Homespotter: An Honest Review Giving You the Full Story

You might have been looking for a home search application with additional features and came across Homespotter.

There are many different reviews scattered around the web.

To change that and save you some valuable time, I will provide a nice and thorough overview in my article from today.

What is Homespotter?

Homespotter is a home search application with a strong focus on mobile, and it works with 300+ MLSs across North America.

Among others, this is a selection of the MLSs it is working with:

MLSs like California Regional MLS (CRMLS)

NorthwestMLS (NWMLS)
NorthstarMLS
Realtors Association of the Palm Beaches (RAPB / BeachesMLS)

Triangle MLS
RealtyMobi, Heartland MLS
Garden State MLS (GSMLS) and many others

Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV)
Fraser Valley Real Estate Board (FVREB)
BAREIS

East Bay Regional Data (EBRDI)
HiCentral / Honolulu Board of Realtors
Spokane Association of Realtors

MetroList Services
Saskatoon Region Association of Realtors
Association of Regina Realtors

Greater El Paso Association of Realtors
RMLS
Bay East Association of Realtors

Contra Costa Association of Realtors
MLS of Hilton Head Island
Southern Oregon MLS

The home search functionality is just one of many other features Homespotter has.

So, let’s get to know all the other features it offers in the next section.

An Overview of All 3 Main Homespotter Features

1) Boost by Homespotter

Boost by Homespotter lets you target prospects on Instagram, Facebook, Waze, and thousands of websites.

The application helps you create nicely designed ads, including good copy and suggests the optimal targeting to display them to the right audiences.

And for each step of a listing’s lifecycle, you can have it automatically create new ads.

In addition to the ads, each listing has a branded landing page optimized for social media and mobile devices.

Homespotter divides the listing lifecycle into new, open house, price reduced, and sold.

Once you have created a new listing on your MLS, it automatically pulls data and media such as the address, property stats, photos, and agent information to create a new campaign for each new listing.

2) Spacio by Homespotter

If you have been reading my blog for a while, you might have heard about Spacio in my article about 45 real estate marketing tools that can give you an edge.

It’s an open house app that helps you with lead generation by converting open house guests into potential customers and generating reports you can show seller clients.

With Spacio, you can create a digital form with specific check-in questions that guests can use to sign in during an open house event.

Once they have signed in, the form can be used to carry out an automated follow-up campaign.

It also integrates with 13 different CRMs, so you will have everything in one place to do follow-ups.

These are the 13 CRMs it integrates:

BoomTown

It also collects social profiles for verified contacts to give you further insights about the leads.

Using the reporting and analytics feature, you get access to information such as the quality of leads and information about attendees.

3) Connect from Homespotter

Connect from Homespotter is an application that centralizes conversations and facilitates collaboration so you can share information 24/7.

It’s a bit like an interactive and extended digital business card tailored to real estate and features like customer relationship management software.

You can create a profile, and once you have it, you can text a link to your potential or current clients. Then, your contact information is displayed on Connect.

The respective clients can then browse the marketplace and collaborate with the real estate agent to find the right property.

The clients can also save their favorite properties and share them with acquaintances, friends, family members, etc.

Also included in this app is a mortgage calculator that takes the property’s value, down payment, home insurance, and further variables into consideration.

Doing that helps the client determine their pricing limits when browsing for homes.

The centralized conversation feature lets a real estate professional chat with clients, listing agents, and prospects from one place.

The last feature helps to edit and update listing information across different devices and synchronize automatically with the respective MLS and MLS-related applications.

Some, but not all, of the supported MLSs are:

ShowingTime

Homespotter Pricing

When it comes to pricing, Homespotter is generally a bit secretive about it, and you can find some information only after some further digging.

Well, this was in 2020. Since then, pricing information went “under-cover” and isn’t disclosed on their website anymore (in 2023).

So you want to take the below pricing information with a grain of salt since it’s from 2020.

Homespotter Boost Pricing

If you choose a small one-week ad package to generate 2,000 to 3,000 impressions, the price starts at $59.

If you want to run open house ads, the price is $59. However, these will run shorter (around 3.5 days).

In this case, you would also generate between 2,000 and 3,000 impressions.

You won’t have to pay setup fees or monthly minimums and wouldn’t be tied to a long-term contract.

Homespotter Spacio Pricing

Homespotter Spacio has three pricing plans: Agent, Team, and Brokerage.

The Agent plan is $25 per month and includes all standard features, such as:

Boost Listings and Open House Ads
Unlimited Properties, Open Houses, Brokers’ Open Houses, In-Person and Virtual Events, and Registrants

Custom Questions (the questions you can use when guests sign in)
Auto Follow-up Emails
Broadcast Emails

iOS and Android Mobile Apps
Export Registrants
New Visitors Notification

Open House Reporting
Editable Follow-Up Email Content
Auto Follow-Up Email Status

All Partner Integrations
Profile and Property Pages
External Registration Links

Leads+ Lead Gen Content
Contact Verification
Social Profiling

Social Sharing

The Team plan costs $100 per month and includes five agents.

