Housewell is a real estate platform that combines agent support with a technology-driven approach, allowing users to manage listings, showings, and offers directly from their devices. By leveraging modern tools, Housewell helps buyers and sellers save an average of $16,000 in transaction costs while providing access to all major real estate marketplaces.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Traditional real estate transactions involve high commission fees for both buyers and sellers, often totaling 6% of the property value. This cost can significantly reduce the financial gains for sellers and increase the financial burden for buyers. The process of managing listings, showings, and offers can also be cumbersome and inefficient, requiring extensive coordination with real estate agents.
Solution
Housewell offers a technology-driven real estate platform that streamlines the buying and selling process while significantly reducing transaction costs. For sellers, Housewell provides tools to manage listings, schedule showings, and evaluate offers directly, with agent support available as needed. Buyers receive a portion of the buyer agent commission back as a rebate. By combining a modern tech platform with agent assistance, Housewell aims to provide a more efficient and cost-effective real estate experience.
Target Audience
Housewell primarily targets home buyers and sellers who are looking to save money on commission fees and prefer a technology-driven approach to managing real estate transactions, while still having access to agent support.
Features
- Listing on major real estate marketplaces, including MLS, Zillow, Trulia, Redfin, and Realtor.com
- Real-time updates and support from dedicated Housewell agents, available 7 days a week
- Online platform to control showing schedules and manage property access
- Offer comparison tools to evaluate financing, timing, and net proceeds
- Step-by-step offer builder tool with pre-built and vetted contract forms
- Online document signing, eliminating the need for paper-based processes
- Team collaboration features for co-sellers and co-buyers