5 Best Real Estate Apps for Home Buyers

5 Best Real Estate Apps for Home Buyers

By siliconindia   |   Monday, August 18, 2014


Bangalore : Now-a-days, technology tools are remodeling the real estate industry background by giving wealth of information to home buyers at their fingertips. They give you the facility to win over clients and simplify the paperwork with a few taps. There are mobile applications that allow you to search listings, designs, cost and neighborhood. These real estate apps bring more awareness to potential buyers than ever before. Real estate applications will help users in buying as well as selling properties online and offline through the listings. There are lots of useful tools that can help real estate agents work faster and more competently in the field.

According to the recent study 68 percent of the potential home buyers are using mobile apps for hunting a home. A lot of useful apps are built recently and by using these apps, you can shoot videos and compass natural light and can also take measurements.

Application:  Realtor.com

Compatible with: iOS 7.0, iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch

New version: 1.4.1

This is one of the best apps, which include up to date real estate listings in the U.S, including recently sold apartments, houses or flats for sale and rent. The app refreshes 90 percent of its listings every 15 minutes while the rest is updated at least once a day. This app can instantly access over 3 million homes for sale. It harnesses the robust search and mapping facility with area highlighter, area scout, fore closures and nearby homes for sale. Each listing offers spot prices, multiple photos of open homes, homes for sale, recently sold homes, apartments for rent, houses, neighbor homes, rented homes and enhanced property details instantly. The property listing includes property taxes, history and school information for each house. It allows you to share your desired listings with friends.

Application:  Zillow

Compatible with: iOS 6.0, iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch

New version: 7.5.5562

Being as a leading real estate networks it introduces information on rentals homes, flats, homes for sale, apartments and others. There is an availability to find any breed of homes for sale & rent and Zillow has rental listing for any sort of property like Apartments, single family homes, condos, town homes and many more. One can get foreclosure listings in your area, comprising foreclosures auctions, pre-foreclosures and bank owned properties. There is an option to filter searches by price trends, beds, keywords, baths etc.  The new Zillow real estate app for iPhone assimilate a new photo shopping experience for a smaller screen and it allows buyers to slide through thumbnail sized photos of their search results without leaving the map.

Application:  Trulia

Compatible with: iOS 7.0, iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch

New version: 7.4.1

Trulia gives detailed information to individuals, who are hunting for a place to stay permanently or temporarily. This provides inside scoop of properties, location and real estate professionals. With this application users can see the nearest homes, apartments for sale or rent, nearest restaurants, educational institutions, grocery stores, directions, crime maps, local scoops, open houses and many. Moreover, this app will allow you to search houses with latest price discounts for you to make a decision by comparing the best price homes. Trulia app will keep you updated when new homes/apartments arrive into market. Real estate experts use Trulia to connect with millions of transactions ready buyers and sellers every month.

Application:  Redfin

Compatible with: iPod Touch (3rd generation or later), iPhone 3Gs, iPhone 4, iPad and iTunes account is required

New version: 5.0

The Redfin app is powered by Multi Listing Service; this gives very quick and accurate mobile search experience in real estate. Redfin will be updated for every 15-30 minutes and advertises all of its listings signify homes that are actually for sale. This app offers you to search homes near the schools, open spaces and school districts. There is an availability to share your favorite homes through text message, social media and email. Redfin revamped the application to find and catch homes easily; you can navigate the app via three tabs.

Application: Zip Realty

Compatible with: iPhone 3Gs, I Phone 4, iTunes account is required

New version: 4.4

Zip Realty is the best actual and perfect home search application within the iTunes store. This will be updated their listings for every 2 minutes. This home has most accurate, up–to-date data. This real estate firm app provides 30 percent more homes than other real estate apps.

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