Today, you can take your Smartphone to the next level by letting it help you to hunt for a new apartment in South Africa today, wherever you are. You will find a dozen apps covering major towns around the world, Cape Town, Johannesburg, and other cities around South Africa. Mortgage companies, listing services, real estate firms, and others have lots of free applications for your iPhone and Android device to help you access that dream house you have always wanted. Most of these house hunting applications are using global positioning systems to even find where you are located now to give you as much information on nearby listings as possible.
Realtor.com Real Estate
While this is an agent listing site, it is not possible to find apartments listed by owners. However, this is a very accurate application with lots of homes for sale or rent as well as lots of standard filters that refine a single search seamlessly. You can also find a house by price, refresh your listings and narrow down to a specific search area.
PadMapper Apartment Search
Filters are always great when searching for something, especially due to the hectic mess apartment hunting is. If you are able to narrow down the search, the happier you are. This app is arguably one of the best online search engines for apartment search with wonderful filters. You are able to filter by pets, owner or no fee, shares and rooms as well as full-term leases among others to get you important information on available apartments.
Real Estate
As one of the best apps around, the streamlined and smooth interface and helpful layers feature is quite essential. It might not be that effective in filtering, but once you have indicated you want to buy or rent from a certain location, the app gets you all the listings available. The layers feature allows you to find schools, amenities, local boundaries and heatmaps.
HotPads Rentals and Real Estate
Compared to the HotPads website, this app falls a little short but lots of listings are shown as you search for specific places. Maps have symbols to specify the type of housing. However, you will find very few filters available. Nonetheless, for those with HotPads accounts, this app is worth having.
MyApartmentMap Apartments Search
Apartment hunters will love this app with a very innovative approach. The user interface is divided into deals, data, map and list tab. While many apps for apartment seekers have a map and list, this app goes a step further to add a deals and data tab making it a beauty to use. Through the data tub you will see the average rent within your locality, rental trends and rent nearby. Special promotions are shown in the deals tab.
Smarter Agent’s Real Estate
This app has some wonderful features, especially for property for sale listings and rentals. If you are out there to buy a house or flat, you will find this app very handy. The app uniquely draws government locations, community, education, services, transportation, entertainment and lifestyle from the web before mapping them on to the place you have selected.
There is one website called gumtree which also can help you find the perfect place to rent or buy. Check out Gumtree for holiday homes and much more.
