# Realestate Apps for other countries **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 30, 2023, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realestate-apps-for-other-countries/993882 "2023-11-30T00:17:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2023, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realestate-apps-for-other-countries/993882/1 "2023-11-30T00:17:34Z")
The US had Zillow and Redfin and realtor[dot]com so when you see some random house of interest, you can get an idea of how expensive it (and the market) is for that area. It’s a good passtime the wife and I have…while riding 2 up on a motorcycle, we joked that it would be a great phone app…one of my podcasts uses ‘Hey Shlomo’ as a stand-in for Hey Siri so all the listeners won’t activate their phones…so during the ride we’d call out ‘Hey Schlomo! Drop a pin’ every time we saw a cute house, or a McMansion, or a 5th wheel on a plot of land with a fantastic view. You could then go back to any of the realestate apps and look up the properties. Do similar apps exist for Japan…London…Jamaica…Mexico…Scotland…France? Because I’ll see something in the background of a youtube video and am REALLY curious what that little apartment above the Sushi cart costs to live in. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2023, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realestate-apps-for-other-countries/993882/2 "2023-11-30T00:25:15Z")
Zoopla in the UK, which I learned about just last night (re)watching [this old James Vietch bit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_W0yrROr3g). Which, if you haven’t seen it, is worth a watch. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2023, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realestate-apps-for-other-countries/993882/3 "2023-11-30T00:31:53Z")
Thank’s for that, he’s AWESOME ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2023, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realestate-apps-for-other-countries/993882/4 "2023-11-30T00:49:49Z")
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**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2023, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realestate-apps-for-other-countries/993882/5 "2023-11-30T02:06:05Z")
domain.com.au for Australia but I think it’s just a website not a fancy app ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2023, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realestate-apps-for-other-countries/993882/6 "2023-11-30T02:54:50Z")
Thanks Everyone! ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2023, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realestate-apps-for-other-countries/993882/7 "2023-11-30T03:03:45Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > domain.com.au 1300 sq ft 4 room [apartment](https://www.immobilienscout24.de/expose/147468642?referrer=RESULT_LIST_LISTING&searchId=37580f1b-6ca7-348a-a6b5-e5ebd2c63d88&searchType=radius#/) in Munich for only 1.5M Euros! Woo Hoo! ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2023, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realestate-apps-for-other-countries/993882/8 "2023-11-30T07:06:03Z")
For France, google “immo”+[whichever area/place] Other UK sites are Rightmove, Prime Location and Nethouseprices. Or for actual sales prices as recorded at the Land Registry: > **[Search sold property prices](https://www.gov.uk/search-house-prices)** > > Find out how much a property sold for in England or Wales ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2023, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realestate-apps-for-other-countries/993882/9 "2023-11-30T08:11:55Z")
The big one in Israel is [Yad2](https://www.yad2.co.il/) (“Yad” means “hand”), which sells everything, not just real estate. Other leading sites are [Madlan](https://www.madlan.co.il/) (which provides a lot more information about house prices and so on) and [Homeless](https://www.homeless.co.il/). ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2023, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realestate-apps-for-other-countries/993882/10 "2023-11-30T08:32:51Z")
Munich is in Bavaria not Austria. And Austria is where they have kangaroos while Australia is where Hitler was born. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2023, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realestate-apps-for-other-countries/993882/11 "2023-11-30T12:57:36Z")
You (well I) learn the most amazing facts on the Dope. 😁 ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2023, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realestate-apps-for-other-countries/993882/12 "2023-11-30T13:40:46Z")
