Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Help for Real Estate Professionals and Potential Customers

Purchasing a home is often the largest financial decision someone can make in their life. The following applications can ease the process for buyers, sellers, and real estate professionals by providing access to photos, videos, real estate pricing trends and a variety of other types of information.

Zillow

This real estate website for homebuyers or renters provides real estate pricing trends, estimated mortgage rates, and historical tax assessments. Both the website and mobile applications are flexible enough to help users narrow the search down to the most desired properties. Applicable filters include housing style, listing type, price, size, and age. Zillow allows for synchronizing properties between a mobile device and home computer by registering an account with an email address or Facebook account.

Vimeo

Viemo provides users the ability to upload videos from a desktop or mobile device. Users can choose between free and premium accounts which determine how much video users can upload in a week. Premium accounts start at $60 per year and give upload priority.

DocuSign Ink

Allows users to store signature and initials electronically, apply them to a document, and email the completed files. DocuSign is a free application that allows users to reduce paperwork, postage costs and increase efficiencies as a result of reducing wait times for paperwork. Documents can be imported via email attachments, Google Docs, Dropbox, or even by photographing a document.

Mortgage Calculator

Found a property? Great! How much is that mortgage going to be? Aside from giving a basic breakdown for monthly mortgage payments, this free app allows for on the fly calculations factoring in PMI rates, taxes, insurance, and home owner association fees. The Pro version allows for calculating payments on a variety of loan payment structures.

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