What is Homebot Home Search?
Homebot Home Search enables your clients to safely browse markets and explore homes for sale nationwide, all while you're front and center on every listing. Your clients gain personalized financial insights for each property, empowering them to make confident decisions. Each listing provides an interactive smart calculator that makes it easy to understand affordability based on the client's budget and current market data.
Best of all, You stay connected with clients along their home-buying journey! In Homebot Home Search, your contact information appears on each listing, with ways for clients to send you a message or request a tour when they want to learn more about a property.
Continue reading for how Home Search works and check out the white paper we wrote on the topic HERE!
How it Works
Your database of homeowners and buyers have easy access to Homebot Home Search from their automated monthly reports.
🚨Best practice: Include prequal information when adding a buyer to your account, and we'll let you know when their loan is about to expire. Learn more about adding buyers HERE.
Whether starting on Homebot as a homeowner or a buyer, your clients can easily jump into the homeownership or home-buying side using the navigation bar at the top:
When your clients land on the search homepage, they'll know what to do! Simply type in where they're looking for homes, and voila: Homebot's search portal will display for-sale properties in that area.
Clients using Homebot Home Search can:
Search nationwide
Filter results based on search criteria (price, home type, sq. footage, lot size, etc.)
Save searches and "favorite" homes to come back to later (this will initiate daily listing update emails)
Click on listings to view home facts, schedule a tour, and request to be prequalified
Preview and customize estimated monthly payments
As your clients use Homebot Home Search, you'll see their activity in your Homebot Activity Feed. You'll know the moment someone starts their house hunt, and you can leverage your Activity Feed to know who you should call to connect with buyers who are nearly transaction-ready!
Lenders should add a preferred agent to their buyer's profile. That way, their agent will receive the questions sent on a particular home instead of the listing agent. Agents on Homebot will receive all listing inquiries, not the listing agent. More about buyer profiles HERE.
Keep an eye on your email inbox for client direct messages (DMs): buyer clients who are seriously searching for a home will reach out with questions.
Real estate agents on Homebot will need a lender co-sponsor to provide Home Search to clients and prospects. Here's an article explaining the benefits of having a lender co-sponsor and another on how to secure one.
More on Home Search:
Lenders on Homebot can add their client's preferred agent to their buyer profile so that all inquiries about a listing will go to the agent of choice. More on that HERE.
We are required to feature the listing agent on each home for sale, however, agents on Homebot will receive all inquiries on a property. More on that HERE.
Have questions? Send customer support a direct message using the pink icon located at the bottom right corner of your screen.