Coincidentally, I’ve just seen, on another messageboard, mention of two websites in the Netherlands: Funda, and Jaap ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2023, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realestate-apps-for-other-countries/993882/13 "2023-11-30T13:44:36Z")
[Rightmove](https://www.rightmove.co.uk/) is the go to in the UK, along with Zoopla and Prime Location. Basically, if there’s a house for sale in the UK, it will almost certainly be on Rightmove. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2023, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realestate-apps-for-other-countries/993882/14 "2023-11-30T14:49:01Z")
Does anyone know of resources like this for India and Japan? Actually a ‘representative living unit registry’ is what I’m most curious about. Say a 2br 1 ba 800-1200 sq. ft. domicile… Like, if I sold off all I had, what would it take to live in Switzerland…or Nepal…or Cairo… ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2023, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realestate-apps-for-other-countries/993882/15 "2023-11-30T17:06:44Z")
> [@Unintentionally\_Blank](#): > > Like, if I sold off all I had, what would it take to live in Switzerland…or Nepal…or Cairo… An interesting question to be sure. Thanks for asking it; I’ll also be poking at some of those non-US websites. IMO … At a strictly practical level, the various governments’ restrictions on immigration or semi-permanent residency and on furriners owning real property are probably a larger obstacle than raw money supply for any middle class or better Westerner thinking of changing countries / cities. Yeah, e.g. Tokyo is very expensive on an absolute scale. So an e.g. US middle class person hell-bent on living there is not going to be having a penthouse with a view and a housekeeper. More like a room backing up to a railway. But if you really wanna live there it’s probably doable. Those cities have working poor too, just like US cities do. Of course the opposite approach is also doable. And perhaps more interesting. Namely > I have $X. I want to live like a Yth degree fatcat. Where (if anywhere) can I do that? ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2023, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realestate-apps-for-other-countries/993882/16 "2023-11-30T17:11:20Z")
It’s more a fantasy than an itch I’d want to scratch…but I do know of some folks that’d love to take the ex-pat path to retirement. Most of those destinations are just too hot and muggy for my tastes. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2023, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realestate-apps-for-other-countries/993882/17 "2023-11-30T18:01:24Z")
> [@Unintentionally\_Blank](#): > > Like, if I sold off all I had, what would it take to live in Switzerland…or Nepal…or Cairo… According to [this](https://en.comparis.ch/immobilien/result/list?requestobject=%7B%22DealType%22%3A20%2C%22SiteId%22%3A0%2C%22RootPropertyTypes%22%3A%5B1%5D%2C%22PropertyTypes%22%3A%5B%5D%2C%22RoomsFrom%22%3A%223%22%2C%22RoomsTo%22%3A%223%22%2C%22FloorSearchType%22%3A0%2C%22LivingSpaceFrom%22%3A%2270%22%2C%22LivingSpaceTo%22%3A%22110%22%2C%22PriceFrom%22%3Anull%2C%22PriceTo%22%3Anull%2C%22ComparisPointsMin%22%3A0%2C%22AdAgeMax%22%3A0%2C%22AdAgeInHoursMax%22%3Anull%2C%22Keyword%22%3A%22%22%2C%22WithImagesOnly%22%3Anull%2C%22WithPointsOnly%22%3Anull%2C%22Radius%22%3Anull%2C%22MinAvailableDate%22%3A%221753-01-01T00%3A00%3A00%22%2C%22MinChangeDate%22%3A%221753-01-01T00%3A00%3A00%22%2C%22LocationSearchString%22%3Anull%2C%22Sort%22%3A1%2C%22HasBalcony%22%3Afalse%2C%22HasTerrace%22%3Afalse%2C%22HasFireplace%22%3Afalse%2C%22HasDishwasher%22%3Afalse%2C%22HasWashingMachine%22%3Afalse%2C%22HasLift%22%3Afalse%2C%22HasParking%22%3Afalse%2C%22PetsAllowed%22%3Afalse%2C%22MinergieCertified%22%3Afalse%2C%22WheelchairAccessible%22%3Afalse%2C%22LowerLeftLatitude%22%3Anull%2C%22LowerLeftLongitude%22%3Anull%2C%22UpperRightLatitude%22%3Anull%2C%22UpperRightLongitude%22%3Anull%7D&sort=1) link, there are actually 3 room apartments (2 bedrooms plus kitchen) from 120,000 to 2,200,000 CHF. Probably most of those are unliveable (poor location, horribly out of date, etc.) until you get to the 500,000 CHF level. And even many of those are still a bit old. And this is for an apartment, not a house. Forget living in Switzerland unless you’re independently wealthy (really wealthy, like Phil Collins) or are already working for a company with a Swiss office and you have special skills. This article says a person only needs a 1,000,000 CHF to retire in Switzerland. That seems low. > **[A Guide to Retiring in Switzerland as an American - Studying in Switzerland](https://studyinginswitzerland.com/guide-on-retiring-in-switzerland/)** > > Are you considering retiring in Switzerland? Here's everything you need to know about retiring in Switzerland as an American.