Rating the home-search sites
Odds are, you've searched for homes online at some point -- either to buy, to get intelligence so you could sell or to satisfy your curiosity. What sites did you find useful? Clever? Frustrating?
The Baltimore Sun's real estate section spent time checking out sites recently -- from Realtor.com to Homesdatabase.com -- and rates them in a story today. The criteria:
We evaluated the sites based on a variety of elements, including how easy it was to find homes within our search parameters and how accessible the listing was, how many clicks we had to endure, and if there was helpful and meaningful information about neighborhoods and schools. Although we included the number of homes that each site turned up, it did not figure heavily in our criteria.
Comments
franklymls.com is a great site that they missed! I've done countless searches on their spreadsheet format. I haven't found another site that lists DOM and tax assessments as clearly as they do.
Posted by: Kevin R | August 24, 2008 12:09 PM
Check out CondoAuthority.com to search for new condos in and around Baltimore and DC.
Posted by: JT | August 25, 2008 10:05 AM
Redfin.com is another great site for Baltimore housing market searchs.
Posted by: Wayne V | August 25, 2008 10:26 AM
Agreed franklymls.com is unmatched. Fast, clean, simple.
Posted by: Brian | August 25, 2008 11:01 AM