High school dreams land'12/28/2022 National Association of Realtors’ ® Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers 2016 With back to school season right around the corner and summer home-buying season in full swing, it’s easy to see how ®’s school search feature can help you find the home of your dreams near the school you love. ® even offers ratings on nearby schools from the National Center for Education, Maponics and GreatSchools for reference. I was able to see details about Mill Street Elementary school, including the school score, the grades and the distance from my potential home. If you find a home you like but you’re not sure what school you want your kids to go to, also provides school rating information. Hey, that deep dish pizza sounds good! Our partnership with Yelp allows you to see all of the amenities and their reviews in a neighborhood you’re considering. I also got Yelp reviews of area restaurants, stores and other amenities which adds yet another helping hand in deciding on my new neighborhood. ![]() After clicking on a home, you’ll see all of the listing details including how to contact an agent for more information. Only one more click and I am greeted with a treasure trove of great information on my potential home, including photos, open house dates, similar homes nearby and even how close the middle and high school would be from us, along with an agent to contact. After selecting the school, the map populates home listings in the area. Just one more click into the listing details page and I was able to see a photo of the home, and details on it like the number of bedrooms, bathrooms and square footage. Who knew?Īfter selecting Mill Street Elementary School, it was easy to see all of the homes for sale in the area, organized by price. I typed in Mill Street Elementary School in the search box and was given a drop-down of four schools with that name in the nation. Search for homes near the school of your choice on our main page. Rather than guess which homes would likely feed into the school, I’m going to use the ® school search. Say my family and I are ready to move and want to send our kids to school with their cousins at Mill Street Elementary School in Naperville, Ill. ![]() Let’s take the school search feature out for a test drive. From there, you have one-click access to a home’s full ® listing page. Very simply, type in a specific school of interest into the search box and the schools will be presented on the map view with a “pin” showing the school name and location, as well as homes for sale within its boundaries or nearby. ![]() Read more about searching for homes by school or take it for a test drive now by entering the school of your choice in this search: Now, ® makes it easy to find a home next to the school of your choice. Buyers may also have prior knowledge of nearby school systems considering the average American moves only 12 miles from their previous home. Schools were the third reason behind “being tired of their current home” and a “change in family circumstances/composition.” īuyers have become extremely savvy in understanding the types of homes they want, where they want them and usually in advance of even calling an agent. We did a survey of ® visitors in April and found that those the 35-44 age group identified the desire to be near good schools as one of their top reasons to purchase a home. We also know that access to quality schools is driving decisions to move. Visitors to ® let us know the ability to search for homes within the boundaries of a specific school would be very much welcomed and we listened. And this internet traffic is huge considering that about half of all home buyers (about 5.5 million total last year) have children under 18. Our research shows that homes near highly rated schools receive more internet traffic than the average listing. Unfortunately for the kids, vacation doesn’t last forever and they will soon return to school.Īlong with giving our kids an education and keeping them occupied, school also plays a major role in how we search for homes and where we buy them. Thank goodness for summer, right? The sounds of kids playing outside until dusk is one of the great sounds of the season.
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