Airbnb Wants To Help You Buy A Home

Home rental service Airbnb wants to help its users become homebuyers. The company announced a partnership with Realtor.com, a website that lists real estate, so that homebuyers can check out the neighborhood ahead of putting down any cash on a place.

“Our relationship with Airbnb—a company that helps millions of people feel at home in communities around the world—allows us to reduce some of the unknown factors associated with relocating to a new community,” according to Ryan O’Hara, CEO of Realtor.com’s parent company Move, in a statement.

With the partnership, Airbnb users can click on a Realtor.com listing and get an option to book a place through the service in the neighborhood, USA Today reported.

“As we offer a variety of unique accommodations in neighborhoods across the country, we’ll be able to allow potential homeowners the special opportunity to experience those neighborhoods as if they already live there – before making the decision to buy,” according to Airbnb’s Chip Conley.