Top 3 iOS Apps for Home or Apartment Shopping in 2013
Top iOS Apps in 2013 for Finding a Home or Apartment
Imagine driving by a home or apartment that's for rent and immediately getting photos, price and neighborhood details on your iPhone or iPad. When you're looking for a place to live, getting this information quickly and being able to search areas for homes or apartments that match your needs saves a lot of time and helps tremendously with making some big decisions. Here are my picks for 2014 for iPhone apps that help when you go house or apartment hunting:
Zillow Apps
Real Estate by Zillow
The Zillow Real Estate iPhone app is the grandfather of real estate search apps, considering that the first version was released in 2009. This app also works with iPod Touch and iPad.
Real Estate by Zillow provides information about over 100 million homes and apartments that are for sale or for rent, including properties that are about to go into foreclosure, have been foreclosed and homes that have recently sold in an area.
The app utilizes your iPhone's GPS to search the location you are in or you can set the area searched.
This iPhone app gives you a Zestimate for each property, which is an estimated market value of a home based on a calculation that includes public and user submitted data. Rent Zestimates are estimated average monthly rent for a property, and are complimented by the Rent Range, which gives a high and low range for a rental.
Save your search criteria and get notifications on your iOS device when new listings that fit your search become available or are sold, or when an open house has been scheduled. Mortgage calculators and updated mortgage rates come with Zillow Real Estate, too.
Zillow Rentals
If you want an app that's just for searching rental properties, this iPhone app gives you access to thousands of listings. Of course, Rent Zestimates, described above in Zillow Real Estate details, are included.
Zillow Rentals includes information about neighborhood stores and services and uses GPS to search rentals in an area, and defined searches can be saved to use later.
You can contact a potential landlord directly from the app.
The app works with iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. Use the link below to verify generations and iOS required. At the time this was written, user reviews noted that the Zillow Rentals database was primarily homes for sale, and not apartments.
Mortgage Calculator & Mortgage Rates by Zillow
This app gives you mortgage rates and calculators to help with home buying decisions and with refinancing a mortgage. Calculations include monthly mortgage payments, refinancing costs and a determination of whether you can afford a property. Customized loan quotes can be viewed side by side, and you can contact a lender directly from the app.
Mortgage Calculator & Mortgage Rates works with iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad, and requires iOS 5.0 or later.
Snap a photo of a home with your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad to get up-to-date prices and information about the property, and share the homes with anyone and view MLS data. Homesnap can check the value of over 90 million home in the U.S., with customized search options with filters for neighborhood, price, and interactive maps. Searches as well as your favorite homes can be saved and your snaps will be updated when information changes.
Homesnap says it will give you many more homes listed by real estate agents than other national portals, and you can get email alerts when new listings come on the market that match your search criteria.
Real Estate by Trulia
Use Trulia's Real Estate iPhone app to search for homes by setting up filters to find listings for homes or apartments with photos that interest you, then save your favorite finds to get real-time updates on those properties. You also get alerts when new listings are added that match your search criteria.
Maps show homes for sale, rentals and open houses in a given area, as well as school and crime ratings and restaurant, stores and school locations.
The app allows you to contact real estate agents quickly.
Trulia Rentals
If you're only interested in finding a home or apartment for rent, Trulia Rentals was designed specifically for you. The latest homes and apartments that are available for rent are served up through this app, with the same details as the Real Estate app, except that you can contact landlords and rental property managers from the app.
Imagine driving by a home or apartment that's for rent and immediately getting photos, price and neighborhood details on your iPhone or iPad. When you're looking for a place to live, getting this information quickly and being able to search areas for homes or apartments that match your needs saves a lot of time and helps tremendously with making some big decisions. Here are my picks for 2014 for iPhone apps that help when you go house or apartment hunting:
- Zillow Real Estate, Rentals, and Mortgage Calculator and Mortgage Rates
- Homesnap for iOS
- Trulia Real Estate and Rentals
Zillow Apps
Real Estate by Zillow
The Zillow Real Estate iPhone app is the grandfather of real estate search apps, considering that the first version was released in 2009. This app also works with iPod Touch and iPad.
Real Estate by Zillow provides information about over 100 million homes and apartments that are for sale or for rent, including properties that are about to go into foreclosure, have been foreclosed and homes that have recently sold in an area.
The app utilizes your iPhone's GPS to search the location you are in or you can set the area searched.
This iPhone app gives you a Zestimate for each property, which is an estimated market value of a home based on a calculation that includes public and user submitted data. Rent Zestimates are estimated average monthly rent for a property, and are complimented by the Rent Range, which gives a high and low range for a rental.
Save your search criteria and get notifications on your iOS device when new listings that fit your search become available or are sold, or when an open house has been scheduled. Mortgage calculators and updated mortgage rates come with Zillow Real Estate, too.
- Cost: Free
- Zillow Real Estate in the iTunes Store
Zillow Rentals
If you want an app that's just for searching rental properties, this iPhone app gives you access to thousands of listings. Of course, Rent Zestimates, described above in Zillow Real Estate details, are included.
Zillow Rentals includes information about neighborhood stores and services and uses GPS to search rentals in an area, and defined searches can be saved to use later.
You can contact a potential landlord directly from the app.
The app works with iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. Use the link below to verify generations and iOS required. At the time this was written, user reviews noted that the Zillow Rentals database was primarily homes for sale, and not apartments.
- Cost: Free
- Zillow Rentals in the iTunes Store
Mortgage Calculator & Mortgage Rates by Zillow
This app gives you mortgage rates and calculators to help with home buying decisions and with refinancing a mortgage. Calculations include monthly mortgage payments, refinancing costs and a determination of whether you can afford a property. Customized loan quotes can be viewed side by side, and you can contact a lender directly from the app.
Mortgage Calculator & Mortgage Rates works with iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad, and requires iOS 5.0 or later.
- Cost: Free
- More details about Zillow Mortgage Calculator & Rates
- Zillow Mortgage Calculator & Mortgage Rates in the iTunes Store
- Zillow.com Online App
Snap a photo of a home with your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad to get up-to-date prices and information about the property, and share the homes with anyone and view MLS data. Homesnap can check the value of over 90 million home in the U.S., with customized search options with filters for neighborhood, price, and interactive maps. Searches as well as your favorite homes can be saved and your snaps will be updated when information changes.
Homesnap says it will give you many more homes listed by real estate agents than other national portals, and you can get email alerts when new listings come on the market that match your search criteria.
- Cost: Free
- Homesnap Real Estate App iTunes preview
Real Estate by Trulia
Use Trulia's Real Estate iPhone app to search for homes by setting up filters to find listings for homes or apartments with photos that interest you, then save your favorite finds to get real-time updates on those properties. You also get alerts when new listings are added that match your search criteria.
Maps show homes for sale, rentals and open houses in a given area, as well as school and crime ratings and restaurant, stores and school locations.
The app allows you to contact real estate agents quickly.
- Cost: Free
- Real Estate by Trulia app iTunes preview
Trulia Rentals
If you're only interested in finding a home or apartment for rent, Trulia Rentals was designed specifically for you. The latest homes and apartments that are available for rent are served up through this app, with the same details as the Real Estate app, except that you can contact landlords and rental property managers from the app.
- Cost: Free
- Trulia Rentals app iTunes preview
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