Before the internet, house hunting starts at the real estate agent’s office where you make a schedule for them to drive you all over town to see a couple of houses that eat up a lot of each others’ time until you find something that you are looking for. The internet solved a huge waste of time for the real estate industry, where the potential buyer has already done all research and know exactly which house they want to look at before arriving at the real estate agent’s office.
Call it window shopping for houses. And it is extremely effective, because you will only be looking at houses that you are interested in rather then the agent’s taking you to houses that you will never buy.
Many real estate websites allows you to select residential properties by zip code, price range, number of bedrooms & baths, and various requirements. Why settle for looking at 4-5 homes that your real estate agent has available when you can literally look through hundreds of thousands of home in advance.
