First Home Buying

Looking online is a convenient way to gauge what the market is like, so I’ve provided a list of some of my favorite sites for housing information. Below that is a little piece on what your next step should be once you’ve exhausted your list of online destinations.

Realtor.com
A good place to start. You can find a listing of homes in any town or zip code, along with pictures and descriptions of rooms, features, age, square footage, and a host of other information.

Redfin.com
Map-based site that is MLS-powered to show listing information based on location and address. Search based on price range, zip code, city and state, or any combination of criteria. A great feature of this site is that when you’re looking on a top-town map of a given area, an icon is shown for each listing in that area. Hovering over the icon gives you a pop-up that displays the list price and the number of beds/baths.

Live Maps
This isn’t a real estate website, but it has great overhead and birdseye view maps so that if you find a home listing you can check out the property and the surrounding neighborhood.