Sunday, October 28, 2007

HouseMath Real Estate Analysis

HouseMath.us is great website, that helps you calculate the taxes, rent costs, buying and selling costs, future value of a series of payments and lots of other things related to buying a home. You can find many financial calculators on the Internet but this one is the only one that allows a potential home buyer to do sophisticated financial analysis. All you have to do is to pick a location,
(sp far these are the options: Boston House, Miami Condo, Chicago House,Las Vegas House, Las Vegas Condo, L.A. Condo, L.A. House, New York House, New York Condo, New York Coop, San Francisco House, San Francisco Condo, Seattle Condo, Seattle House, Dallas House), enter pricing and mortgage details, appreciation and return expectations, tax information, closing costs and selling timeframe (for most of this you can just leave default values). After that you can push te Analyse button and see results. You can print this results or export them as PDF.
If you are planing to buy a house don't skip this website.

Friday, October 26, 2007

Free real estate listings at choicea

Choicea.com is website which you can use to list your real estate for free. As they would like to say they are: Alternative to the MLS. Who are they? "...a small group of guys who have spent the past year buried behind pizza boxes and pop cans while building this site..." Their database is intended for the by-owner community.

Friday, October 5, 2007

Zillow free online real estate valuation tool

Zillow.com is an free online real estate valuation tool. This is one of the best real estate tools on the Internet. They have over 70,000,000+ homes in their database. Here you can search for your new home, see prices, post your home for sale or discuss anything with other Zillow users.

HomePriceRecords.com home value finder

HomePriceRecords.com is a free and simple home value calculator service, which is searching publicly available home price records. It is really fast, but it is not showing too much informations

Found a house? Use this tips to make an offer

Try to learn as much as you can about the house and the sellers. They have pets, kids, are they smoker, they love their garden? These are all good questions you can ask them, and all of this should came into play when weyou are putting together your offer.
Do you really like that house? Make an offer if you are sure that you will be happy with that house. Don't use round numbers for your offer. Once you have your offer ready, write a personal letter, don't fax it...

Cyberhomes real estate search

If you are looking for new home, try visiting Cyberhomes.com, you can find a lot of good informations. Cyberhomes is Microsoft Virtual Earth mashup and their database includes more than 100 million property, ownership, sales, and mortgage records, covering more than 85% of the United States population. Every month they are updating more than 575,000 new ownership records.