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How AI Is Changing the Way Homes Are Found in Nashville

Stephanie CrawfordStephanie Crawford
Oct 15, 2025 2 min read
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Zillow has officially partnered with ChatGPT. Here’s how AI-powered home searches will change the way Nashville buyers find listings—and what sellers should do to stand out.

Zillow + ChatGPT: How AI Just Changed the Way Homes Are Found

Zillow is now built directly into ChatGPT—marking another big shift in how people search for homes in Nashville and beyond.

What’s New?

Buyers can now use ChatGPT to ask natural-language questions like:

  • “Show me homes for sale near a coffee shop in East Nashville.”
  • “Find homes with fenced yards and sunset views in Brentwood.”

Within seconds, ChatGPT displays matching Zillow listings right inside the chat—no separate browser tab, no scrolling through filters. It’s instant, conversational, and powered by AI.

Why It Matters

For buyers, it’s a new level of convenience. For sellers, it’s a wake-up call.

ChatGPT can only pull what it reads from Zillow’s public listing descriptions. It can’t interpret photos, captions, floor plans, or 3D tours. If your listing description doesn’t clearly spell out the home’s best features—like “walkable to Riverside Village” or “sunny backyard overlooking Radnor Lake”—AI simply won’t see them.

In short: what’s not written doesn’t exist.

How We’re Adapting

At Nesting In Nashville, we’ve always treated listing descriptions as marketing tools—not afterthoughts. But now, they’re becoming part of a larger SEO strategy, not just for buyers on Zillow, but for AI itself.

We’re fine-tuning every word for clarity, context, and discoverability. That means writing descriptions that help both humans and algorithms understand what makes each property special—whether it’s a renovated bungalow in Inglewood or a turnkey home near BNA Airport.

Our goal is simple: make sure your home is visible wherever buyers are searching—on Zillow, Google, or now even in ChatGPT.

The Bottom Line

AI is changing real estate search faster than most realize. And while ChatGPT can connect to Zillow, it still depends entirely on written data. A beautifully staged home with a vague or incomplete description can be invisible to AI.

That’s why we handle our listings differently. Every sentence is designed to surface your property in today’s—and tomorrow’s—digital landscape.

Homes only sell when buyers see them.
We make sure yours does.


If you’re thinking about selling in 2025 and want your home to show up where buyers are actually searching—reach out anytime at [email protected] or call (615) 751-8913.

WRITTEN BY
Stephanie Crawford
Stephanie Crawford
Realtor

Steph is a Nashville native who has been helping homebuyers and sellers throughout Middle Tennessee since 2003. She's the broker/owner of Brokers Cooperative, manages the NestingInNashville.com website, and oversees contracts, negotiations, and marketing from her home office. 

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