How to search for your next home

If you’re searching for a new home, real estate agents are the way to go. However, not everyone knows where they want to live, what kind of homes are available, and how much homes are selling for in any given area. The great news is that there are several homebuying apps that allow you to search homes in any area with full disclosure on all metrics needed to inform you during your homebuying experience.

Below are the top homebuying apps available to kickstart your search:

Zillow

Zillow is the most downloaded app on both Apple and Android app stores. Its features include an interactive map as well as value estimation tools.

Zillow is dedicated to empowering consumers with needed data for home purchasing, selling, and renting with real time home availability.

Its most popular feature is the ability to filter your results down to exactly what you want and save individual properties to return to at a later date.

Trulia

Like Zillow, Trulia has an easy-to-use, interactive map that adjusts as you filter and change locations. Trulia combines home searching with neighborhood reviews and agent recommendations to best inform you of your decision.

Its most popular feature is its social media-like nature to poll online users in neighborhoods to feed you what real people are saying about each neighborhood.

Redfin

Redfin is a full-service real estate tool that equips the average home buyer and seller. Unlike Zillow and Trulia, Redfin prides itself of providing you with a Redfin agent to supply you with “full services at every step.” Furthermore, they claim that Redfin technology uploads and posts new information on homes 3x as fast as other means of homebuying.

Its most popular feature is the ability to connect you with a real estate agent and who will provide you with immediate notifications to best fit the home you are interested in.

Homesnap

Homesnap is an app often used by real estate agents, but now available for the homebuyer (or home searcher in your case). The app is impressively accurate and gives immediate, real-time data to showcase property features and generate new ways of searching for homes. Instead of only offering current data on the home, it displays the prior property details from past buyers and sellers such as prior sale prices and when it was last on the market.

Its most popular feature allows homebuyers to take a real-time photo of a home that the app will use to identify the property and display details about multiple sources.