The long trusted way of finding a new house is always done with a lot of legwork visiting the areas where you are interested in buying.
You spend many hours, during your lunch breaks, after work and at weekends looking for that ideal house.
It is going to be one of the biggest purchases of your life so you need to make sure you make the right decision.
Well now there are lots of new technologies, which can help make your life and decision making a little easier.
From simple text messages to 3D images of all the rooms of the potential house to colour pictures.
Text messages There are lots of new services springing up all around the country, which enable potential house buyers to get details about a house out of office hours.
So how does this work? The house for sale has a sign outside and on this sign is a 5 digit code which the potential buyer Texts a special code relative to that house.
A text messages is then received back giving the potential buyer additional details on price, number of bedrooms, garden size etc.
3G Phones The advance in telephone technology has now allowed estate agents to provide suitable images and Video of properties for people to download onto their mobile phones.
This is a great way to save hours of legwork as the quality of the pictures and Video can be of high quality and using this technology can help you narrow down your search to just a few properties.
Look out for this technology to increase over the years as 3G mobile phone technology becomes even more cheaper.
3D Images on Websites Lots of estate agents are beginning to provide more and more detailed images of properties for sale.
And this has even stepped up another level with estate agents now using 3D technology to provide buyers with full 3D Video of properties along with a running commentary outlining all the house features and local amenities.
This level of technology provides a detailed showing of the house and you can use it to short list the houses you want to visit as it provides so much detail.
Conclusion Benefiting from the latest phone and Internet technology will certainly make your job of finding a new home a lot easier.
Primarily saving you a lot of legwork but there is still no substitute for viewing the house to get a 'feel' for whether it's really what you want.
But use technology to help you create a short list and use the time you save looking for new paint and furniture for your new home.
You spend many hours, during your lunch breaks, after work and at weekends looking for that ideal house.
It is going to be one of the biggest purchases of your life so you need to make sure you make the right decision.
Well now there are lots of new technologies, which can help make your life and decision making a little easier.
From simple text messages to 3D images of all the rooms of the potential house to colour pictures.
Text messages There are lots of new services springing up all around the country, which enable potential house buyers to get details about a house out of office hours.
So how does this work? The house for sale has a sign outside and on this sign is a 5 digit code which the potential buyer Texts a special code relative to that house.
A text messages is then received back giving the potential buyer additional details on price, number of bedrooms, garden size etc.
3G Phones The advance in telephone technology has now allowed estate agents to provide suitable images and Video of properties for people to download onto their mobile phones.
This is a great way to save hours of legwork as the quality of the pictures and Video can be of high quality and using this technology can help you narrow down your search to just a few properties.
Look out for this technology to increase over the years as 3G mobile phone technology becomes even more cheaper.
3D Images on Websites Lots of estate agents are beginning to provide more and more detailed images of properties for sale.
And this has even stepped up another level with estate agents now using 3D technology to provide buyers with full 3D Video of properties along with a running commentary outlining all the house features and local amenities.
This level of technology provides a detailed showing of the house and you can use it to short list the houses you want to visit as it provides so much detail.
Conclusion Benefiting from the latest phone and Internet technology will certainly make your job of finding a new home a lot easier.
Primarily saving you a lot of legwork but there is still no substitute for viewing the house to get a 'feel' for whether it's really what you want.
But use technology to help you create a short list and use the time you save looking for new paint and furniture for your new home.
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