Apartments.com

Apartments.com is the largest United States rental-listings marketplace, owned by CoStar Group since its 2014 acquisition and operated from Arlington, Virginia as the anchor of the Apartments.com Network — a group of consumer rental sites that also includes ApartmentFinder.com, ApartmentHomeLiving.com, ForRent.com, ForRentUniversity.com, WestsideRentals.com, Apartamentos.com, After55.com and CorporateHousing.com. It sits on the demand side of the US residential value chain as an Internet Listing Service (ILS): apartment owners and property managers buy advertising, and their inventory, availability, pricing, media, concessions and fee data flows in from property management systems (Yardi, RealPage, Entrata, MRI, AppFolio, ResMan, Rent Manager, Funnel, EliseAI and others) rather than from any public API, while leads flow back out to the advertiser's CRM. Its API posture is closed. Apartments.com publishes no developer portal, no OpenAPI or OData $metadata contract, no SDK, no webhooks and no Postman collection; developer.apartments.com, developers.apartments.com and docs.apartments.com do not resolve in DNS, and api.apartments.com resolves only to the same Akamai edge that returns HTTP 403 Access Denied to every non-browser request, including robots.txt. The one documented machine-to-machine seam is the Digital Feeds Program — an approval-and-contract path in which an approved third-party feed vendor syndicates a paying advertiser's listings into Apartments.com over FTP using an XML listings feed whose specification guide is available only on request to Feeds@apartments.com. A second inbound seam lets licensed agents opt in to rental-listing syndication through their own MLS (Bright MLS, ARMLS, REcolorado, OneKey MLS, SmartMLS, NorthstarMLS, MLS PIN, Garden State MLS, New Jersey MLS and Aspen Glenwood MLS are documented), which requires MLS membership. On RESO, the honest reading is absence rather than "certified but unreachable": Apartments.com does not appear anywhere in the RESO certificates list, and its own property-manager help centre returns zero results for "RESO". It is a consumer of MLS rental feeds, not a certified RESO endpoint, and no unlicensed open dataset is published.

Apartments.com is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Real Estate, United States, Rentals, Property Listings, and Multifamily.

Apartments.com’s developer surface includes support, documentation, signup flow, legal docs, YouTube channel, and 22 more developer resources.

16.9/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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Real EstateUnited StatesRentalsProperty ListingsMultifamilyInternet Listing ServiceListings SyndicationProperty ManagementMLSPropTechCoStar Group

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 16.9/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 2.6 / 20
Commercial Clarity 6.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Apartments Com Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 4

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 6

The organization behind the API

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: apartments-com
name: Apartments.com
kind: company
description: 'Apartments.com is the largest United States rental-listings marketplace, owned by CoStar Group since its 2014
  acquisition and operated from Arlington, Virginia as the anchor of the Apartments.com Network — a group of consumer rental
  sites that also includes ApartmentFinder.com, ApartmentHomeLiving.com, ForRent.com, ForRentUniversity.com, WestsideRentals.com,
  Apartamentos.com, After55.com and CorporateHousing.com. It sits on the demand side of the US residential value chain as
  an Internet Listing Service (ILS): apartment owners and property managers buy advertising, and their inventory, availability,
  pricing, media, concessions and fee data flows in from property management systems (Yardi, RealPage, Entrata, MRI, AppFolio,
  ResMan, Rent Manager, Funnel, EliseAI and others) rather than from any public API, while leads flow back out to the advertiser''s
  CRM. Its API posture is closed. Apartments.com publishes no developer portal, no OpenAPI or OData $metadata contract, no
  SDK, no webhooks and no Postman collection; developer.apartments.com, developers.apartments.com and docs.apartments.com
  do not resolve in DNS, and api.apartments.com resolves only to the same Akamai edge that returns HTTP 403 Access Denied
  to every non-browser request, including robots.txt. The one documented machine-to-machine seam is the Digital Feeds Program
  — an approval-and-contract path in which an approved third-party feed vendor syndicates a paying advertiser''s listings
  into Apartments.com over FTP using an XML listings feed whose specification guide is available only on request to Feeds@apartments.com.
  A second inbound seam lets licensed agents opt in to rental-listing syndication through their own MLS (Bright MLS, ARMLS,
  REcolorado, OneKey MLS, SmartMLS, NorthstarMLS, MLS PIN, Garden State MLS, New Jersey MLS and Aspen Glenwood MLS are documented),
  which requires MLS membership. On RESO, the honest reading is absence rather than "certified but unreachable": Apartments.com
  does not appear anywhere in the RESO certificates list, and its own property-manager help centre returns zero results for
  "RESO". It is a consumer of MLS rental feeds, not a certified RESO endpoint, and no unlicensed open dataset is published.'
accessModel:
  pricing: enterprise
  onboarding: approval
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Partner-only · Advertising contract + approved feed vendor
  confidence: high
  source:
  - documentation
  generated: '2026-07-26'
  method: manual
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/apartments-com.png
tags:
- Real Estate
- United States
- Rentals
- Property Listings
- Multifamily
- Internet Listing Service
- Listings Syndication
- Property Management
- MLS
- PropTech
- CoStar Group
created: '2026-07-26'
modified: '2026-07-26'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/apartments-com/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
apis: []
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/apartments-com-domain-security.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/apartments-com-conformance.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/apartments-com-packages.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/apartments-com-llms.txt
- type: Website
  url: https://www.apartments.com
- type: About
  url: https://www.apartments.com/about
- type: Parent
  url: https://www.costargroup.com/about-us/brands/apartmentscom
- type: Support
  url: https://propertyhelp.apartments.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://propertyhelp.apartments.com/collection/1044-ils-integrations
- type: Documentation
  url: https://propertyhelp.apartments.com/collection/1201-mls-integrations
- type: Documentation
  url: https://propertyhelp.apartments.com/article/439-what-is-a-feed
- type: Documentation
  url: https://ecom.apartments.com/advertise/resources/listings-feed-program
- type: Partners
  url: https://www.apartments.com/advertise/advfeeds
- type: Contact
  url: mailto:Feeds@apartments.com
- type: Support
  url: https://renterhelp.apartments.com/
- type: Product
  url: https://www.apartments.com/rental-manager
- type: Login
  url: https://www.apartments.com/prosumer/login/
- type: SignUp
  url: https://www.apartments.com/rental-manager/list-property-for-rent
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.apartments.com/grow/about/terms-of-service
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.apartments.com/grow/about/privacy-notice
- type: Legal
  url: https://www.apartments.com/grow/about/legal-terms
- type: Contact
  url: mailto:advertise@apartments.com
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/AptsCom
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/apartments-com
- type: Twitter
  url: https://x.com/apartmentscom
- type: YouTube
  url: https://www.youtube.com/@apartmentscom
- type: Instagram
  url: https://www.instagram.com/apartmentscom/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com