Apps for Buying Your Home

With millions of Americans carrying Smartphones these days, would it make home buying and home selling different in today’s market? No more printed papers with addresses, descriptions and photos. Homebuyers today can download everything instantly into their Smartphone.

There are apps that simplify the search of properties with complete GPS technology to locate homes for sale. No need to go to MapQuest and find the driving direction or search for hours for a home in the town you plan to buy.

Here are 5 IPhone real estate apps that you can download for free. Make sure you use it and get me to show you those houses that meet your criteria in Livingston or other Northern NJ towns:

Weichert Realtors app: You need to open a myWeichert account to take advantage of all the features that are in the app. After you open the account you have the availability of myWorkbook:

• Create a group of homes, it could be the number of bedrooms, the same town.
• Add notes about the group.
• Continue adding more homes into the same group.
• Share information about the homes you like to friends and family with a touch of email, Facebook or Twitter.
• Upload the photos of the homes you are interested.
• GPS – while you are viewing a home in a particular neighborhood you can use the GPS to scan for homes in that area that are for sale or have open houses (within a 2 miles radius).
• GPS - gives you driving directions.
• You get listing details: the price, year built, taxes, county, address and type of home.

REALTOR.com app: Search over 3 million homes, updated every 15 minutes. If you sign-in with REALTOR.com you can create and save your favorite listings, create and save notes and give the homes you view your own ratings. It also gives details of the listing just like those printed on papers.

Zillow.com app: Zillow has a feature called Zestimate that none of the apps have. Zestimate gives you an estimated value of the homes in the area you are searching for. Separate searches by price, or number of bedrooms or bathrooms.

Trulia.com app: Trulia.com app features nearby restaurants, grocery stores and other facilities in the area you are searching for homes. It even shows you how much the house was reduced in price.

NJAR Real Estate app: New Jersey Association of REALTORS app shows you the latest news and mortgage information and rates.

These are 5 iPhone apps that can assist you with your home buying adventures in Livingston. The apps will simplify your search, however you still need to work with an agent that you know and that you have built a relationship with. The apps are just giving you necessary information but to truly know the place and home you want to own … you need to speak to a realtor and be physically present in that home and the community.