It costs $50 extra per 5 additional agents, and if you want the custom sign-in form branding, you also have to pay a $150 one-time setup fee.

The next hidden one-time setup fee is when you want auto-populated listings.

According to the company, this fee depends on the volume of data.

This plan includes all the standard features and the following:

Spacio for all the agents (that’s kind of obvious)
Admin Permissions
Agents Management

Team-Wide Reporting
Property Sharing with Team
Permissioned Access to Leads

Default Form Questions for Agents

The Brokerage plan costs $145 per month and includes everything from the agent plan without the hidden setup fees, and additionally the following features:

In-App Branding

Company-Wide Onboarding
Company-Wide Reporting

So, if I wanted to use the features for teams, I would go right to the brokerage plan since it doesn’t have all the additional hidden fees.

Or at least I would test the agent plan for a few months and then switch to the brokerage one.

Agent Plan $25/ Month	Team Plan $100/Month	Brokerage Plan $145/Month
Boost Listings and Open House Ads	All Standard Features of Agent Plan	All Team Plan Features
Unlimited Properties, Open Houses, Brokers Open Houses, In-Person and Virtual Events, and Registrants	Spacio for all the agents	In-App Branding
Custom Questions	Admin Permissions	Company-Wide Onboarding
Auto Follow-up Emails	Agents Management	Company-Wide Reporting
Broadcast Emails	Team-Wide Reporting
iOS and Android Mobile Apps	Property Sharing with Team
Export Registrants	Permissioned Access to Leads
New Visitors Notification	Default Form Questions for Agents
Open House Reporting
Editable Follow-Up Email Content
Auto Follow-Up Email Status
All Partner Integrations
Profile and Property Pages
External Registration Links
Leads+ Lead Gen Content
Contact Verification
Social Profiling
Social Sharing

Homespotter Connect Pricing

While it’s a bit difficult to find pricing information on the company’s website, I couldn’t find any concrete pricing anywhere for this one.

Homespotter Connect offers two plans.

One is the free core edition, and the other is the premium edition with undisclosed pricing.

The core features in the free version are:

Agent Search
Mobile-First Search
Password-Protected Agent Access

MLS Specific Branding
Access to Agent-Only MLS Information
Analytics

Custom Support
Auto-Populated Listings
In-app Messaging System

The premium features are:

All the core features
Public Records

Search by Drive Time
Access to other information such as tax information, down payment resources, listing supplements
MLS vendor integration so you can edit listings, add/edit contacts, upload photos, access carts, access saved searches

Property Boundaries/ Lot Lines

Free Version	Premium Version
Agent Search	All the core features
Mobile-First Search	Public Records
Password-Protected Agent Access	Search by Drive Time
MLS Specific Branding	Access to other information such as tax information, down payment resource, listing supplements
Access to Agent-Only MLS Information	MLS vendor integration so you can edit listings, add/edit contacts, upload photos, access carts, access saved searches
Analytics	Property Boundaries/ Lot Lines
Custom Support
Auto-Populated Listings
In-app Messaging System

The Pros and Cons of Homespotter

For this pros and cons section, I researched 80% of all bad and good reviews of Homespotter and included my impressions.

Pros

It integrates with more than 300 MLS in North America.
Easy navigation to find info quickly (especially helpful during a showing)
Great ease of use, which makes it easy to teach new employees the software

Easy to customize for particular needs
Compatible with multiple types of devices
You can share data easily.

Nice group conversation features

Cons

Lack of pricing information
Still buggy sometimes on Android and iPhones

There are more bugs reported from the real estate customer’s side than from the real estate professional’s side, such as crashes and server connection problems.
Some report a poor user interface or display functionality, which contradicts one of the pros and could be due to individual user behavior.
Some users reported slow loading speed.

21 Homespotter Alternatives

This last section will discuss some Homespotter alternatives concerning the different Homespotter software products.

4 Homespotter Boost Alternatives

With Boost by Homespotter, we are basically in the field of advertising automation or automatic lead generation.

These platforms aim to make it easier to create pay-per-click campaigns than directly from platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, or Google.

So here are the 4 Alternatives:

RealGeeks

2 Homespotter Spacio Alternatives

15 Homespotter Connect Alternatives

Many of the features of Homespotter Connect are, in fact, like the ones from customer relationship software.

So here are the 15 alternatives:

I also have a whole article about 28 real estate CRMs that you might want to look at.

This article has been reviewed by our editorial team. It has been approved for publication in accordance with our editorial policy.

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