What do you do if you have to move to a new state but are not familiar with any communities there, or you want to retire and move but don’t know where?

There just might be an easy answer to your dilemma. Resmedia.com has recently reported a new Internet technology called HouseHunts. Their website can be found at  http://www.house hunt.com/quicksearch.  Once there you begin to a search by Community Type. With this search, there are many types of options you can select to narrow your search, depending on what kind of place you are looking for. Some examples of the options available are:  College Towns, City-Living, Golf-Tennis, Resort Property, Retirement Living, etc. You can also further narrow this by picking the state beforehand or seeing all U.S. corresponding matching communities available.

Once you have found one or several locations of choice, further information can be obtained to help you in your decision. You can find out about the schools, realtors, mortgage rates of each city, as well as an overall list of the places in the US ranked as:  best place to live, safest cities, most affordable, most expensive, etc .A “Real Estate Market Trends” quarterly report is also available that provides stats on average home prices, average market time (from listing to sale), and the % of asking prices sellers are getting.  These statistics are complied based upon the 2.4 million active listings they access as well as sales info on around 70 million homes. The searcher is also provided with the new feature of looking for properties based on videos and/or virtual tours of many of the properties active on the listings. This can be found at the following link: http://www.househunt.com/real-estate/video/.

This site also helps generate new listings as it can provide a home owner with an incentive to sell, by giving a general idea of how much a home is worth based on another search option available, and if the home owner likes the value and considers selling, the site has a real estate agent in each community to answer questions or help anyone with their buying/selling needs.