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.
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Real EstateUnited StatesRentalsProperty ListingsMultifamilyInternet Listing ServiceListings SyndicationProperty ManagementMLSPropTechCoStar Group
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
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