About Kouzr
Kouzr is a social home-matching platform. You swipe through the homes in your market, match with whoever you're buying with on the ones you both want, talk them through in one place, and tour the survivors together. Underneath, it pulls each market every day, joins every listing to its county parcel record, and scores it against recent sales on nearby streets — so a match is something you can act on and not just something you both liked the photos of.
It is built to be national and it opened in one metro. Las Vegas is live today; Phoenix and Tampa Bay are next, and which markets are live is always stated plainly rather than implied. The reasoning behind opening one market at a time is in Where Kouzr works.
It is built and run by one person. That is worth saying plainly on a site that asks you to trust its numbers: there is no team here, no investors, and no brokerage. There is a small piece of software, its sources named on every listing it scores, and my name on it.
Why it exists
The portals are built for one person browsing, and almost nobody buys a house alone. That is the first gap and the reason the product looks the way it does; three more follow from their being built for browsing rather than for deciding. Each one is something Kouzr was written to close.
- Two people, two sets of tabs. Every listings site assumes a single reader. So couples, families and partners end up forwarding links, screenshotting price cuts, and losing track of which of them liked what. Kouzr makes that the primary object: you each swipe your own deck, the overlap is a match, every home carries its own comment thread, and after a tour your two ratings sit side by side with the disagreements first.
- You are shown about half the market. A single city-wide search against a major portal API caps out near 860 results on a market with roughly twice that active, and which half you get changes from one pull to the next. A listing can dodge a saved search for weeks. Kouzr pulls daily and sweeps ZIP by ZIP, each query small enough to come in under the cap — a deck built from half a market is a bad deck.
- The listing is the seller's account of the house. The county's is separate: who owns it and where they get their mail, what they paid and when, the assessor's own square footage and year built, and any notice of default or trustee sale on record. Kouzr joins the two, county by county, as each market opens.
- Price history gets reset. Kouzr snapshots every price every day, so days-on-market and price cuts come from what was actually observed — including the quiet cuts and the relists that start the clock over somewhere else.
The longer version of that argument, including how the score is put together, is in Introducing Kouzr.
Who's behind it
I'm Loren Couse, the founder, and I live in the first market Kouzr opened — the parcel records it reads are my own county's, and the comps are streets I have driven. Starting where I could check the output by driving to it is the reason market one is Las Vegas and not somewhere larger. My working life is growth and SEO for a consumer marketplace — unrelated to Kouzr and with no stake in it — which is where the habit of treating a market as a dataset comes from rather than as a feed to scroll. Kouzr started as the tool I wanted while looking at houses myself, and the parts I found hardest to do by hand are the parts it does now.
You can check who I am on LinkedIn, and you can reach me directly at hello@kouzr.com. Mail to that address comes to me, not to a queue.
What I am not: a real-estate agent, a broker, or an appraiser. Kouzr holds no real-estate license and is none of those things either — it is a research tool, and every score it produces is an automated estimate to be checked against your own inspection and your own agent. The terms say this at greater length, and mean it.
The company
Kouzr is operated by Kouzr Inc., a Delaware corporation, from Las Vegas, Nevada — which is where the company is, not the limit of where the product is going. It is self-funded. The product is in early access and free during it; paid plans will come later, and when they do the pricing will be on this site rather than in an email.
Kouzr is not a brokerage and is not affiliated with any multiple listing service. Housing data is handled under a fair-housing policy that keeps protected characteristics, and proxies for them, out of every score and every filter — see the privacy policy for what is collected and how long it is kept.