitizing the world’s real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights, and connections that improve their businesses and lives.

CoStar Group’s major brands include CoStar, a leading global provider of commercial real estate data, analytics, and news; LoopNet, the most trafficked commercial real estate marketplace; Apartments.com, the leading platform for apartment rentals; and Homes.com, the fastest-growing residential real estate marketplace. CoStar Group’s industry-leading brands also include Matterport, a leading spatial data company whose platform turns buildings into data to make every space more valuable and accessible, STR, a global leader in hospitality data and benchmarking, Ten-X, an online platform for commercial real estate auctions and negotiated bids and OnTheMarket, a leading residential property portal in the United Kingdom.

CoStar Group’s websites attracted over 143 million average monthly unique visitors in the third quarter of 2025, serving clients around the world. Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, CoStar Group is committed to transforming the real estate industry through innovative technology and comprehensive market intelligence. From time to time, we plan to utilize our corporate website as a channel of distribution for material company information. For more information, visit CoStarGroup.com.

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