Time Out · Jul 2025
Time Out covered RentHop’s subway-stop rent map, highlighting that rents rose near most NYC subway stations and summarizing the citywide record-high rent trend.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Overview
RentHop is a New York-based apartment rental marketplace and real-estate data platform that helps renters find higher-quality listings while giving agents, landlords, and property managers tools to advertise and manage rentals via its HopScore ranking, map/list search, and research products. Public sources disagree on exact funding totals, so the exact amount is left unsupported.
Primary product
Apartment rental search and listings platform with HopScore ranking
Founded
2009
Headquarters
Midtown Manhattan, New York, NY, United States
Team size
10-20
Work style
Onsite
Industry
Real Estate
Sub-industry
Residential rental listings marketplace
Offices
Midtown Manhattan, New York, NY, United States (HQ)
Taipei, Taiwan (engineering office)
Business model
listing advertising
subscription plans for agents and landlords
credit packages
listing activation fees
property management services
pro referral program
Funding
Stage
Seed
Latest round
Seed · Apr 2014
People & investors
Leadership
CEO / Co-Founder
Co-Founder
Managing Director
VP Product Engineering
Work & culture
The company describes itself as a small, tight-knit team that cares about both work quality and quality of life, with a practical, data-driven culture and strong in-office collaboration.
Work style
Onsite
Compensation
Public job postings advertise competitive compensation; YC-hosted Taipei engineering roles list $100K salaries and the jobs page highlights benefits and equipment support.
Benefits
competitive compensation
benefits
unlimited snacks and coffee
daily team lunches
equipment stipends
career development
amazing Midtown office space and amenities
Product & market
Pricing
Subscription plans, credit packages, listing activation fees, and advertising plans
Differentiators
- —HopScore ranks listings by freshness, accuracy, completeness, and responsiveness
- —open and exclusive listings marketplace
- —map-based and list-based search with deep filters
- —appointments-on-demand style broker visibility and scheduling
- —data-backed rental research and market studies
- —tools for advertisers, agents, landlords, and property managers
Technology
PHP
MySQL
Flutter
PyTorch
Stripe
API integrations
data feed processing
machine learning
Customers
renters
agents
landlords
property managers
brokers
homeowners
subletters
advertisers
Competitors
Zumper
Zillow Rentals
Apartments.com
Rentberry
Dwellsy
NoBroker
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
USD 10M-20M
Estimated monthly visits
431.1K
Traffic estimate as of Jan 2025
Latest news
RentHop · Jul 2025
RentHop’s 2025 NYC subway rent map found record-high city rents and significant year-over-year increases around many subway stations, especially in the outer boroughs.
RentHop · Jan 2025
RentHop’s annual singles affordability index compared housing burden for single renters across major U.S. cities using census income data and RentHop studio rent data.
RentHop · Nov 2024
RentHop ranked the 100 most expensive U.S. rental ZIP codes using its national rental database and highlighted expensive Boston and New York ZIP codes.
CNBC · Feb 2024
CNBC summarized RentHop’s ranking of the best cities for single young professionals and noted New York and Los Angeles ranked poorly on the index.
Jobs and careers at RentHop
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