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11 Real Estate Online Tools for Home Buyers and Property Sellers

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No matter you want to buy a new home, sell your old apartment or rent a room, can you do it without the help of the Internet? Sounds pretty tough right? Fortunately there are tons of resources on the web to help you dealing with anything related to real-estate, from home searching to renovation tips. Here we’ve gathered our favorite real-property online services where you can look for your dream home, determine the most strategic location, compare whether buying or renting, check your affordability, choose reliable agent or broker, find high ROI deals and many more.

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Zillow
Zillow is a widely-used real property search engine that lets you find your dream home and perfect investment, check estimated rental and home values, calculate mortgages and many more. The site provides extensive and detailed real estate information in the US.
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Yahoo! Homes
Yahoo! Homes is a popular real estate site to search home for sale, check home value, do housing market research, as well as apply home loan. The site also provides you a variety of tips on how to reduce monthly mortgage payment, how to refinance, bargain renovations, and many more.

Craigslist
Craigslist is a famous classified ads site where you can find almost everything. Real estate wise, you can look for apartments, office, parking, rooms, storage, and others. If you are agent or broker, Craigslist is a great place for you to post property listing for free.

Redfin
This is another well known real estate online platform for home sellers and buyers. The site combines property listings with detailed analytics and tax records on an aerial map of cities in the US. In addition, buyers can use its mortgage calculator to check how much the repayment is based on their credit and term.

HotPads
HotPads is a map-based real estate search engine that lets you find home for sale and list houses/rooms for rent. It site has other real estate resources including foreclosure search and heat maps, renters guide, buyer guide, buy vs. rent calculator, insurance center and many more.
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Trulia
Trulia is another real estate site where you can find homes for sale, real property market trends and statistics. The site also provides information about agents, schools, crime rate, neighbourhoods and other local community Help & FAQ.

Google Maps
When it comes to real property search, Google Maps is a must-have tool helping you to find the right home, office or shop with the perfect location. The free service not only enables you to view the listing results on the maps but also lets you understand the surrounding area of the property via Street View and satellite imagery. Additionally, you can check the live traffic condition (slow or fast) on the roads of your target area.
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PadMapper
PadMapper is a map-based tool that helps users to find the right apartment and sublet to rent. The tool basically gathers all the houses, apartments and rental listings from various real estate websites as well classified ads site like Craigslist, and displays them on Google map. Users can make use of its filters to narrow down the places/houses depending how they set their home hunting requirements. If you prefer to use the service through your smartphone, try its mobile app: PadMapper app for iPhone & PadMapper app for Android.
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Home Affordability Calculator
MSN Real Estate has a home affordability calculator that allows you to check how much home you can afford. The online tool calculates your monthly income, assets and debt obligations including credit card debt, auto loans, child support, etc. to determine what amount of mortgage you could be entitled to.

Buy or Rent Calculator
The New York Times’s calculator comes in handy for those who can’t decide whether renting a home is better than buying one. It enables you to compare the prices of both while considering the factors like ROI (return on investment), common charges, length of mortgage, maintenance and renovation costs, insurance rate, etc.
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HomeThinking
Different from other real property search engine, HomeThinking is helpful for finding the right realtor, agent and broker for both home seller and buyer. The site allows you to check the sales records and reputation about each agent. It also shows you what customers have said about the job they did in the past.

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