Residential Property Websites in India

Here is a look at the homes from time to time, and when the members go house-hunting, it is pretty predictably a technology that is search driven. Searching for the homes for rent or sale using online platforms is better than relying on the brokers those are looking to maximize the commissions as well as rarely listen to understand what you are looking for from the homes.

The problem is that with many real estate websites as well as the property apps to look for, how do these even get started? In the search for a house to rent, things began with searching for apartments on Google to generate a lot of leads, from varied platforms which include apartment message-boards. Actually, the message boards a useful resource, many people list on the internal boards to keep home among the know people as they get fewer applicants as the result, increasing the chances.

With some research in the listings, look at what apps are actually popular, we came to shortlist of different platforms.

No Broker

As per the name, one will see homes listed by the owners, you are not stuck paying huge brokerage fee as the company itself says that it verifies all the owners. There is a checklist for owners to follow, to make sure that all listings contain sufficient enough information to be useful. In the terms of listings and the details, No Broker does it great job. It is not well-known, however, which is why it at times felt like it has fewer listings than others.

Itself, the app is looking good and apart from the rentals, it includes buying homes, flatmates and hostels. One can easily and quickly set up the basic filters as well as the results are pretty easy to browse. Also, there is a map view that lets one see where everything really is.

An area where it could be better is it’s suggested- No Broker sends you suggests of flats ad despite the research being in Bangalore, it thought it would be a good idea to pop up the homes in Thane. Also, it sends the suggestions in areas that were over 10 km away from localities has been searching in, which is far from the ideal.

Common Floor

Within Bangalore at least, in the experience, CommonFloor has the biggest set of listings. That is a huge advantage and most important part of looking for homes. It defaults to show broker and owner listings, thus you have got an extra step to see the listings without the agents. The filters are easy to set up, and easy toggle on top lets one switch between renting and buying.

If you are looking for a flatmate or PG, CommonFloor would not help, but for the family looking for a home to move into the solids. The view of the map is pretty smooth and continues to search you scroll. Also, the CommonFloor has a huge number of 3D tours of properties which helps to cut down the site visits on numbers. Most of the organizations are now beginning to do this, but it actually appears that CommonFloor already has a good collection, at least in Bangalore.

There are some issues as well. For one, it tries to enable your Wi-Fi which feels intrusive. Also, when one wants to contact the homeowner, you at times have to re-enter phone number even after signing. Also, many of the homeowners made the mistake on the CommonFloor listings, for instance, possession date or the amount of deposit was sometimes wrong.

Worth pointing out here is that the platform of CommonFloor is extremely spam- you get a lot of notifications by SMS and mail, which can be useful but if one is on the app, it actually is better if that could just be contained within that instead.

Coldwell Banker Favista

This real estate company has varied projects listed in it across India. It certainly pays prime focus on cities such as Gurgaon, Bangalore, Mumbai, and Thane. The site is easy to navigate and one can easily search a property across and find in some ideal deals for projects. One can search not only just residential properties but also for the commercial properties.

The site saves a lot of time of the visitors as one can even contact the sales executives with just a click. Coldwell banker Favista would let the property buyers find the best properties from reputed developers along with the map view of the locations.

Housing.com

Only housing.com presently reintroduced its rentals features, which has actually been shut down in 2015, with claimed 60,000 verified listings. The number of listings is certainly lower than the competition. What are liked were how smoothly view of the map worked and the facts that each listing has a huge number of pictures, some listings on other sites had small thumbnail images which housing.com manages to avoid amongst the listings we saw.

On the other side, the website is a bit difficult to navigate. The app does not support the rentals yet running the latest version of Android app at the time of writing and it has only homes to buy but if one is looking for homes, checking out housing.com is not a bad idea. One will be able to get the good look at homes before one decides to visit all details one needs to know also are available. Setting the filters up and actually searching is pretty simple. The problem comes with the result themselves while looking cluttered and end up looking a bit confused.

99 acres

The oldest one in the list, 99 acres has the biggest number of listings ad one is literally a tap away from search in the general area which is handy if one is already out house hunting as well as pull-out the app. Also, it has a filter which is called listing quality which lets one limit results to the homes with videos or photos or the properties that 99 acres have been verified physically.

That is pretty great and can save a lot of time. While the website feels outdated at this point, the app is pretty fast, and quick. In terms of the listings, it is found that lot of choose from, though one would actually add some sort of distance option along with the date and price options.

One does not have fine-grained control over rate slider in the app, so one can search for 25,000 or 30,000 or 40,000 for instance. This can actually be tricky if the budget falls in between the set of the bounds. The mode of maps on app works, but it is not as detailed as others tried and do not load listings as quickly. If one is making use of 99 acres, it has almost all the information you need anyway.