Top San Francisco Real Estate Web Sites

The Future of Real Estate

By Pam Gaulin, published Jan 27, 2007
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The top San Francisco real estate web sites that are making a splash are the ones using Web 2.0 technology. These top San Francisco real estate web sites go beyond the standard newspaper listing, or the listings you'd find on other big real estate players like Realtor.com

These top San Francisco real estate web sites are using technology to San Francisco real estate web sites to the next level for home buyers and home sellers.

By aggregating important real estate listings, neighborhood profiles, neighborhood sales prices, and the power of Google maps, these sites are a blueprint for the future of the real estate industry online.

Redfin.com

For housing listings in the Seattle and San Francisco Bay Area, buyers and sellers may want to try Redfin.com. Redfin.com is a one-stop shopping web site for finding, buying or selling real estate.

Redfin.com's approach to real estate combines the benefits of hard data with the appeal of potentially forgoing paying any commission costs. By finding your own house through their site, Redfin.com. Redfin.com takes you through the entire real estate process, from providing real estate listings, tax records, and other analytics in a map interface, to walking you through the offer and closing process.

Redfin.com does take a percentage, but they claim, "Redfin refunds two-thirds of its commission, lowering your down-payment at closing, or issuing you a check afterwards. The average savings is around $10,000" (Redfin.com)

Sundaydash.com

Sundaydash.com combines Google Maps with public records from the San Francisco Multiple Listing System to create a listing of home sales and open houses. Search for condos or single family homes, by maximum and minimum house price, by maximum and minimum number bedrooms, and by maximum and minimum number of bathrooms.

Sundaydash.com is a nice concept, but has an incomplete feel.

Trulia Real Estate Search

Top San Francisco Real Estate Web Sites

San Francisco has spawned real estate web sites that are using technology the right way.

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The market where I live is not well represented on redfin.com.

Posted on 08/10/2007 at 6:08:00 AM

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