Free Online Real Estate Databases

If you are in the real estate business, even remotely, you can benefit from having a real estate database. The database lists every listing there is online, from every source. There are some free real estate databases that offer this basic information, but if you need more than just house listings, you need something of higher quality. The three best ones out there are Redfin, Zillow, and Trulia. With these, you are sure to get the accuracy that you need. These databases give you access to 100 million residential properties, and you can do all the research you'd like with them. The information in the databases includes more than just house prices. You can learn, and use, amazing levels of demographic information from these databases.

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  1. What do these databases have in common?
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    They all offer tremendous levels of demographic information about residential areas over the entire nation. You can get information by state, city, region or zip code, or about any combination you could think of. They all use the Internet to gather listings, and then put all that information together into a usable program for research.

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  2. What makes Trulia stand out?
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    Trulia offers values of homes, not just those for sale. It also allows you to track the value of homes over time as well as comparing homes in the same city or zip code. This service also combines crime maps so you can see the crime level in any area, along with property values

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  3. What makes Zillow a good choice?
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    Zillow has information on 110 million homes and even has information on homes that are not for sale This increases your ability to track home values in a given area. You can also see home values - for sale or not - and how they have changed over various periods of time.

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  4. What makes Redfin interesting?
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    Redfin is similar to the others, but they were the first to add map-based research to the mix. They did this in the days before Google maps. Since they have been doing it awhile their system s well developed.

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  5. What are some uses for this type database if you are not a real estate agent?
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    Demographic information is a great tool for sales and marketing. With this database, you could get information on where different groups of people are, what ages are common in a given area, what income levels are in a certain area, and so forth. You could also use this to find out about crime rates and other statistics.

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  6. What use would this be to a consumer?
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    If you were looking for a home, especially in an area you are not familiar with, you could use this database to learn about an area. You could learn about houses you are interested in, as well as what is going on in the general area. Getting any type of demographical information is the key to using these systems, and you are only limited by your imagination.

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  7. What is CRM and what is it used for?
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    CRM is software that is used for Customer Relationship Management. Software like this uses real estate databases to give you information about your customers. You can help keep your customers happy by finding out what they are interested in, and how your products are being received. This can help you reach new people as well, as you learn more about a given area you are interested in marketing to.

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  8. What is the future of these databases?
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    Several of these databases are going mobile, so you can get information from any device anywhere. Many of them are online as well, so even though you may pay for the software, the data itself will be online. This will make it even more accessible and usable into the future.

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