Access to housing is hampered by an imbalance between supply and demand that in practice means that, regardless of whether you are looking to buy or rent, prices are much higher than what people can afford. Although they do not solve the situation, there are applications that help in the search, since they allow you to filter by areas of interest and create alerts for when new ads that fit people’s needs are published.
Perhaps the most popular are Idealista, Fotocasa and Pisos.com. Users can access the website or the mobile application, since they have both options, and select filters (municipality, area, type of property, rooms, state, etc.) to narrow the search and contact individuals or companies who have published the advertisement. They also include a (guideline) mortgage calculator, in case you want to buy.
Although they can be used without logging in, creating an account expands the search possibilities. For example, saving listings as favorites, tracking listings, and communicating with owners within the service.
In the same line it offers its services Habitaclia (web and mobile application), which acts as a portal that gathers advertisements and allows you to search for properties to buy or rent, and limit the search using filters (type of property, province, municipality, etc.).
For the purchase and sale of homes it is tiko (former Housell). This service acts as a real estate mediator with a digital approach, with a network of agents that operates in Madrid, Valencia, Barcelona, Granada, Zaragoza, Málaga, Seville, Santander, Valladolid and León. But it also puts the potential buyer in direct contact with the seller.
In a similar style to Tiko is Housfy, which offers real estate services to individuals for the purchase and sale of homes, although it also has a search engine for rental homes.
If what you want is a rental home, Enalquiler.com gives access to ads from all over Spainallows you to narrow your search by establishing whether it is a long-term rental or a monthly rental. It has the usual filters, municipality, neighborhood, maximum price and rooms.
Badi goes to the room rental. It recently updated its app to introduce machine learning technology and a new way to connect who offers a room and who searches for it, similar to how Tinder works: passing the requesting profile to the right or left, depending on whether you like it or not.
Although it is a free application, it also offers a subscription (Badi Gold) that allows users to have unlimited connections and send requests without having to write a message. And with ‘Fast Track’ they can contact you exclusively and send messages in advance.
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