66 Real Estate Services Every Agent, Property Manager and Investor Should Know

We wanted to aggregate a list of the top 66 real estate services that we think every Real Estate Agent, Property Manager and Investor should know about. Why 66. We don’t know but this list will continue to get larger with your help.

Our Methodology - We used resources from the Inman Wiki, Zillow Wiki, and other real estate sources to determine what sites to add to this list. We also used total unique visitor data from compete.com and have only added business to consumer sites with more than 50,000 unique visitors in the US and business to business sites of more than 10,000 unique visitors in the US for the month of April 2008.

If your site meets the above criteria, comment and we may add it to this list.

Real Estate Communities:

ActiveRain - Social network for for Real Estate - ActiveRain
RealTown - Real estate blogs, network, Groups - RealTown
BiggerPockets - Real estate investing community - BiggerPockets
Inman Community - Real estate news and community - Inman
Zillow Discussions -Question and answer platform - Zillow Discussions
Trulia Voices - Question and answer platform - Trulia Voices

Real Estate (For Sale) Listing Services / Search :

Trulia - For sale property search engine - Trulia
Zillow - Hosted for sale property - Zillow
Oodle - Classifieds search engine - Oodle
FrontDoor - Hosted property search - FrontDoor
Hotpads - For sale and for rent listings - Hotpads
Vast - Classifieds search engine - Vast
Homes.com - Real estate listings - Homes.com
Move - Search engine for real estate - Move
Olx - Classifieds hosted engine - Olx
HomesByOwner - For sale listings by owner - Homesbyowner
RealEstate.com - For sale listings and tools - RealEstate.com
Realtor.com - Real estate listings - Realtor.com
House.info - For sale and rent listings - House.info
BackPage - Classifieds hosted engine - BackPage
Craigslist - Classifieds hosted engine -Craigslist
Kijiji - eBay owned Classifieds hosted engine - Kijiji
LiveDeal - Classifieds hosted engine - LiveDeal
GoogleBase - Classifieds search engine - GoogleBase

Real Estate (For Rent) Listing Services / Search :

rentBits - rental search engine - rentBits
RentVine - hosted rental listings - rentvine
RentalHomesPlus -hosted rental listings - rentalhomesplus
Apartments.com - apartment search - Apartments.com
Rent.com - apartment search - rent.com
RentalHouses.com - single family home search - RentalHouses
ForRent - apartment search - ForRent.com
MyNewPlace - apartment search - MyNewPlace
Rentals - Hosted rental listings - Rentals.com
Hotpads - Rental and for sale listings - Hotpads
ApartmentGuide - apartment search - ApartmentGuide

Average Rental Rates Data:

oodle.com - rental rates show when searching - Rental Rates
rentBits.com - rental rate on home page and widgets- Rental Rates
Rent-o-Meter - average rental rate tool - RentoMeter

Home Evaluations:

Zillow - free home evaluations - Zillow
eppraisal - free home appraisals - Eppraisals
HouseValue.com - free home appraisals - HouseValues.com
HomeGain - One stop shop to search, find and evaluate - HomeGain

Property Management Software:

HomeRentals.net - PM software for single family home market - HomeRentals.net
Yardi - PM software for multi housing industry - Yardi
Real Page - PM software for multi housing industry - RealPage
AMSI - PM software for multi housing industry - AMSI
PropertyWare - PM software - PropertWare
VaultWare - PM software for multi housing industry - Vaultware
PropertySolutions - PM software for multi housing industry - PropertySolutions
Intuit - PM software for multi housing industry - IntuitRealEstate
Quicken - Real Estate Investing Software for Smaller Investors - Quicken

Agent Ratings:

Yelp - ratings on everything - Yelp
IncredibleAgents - ratings for agents - IncredibleAgents

Mortgage Tools:

Zillow Mortgage - Free and anonymous quotes from lenders - Zillow Mortgage
Lending Tree - Free quotes from lenders - LendingTree

Local Neighborhood Data:

Terabitz - Data solutions provider - Terabitz
GreatSchools - Data on schools - GreatSchools
NeighborhoodScout - Real estate local data - NeighborhoodScout
City-Data - Local city data - CityData

Marketing Tools:

RentMarketer - Syndication network for rentals - RentMarketer
Postlets - Syndication network for classifieds - Postlets
VFlyer - Syndication network for classifieds - Vflyer
AllPropertyManagement - Property manager leads - AllPropertyManagement

Mapping Tools:

Google Maps - satellite and street view photos - GoogleMaps
MSN Maps - satellite, 3-d maps - MicrosoftMaps
Yahoo Maps - Driving Directions, etc… - YahooMaps
MapQuest - Many of the same features as above - MapQuest