It can be tough to find a new apartment to rent. After all, many big cities are already suffering from a housing scarcity. Many new apartment searchers are unable to afford the offered flats due to escalating rent prices. Fortunately, there are many more flats available than you may realize. In fact, not every rental website displays every flat in a given city. Each rental site appeals to a particular demographic.
Whatever your requirements, one (or more) of these iPhone and Android apps can assist you in finding your new home.
1. Realtor.com Rentals
When seeking to buy a property, Realtor.com is one of the most popular websites to visit. Many people may be astonished to hear that it also has an apartment leasing app. Realtor.com Rentals has homes posted that you won’t find anywhere else, and it’s cross-referenced with some of the most popular apartment rental sites.
Realtor.com Rentals, like its main site, provides a superb search function that allows you to sort by bedrooms, bathrooms, and pricing. You may also discover neighboring schools and the facilities that each unit has to offer. Unlike standard apartment search engines, you will need to contact the individual who is listing the flat through an agent. Unless, of course, you look up the phone number for that building and call them yourself.
2. Zillow Rentals
Another prominent home-buying website, Zillow, has a dedicated app for consumers looking to rent. While Realtor.com Rentals has a larger selection of apartments, Zillow Rentals focuses on house rentals. Indeed, Zillow Rentals appears to have the most house rentals of any rental app.
It has a sorting option that reveals surrounding schools and amenities, just like the traditional website. So, if apartment living isn’t for you but you can only rent, give Zillow Rentals a shot. After all, Zillow is one of the most well-known real estate search engines, so you’ll be in excellent hands.
3. Apartments.com Rental Finder
To date, Apartments.com is one of the most popular apartment-hunting websites. Realtor.com Rentals uses such listings to feed its own rental site because it is so popular. The majority of people begin their apartment hunt on this website. Thankfully, they have a dedicated iPhone and Android app that makes apartment hunting even easier.
Its popularity, however, has a drawback. Apartment.com is so popular that many apartments in major cities are immediately rented out. If you reside in a rural or suburban region, you may have a better chance of obtaining a good unit because they don’t get rented out as quickly. Other apartment-hunting applications, while offering more capabilities, may not be appropriate for smaller regions.
4. Rent.com Apartments & Homes
Rent.com, another popular website, offers a mobile app that makes finding a rental easier than ever. Rent.com is the ideal option whether you’re looking for an apartment or a house.
The Rent.com app has the most comprehensive database of rental homes and flats. While the other websites we discussed tend to focus on one or the other, Rent.com strikes a good mix between the two. Its app is ideal for individuals who simply want to rent and don’t care about the style of building, or for those who want to see both alternatives.
5. HotPads
HotPads is the greatest option for those who live in crowded urban regions and can’t seem to find a place to reside. HotPads accomplishes what apartment brokers did before the internet, or used to do. When new units become available, the HotPads app will send you a notification. That way, you can stay on top of your apartment hunt no matter how busy your day is.
HotPads is currently only offered in a few cities: Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Los Angeles, Miami, Nashville, New York, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C.