Although world economy is going down the hill and the real estate business is suffering too, yet everyone needs a home to live in – whether you buy it or rent it. If you are looking for a nice home to live in and want to buy or rent it, then you can search a home at Zillow. Zillow is a free internet service, a living database of more than a hundred million U.S. homes, including homes for sale, homes for rent and homes not currently on the market. Zillow is dedicated to helping homeowners, buyers, sellers, renters, agents, mortgage professionals, landlords, and property managers find and share vital information about homes, real estate, and mortgages.
On the Zillow web site, you can search for home in an area inside the United States. You can also search for the mortgage rates for houses in a particular area. Just type in the name of the area (for example, South Gardiner, Maine) and hit Enter. If you are looking for houses for rent or sale, you would see a map containing the houses available in that area. You can hover your mouse over a house in the map to see the sale price or the monthly rent for that house.
Under the map is a list containing all the details for the available houses. The list shows the pictures, address, sale or rent price, number of bedrooms etc. for every house in it. If you click on a house in this list, you can see more details for that house.
If you want, then you can select Professionals from the top menu to find the real estate agents serving in the area you searched for available homes. You can find the phone numbers, email addresses and other contact information for these real estate agents so you can directly contact them and discuss about which house you are interested in. You can also fix an appointment with them, so that you can personally go and check a house you want to buy.
Zillow not only lets you search for homes for rent or sale, it also helps people make smart decisions about their homes – whether it is buying a home, selling, renting, leasing, remodeling or financing – it is all about empowering people with data and information.
You can visit the Zillow web site at : http://www.zillow.com/.