Zillow has been on the web for several years now and was a go-to value checker for homeowner's checking their property values during the height of the recent real estate market.  However, now with the bottom coming out of real estate, www.zillow.com, is now a great place to find forclosures, check on current values, and see if your neighbors are affecting your home value.  Zillow is still easy to use and gives you realtor like tools to give you a heads up on the real estate economy.  To sell a home or get a new loan, you need comparables in your neighborhood to get an accurate read on what your home is worth.  Easy to use drop downs and tabbed categories at the top of the home page make the site pretty easy to use.  Registering is free and allows you to post information on your own home. 

You can also get tips on selecting an agent, or choose from agents listed in their database.  Selling your home on your own can be more than just a daunting task, so an agent can help to make the process go swiftly and without unforeseen problems that could hold up a house mid-escrow or  worse, delays that can cost you a sale.  Make sure to choose an agent that knows the area you are getting into or selling your home from.  Make sure you can get along with the agent because it could be quite a few months that you will be in contact with this person.  And always make sure to compare commission rates.  Rates vary from area to area, and you should make sure that you aren't losing a point to a greedy agent.

Mortgages are the lifeblood of the housing industry, and you need to find a good one.  There are tools on zillow that are pretty simple to use and give you rate quotes for your area.  Also you can pick up lending advice to make sure you aren't getting over your head.  One loan for one person isn't necessarily going to fit the needs of the next person.   I entered my info in to check the tools, and they seemed to do the same as any other mortgage site I have used, and the tools aren't buried so deep that you need to do advanced Google searches to find the page.