Mortgage-calc.com
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Best real estate Web sites
Sixteen addresses that can save you time and money.
By Carolyn Bigda and Janet Paskin, MONEY Magazine reporters
May 17, 2006: 4:30 PM EDT
NEW YORK (MONEY Magazine) - Unless you've bought, sold or
refinanced recently, you may not realize how much the Internet
has changed the game in real estate. It wasn't all that long
ago that you had to actually phone banks to get mortgage
quotes or had to physically show up at an open house to get
a look inside it.
Now, information that once was closely held by high-commissioned
professionals is just a mouse click away.
Want to access the multiple-listing service without seeing
an agent? Check.
Plan a dream home without hiring an architect? Check.
Find out the value of every home in your neighborhood (or
any other)? Yep, you can do that online too.
But that's not all. Read on for a download of our favorite "home" pages.
Best site to find out if you can afford a house
Mortgage-calc.com
There's no shortage of mortgage calculators out there, but
this one ranks high for efficiency. No ads, no pop-ups, nothing
but straight number crunching. Here you'll find the standard
offerings: What will your mortgage payment be? When will
you pay it off? But the site also features more advanced
arithmetic:With "prepay vs. invest," for example, you plug
in the amount of a recent windfall to determine whether it's
better used on your mortgage or on stocks.
To read further click
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