Zumper Takes Aim at Professional and Recreational Nomads

Zumper, known for apartment listings and the occasional data dump of their national cost trends, is expanding in two directions: one to challenge the accommodations listings of a combination travel site and alternative vacation rental; the second to join the still thin list of vendors with short-to-medium term housing rentals for those who have a work-from-home position or who take temporary contracts at different locations, like traveling nurses, and want the freedom to move from one place to another.

The pleasure rental, called Vacations by Zumper, offers a “new vacations destination platform that addresses the gap in technological advancements and industry innovation in this category.” The listings appear to be a compendium of ones available through already existing separate companies, including Evolve and Rentals United.