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I am trying to recall the real estate app I used two years ago when house hunting in the Chapel Hill Carborro School District. The app only showed homes in the district. I just can’t find the app anymore. Help would be appreciated.
I am trying to recall the real estate app I used two years ago when house hunting in the Chapel Hill Carborro School District. The app only showed homes in the district. I just can’t find the app anymore. Help would be appreciated.
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Not sure if it's what you're remembering, but Franklin Street Realty used to have a way to search very easily by district or school, but they unfortunately changed their website. It was nice because they included everything on MLS.
You can still search by school on Zillow although they don't list all homes. You just have to go into the filter, click on "show schools on map" and then click on the school on the map and tap "see homes in this zone."
ETA - just wanted to note that while the info on Franklin Street Realty always seemed very accurate, I'd double check school assignment listed on any of the other real estate apps. They're mostly right, but I've found many many errors as well. I don't think the CHCCS website makes it very easy though unlike Wake. IIRC, I think you have to email to check addresses with them, but I'm not certain.
Searching an IDX or VOW site that draws from school assignments as entered in the MLS by listing agents is a pretty fundamental search parameter.
I am amazed when agent sites don't make it easy.
Looking for Chapel Hill schools without designating the CHCSS specifically will drag in Orange County and Chatham County schools, for sure.
At least it isn't like Wake County, where agents can, and do, enter "Wake County School System" to avoid either liability for being wrong, or to avoid entering a less desired school. That really makes search results by assignments even more unreliable.
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Fonville Morrisey used to have a fantastic search engine. You could narrow it by neighborhood, by school, etc. I looked at it all the time and wouldn't be surprised if I recommended it earlier. But they recently changed their site, and it's not as user friendly (or maybe I'm just not used to it). But you can put a specific school (or school district) or a neighborhood in the search field. And then refine in the 'refine my search' tab to narrow by price, no. bedrooms, etc.
Fonville Morrisey used to have a fantastic search engine. You could narrow it by neighborhood, by school, etc. I looked at it all the time and wouldn't be surprised if I recommended it earlier. But they recently changed their site, and it's not as user friendly. But you can put a specific school (or school district) or a neighborhood in the search field. And then refine in the 'refine my search' tab to narrow by price, no. bedrooms, etc.
That is amazing, how much they compromised the usability of their former site. It looks more contemporary, but a lot of contemporary websites just aren't very good.
Oh, well. My IDX isn't working right, so it is not any better.
Glad the schools discussion came up so I discovered the issue.
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I just did a test run of it and it's not very good for putting in school district or high school. I put in Chapel Hill-Carrboro Schools and then specifically Chapel Hill High School and a bunch of Briar Chapel homes in Chatham County came up. I did put in Southern Village and that seemed to turn up the right houses that are for sale in my neighborhood. Perhaps the people who entered these Chatham homes did it wrong? Or maybe they are still refining this site. Not sure, but so far I am not a fan. Their old site was great.
I just did a test run of it and it's not very good for putting in school district or high school. I put in Chapel Hill-Carrboro Schools and then specifically Chapel Hill High School and a bunch of Briar Chapel homes in Chatham County came up. I did put in Southern Village and that seemed to turn up the right houses that are for sale in my neighborhood. Perhaps the people who entered these Chatham homes did it wrong? Or maybe they are still refining this site. Not sure, but so far I am not a fan. Their old site was great.
Chatham County really needs its own post office and zip code.
Fonville Morrisey used to have a fantastic search engine. You could narrow it by neighborhood, by school, etc. I looked at it all the time and wouldn't be surprised if I recommended it earlier. But they recently changed their site, and it's not as user friendly (or maybe I'm just not used to it). But you can put a specific school (or school district) or a neighborhood in the search field. And then refine in the 'refine my search' tab to narrow by price, no. bedrooms, etc.
If you have a local buyer's agent you are working with..... have them set you up on a saved search through the Triangle MLS. There is an option to search by school assignment in one of the fields.
If the basis for you search is just to include all of CHCCS it's actually fairly easy because you can just fill that field out to include the three high schools (East, CHH, and Carrboro) and that acts as a "chatch-all" for the whole district. If you want a specific "feeder-track" (Seawell, Smith, CHH for example)....you can select any one or multiple of a particular "level" (elementary, middle, high) for schools in that field as well.
I wish they hadn't changed the Fonville Morrisey website. It was so much more user friendly and informative.
As an FM agent....trust me you are not alone in that
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I did put in Southern Village and that seemed to turn up the right houses that are for sale in my neighborhood. Perhaps the people who entered these Chatham homes did it wrong? Or maybe they are still refining this site. Not sure, but so far I am not a fan. Their old site was great.
