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Location: North Downtown Houston (Northside Village)
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I'm looking to buy in Houston, TX. Zillow & HAR are great, but I can only narrow my search so much. Is there a better website that will let me put in a price range, area, and features I want? For example, I prefer brick homes... but I have to click on every dot on the map to see a photo, and then it might be painted brick-- so I end up opening each anyway. Also, I'm in Texas... the fact that there are still homes with out central A/C blows my mind. Any help is appreciated!
Your best bet may be to contact a buyer agent that can set up a search in their MLS with all the features you want. If it's like our MLS, there are lots of qualifiers that can be specified, such as brick, but many 3rd party search sites will not carry them all.
My favorite is Prudential Texas Properties. You have to register, but no one has ever called me and I only get an email maybe once a month. Not sure if you can sort for the brick requirement, but there are tons of other criteria to choose.
Last edited by Marka; 06-06-2011 at 11:52 PM..
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I'm looking to buy in Houston, TX. Zillow & HAR are great, but I can only narrow my search so much. Is there a better website that will let me put in a price range, area, and features I want? For example, I prefer brick homes... but I have to click on every dot on the map to see a photo, and then it might be painted brick-- so I end up opening each anyway. Also, I'm in Texas... the fact that there are still homes with out central A/C blows my mind. Any help is appreciated!
Any decent agent site search solution will let you put in a price range, area, and many features.
If you find a Houston agent who uses IDXBroker for their search solution, IDXBroker allows the agent to offer all search filters that the MLS allows.
GOOG "IDXBroker Houston Association of Realtors."
Or you can engage an agent who offers a VOW, Virtual Office Website, as your buyers agent, and that way you can get all information except that which is deemed confidential by HAR, including sales.
Ergo, if the listing agent enters information accurately into the fields, your filters will deliver it.
But, if the agent marks "all birck," and the house is not all brick, you will still have inaccurate results.
Location: DFW Metroplex. Not TX-born but never leaving.
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I like Redfin. HAR is one of the better city-wide websites I've ever used though IMO
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