Tips for finding your dream whare on Trade Me Property

When you refine your property search on your phone or laptop, you can refine by location or locations, type of property, number of bedrooms and bathrooms and also, you can refine your property search by property features such as:

• Garage
• Ensuite bathroom
• Study
• Separate toilet

Plus you can receive notifications of new properties that match your property search filters if you save your property search.

If you’re at an open home and discovering a new neighbourhood, this feature will show you other open homes or similar properties nearby so you can do your research. You can then add open home times and addresses to your calendar to make next weekend’s plans even easier.

Exclusive to the app, you can now create customised and multiple Watchlist groups. This is handy if you’re tossing up between more than one type of property. For example, an apartment vs. a townhouse. You can keep all of the townhouses in one folder and all of the apartments in another. That way you can also separate your property Watchlists from other Watchlists you’ve made across Trade Me.

Make sure you’re opted in to Trade Me Property’s ‘personalised recommendations’ emails to receive notifications on your Watchlisted properties like when they have dropped in price.

If you’re serious about a property and you’re close to putting an offer in, on the Trade Me Property listing (on any device), you’ll spot the 'Building Inspection' heading in the 'Before you buy' section below the Local Schools information, where available.

There you can click on 'Learn more' to get an instant quote, and with only a few clicks you can easily book an inspection via our building inspections partner, Inzpec, with an approved inspector in your area.

What’s more, you’ll get 10% off the inspection report price if you’ve come through to Inzpec via Trade Me Property.

You can access all the relevant school zone information for residential property listings on Trade Me Property. Scroll to the listing, click ‘show all schools’ and you’ll get a list of in zone, out of zone and unzoned schools.

Crucial information for families and for investors who might be renting to family tenants.

If you’re getting ready to put in an offer on a home, or you just want to dive deeper in your research of a property, go to the listing and below the Property Insights heading, you’ll find:

• HomesEstimate thanks to homes.co.nz
• Capital value
• Sales histories
• Other homes currently for sale nearby
• Council information and valuations
• Mortgage repayment calculator

We’ll also help you with another key step. At the bottom of the Trade Me Property listing page you’ll see 'House Insurance'. This will calculate the cost of your home and contents insurance with Trade Me Insurance. If you’re already a Trade Me member, you’ll receive 15% on your premium!