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CoStar Launches Homes AI, Refining the Future of Home Shopping

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CoStar Group Inc. launched Homes AI on Feb 17th '26.

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CoStar launches Homes AI, refining the future of home shopping. Homes.com's real-time, voice-enabled AI guidance marks a generational shift in how consumers discover, evaluate and experience homes. Reading Time: 2 mins read CoStar Group on Feb. 17 announced the launch of Homes AI, which the portal calls a transformative experience powered by Microsoft Azure OpenAI, fully integrated into Homes.com, and accessible to all consumers. For the first time on a major real estate portal, according to the company, consumers can engage in natural, real-time, two-way conversations, by voice or text, to search, refine and explore homes in an interactive experience meant to feel less like navigating a website and more like being guided by a deeply knowledgeable, trusted real estate advisor. Homes AI draws from Homes.com's depth of property data, Matterport 3D digital twin technology, images, proprietary school data, neighborhood insights and market intelligence to deliver bespoke guidance that empowers shoppers with the resources and confidence they need to find the perfect home. Offered exclusively on Homes.com, this technology is supposed to mark "a generational leap forward" according to the company, in how people navigate the home search and home-buying process. "This innovation signals a shift as significant as the emergence of online search itself," said Andy Florance...

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Launch

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Product
Homes AI
Takes effect
Feb 17, 2026

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Launches

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  • future tech

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Confidence
61%
Detected
Feb 17, 2026
signal_type
news
signal_subtype
launches

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