Sell Your House Faster With These Free Online Tools
Today, hundreds of free online tools help you sell your house. These apps and websites add efficiency to your home sale, enabling you to hire contractors, find a top real estate agent, estimate your property value, market your home, and more.
We combed the internet and interviewed top real estate agent Anthony Marguleas, who’s sold nearly $2 billion in properties, to explore the latest online tools to help you sell your home.
1. Project Color by Home Depot
When selling your home, you need to show it off in its best light … and shade of paint. The National Association of Realtors highlights blue color schemes as a popular trend for 2024. Multiple paint companies, including Benjamin Moore with “Blue Nova” and Sherwin-Williams with “Upward,” have selected shades of blue as their Color of the Year for 2024.
The Project Color app by Home Depot saves you time running back and forth to the store for paint samples to slather on the walls. The app uses AR technology to superimpose actual paint shades over your camera’s view of your home. Simply take a photo of your room or choose “live view,” find the color you’re considering, and tap a surface in the image to apply the color for a preview.
Here are a few of the things you can do with the app:
Browse through a vast inventory of colors from the comfort of your home using your phone
Get inspired by checking out popular colors or getting advice on mood-setting shades
Color match by snapping a photo of a shade you love to find the closest Home Depot paint color
Search for specific color names or numbers
Purchase paint through the app for pick-up at your nearest Home Depot or delivery
Save your favorite paint shades in the apps
You can download the Project Color app for free for iOS or Android devices.
2. HomeLight Home Value Estimator
HomeLight’s Home Value Estimator provides you with a free home value estimate in minutes. Answer seven questions about your property, and we’ll crunch market data to determine your home’s market value.
To arrive at this estimate, HomeLight examines publicly available data such as tax records and assessments, previous sales prices, and current home listings.
The secret sauce to our tool’s accuracy is the information you share about your home’s details and condition. This user-submitted data helps account for your home’s qualitative features that may influence how much buyers would pay for the property.
HomeLight’s Home Value Estimator is free to use on desktop or mobile devices.
