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Real Estate Buddy Extension
It calculates future mortgage repayments in your browser while looking at properties for sale on realestate.com.au , domain.com.au, zillow.com or trulia.com .
It gives you more insights on the properties for sale in your area and gives you more confidence to buy a property that fits your current financial situation.
💁🏽 What can Real Estate Buddy do for me?
⚙️Repayments calculations
- Calculates monthly, weekly or fortnightly mortgage repayments.
- Enables you to add a price premium to all listings to account for potential underquoting.
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🔍 Enhanced search
- Hides or blurs properties without advertised prices.
- Display price estimates for properties whose price is not present in the listing description.
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📊 Better indicators
- Displays an LMI indicator on each property.
- Displays an affordability indicator on each property.
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⭐️ Highlights
- Highlight affordable properties based on your financial situation.
- Highlight free properties that you could purchase outright.
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❓Why Real Estate Buddy?
As a prospective buyer myself, I have spent countless hours looking through properties and was tired of seeing listings without prices and not being able to customise the way the price for each property is displayed based on my current financial situation.
🗺️ Which websites does Real Estate Buddy support?
- zillow.com
- trulia.com
- realestate.com.au
- domain.com.au
📧 How can I contact the Real Estate Buddy team for feedback or support?
You can contact Yann, the extension’s creator, on Twitter directly if you need help or to report a bug: @yannhulot1
➕Are you planning to add more features to Real Estate Buddy?
Yes! I plan to:
- Break down loan costs by displaying the principal and interest values over time.
- Add the ability to favourite properties and the financial data attached to them.
- Simulate property price growth over time
- Add more filter options.
- Add more highlighting options.
- Include PMI/LMI premium in loan calculations.
- Include other fees as part of the calculations (e.g. stamp duty, conveyancing fees, title transfer, loan fees etc.).
🧑🏻🤝🧑🏻 Great extension! How can I support Real Estate Buddy?
If you’re enjoying the extension, please consider leaving a five-star rating and telling your friends and family about it. Your support helps a lot!
🔒 What happens to my data?
Nothing. Your data is stored in your browser. I don’t have access to it. It is NOT backed up anywhere else. If you uninstall the extension, your data will be automatically deleted from your browser. All the calculations are made in your browser and are never sent to a third party.
💰 Is there a paid version of the extension with better features?
Not at this stage. If the extension proves to be useful, I may roll out a paid version with enhanced features. At the moment, there is no website, no support besides myself on Twitter and no product to upsell you. It is entirely free.
⚠️ Disclaimer
Real Estate Buddy does not guarantee, and accepts no legal liability for, the accuracy, reliability or completeness of any material displayed through the Real Estate Buddy extension. No action or inaction should be taken based solely on the contents of this information.
The trademarks and websites realestate.com.au , domain.com.au , zillow.com and trulia.com belong to their respective owners and neither Real Estate Buddy or I are affiliated with them in any way.
This extension is a third party product and is not officially created by or related to realestate.com.au™, domain.com.au™, trulia.com™ or zillow.com™.
Source Manifest.json
How to download and manually install Real Estate Buddy extension for Chrome
Looking for a way to install Real Estate Buddy extensions for Chrome, you can search for them in the Chrome Web Store, clicking the "Add to Chrome" button, and following the straightforward process.
However, you may need to install Real Estate Buddy extensions manually, this article outlines two simple methods to effortlessly install Real Estate Buddy extensions, whether they come as unpacked folders in compressed formats like .zip or as .crx files.
Method 1: Download Real Estate Buddy extension and manually install through Drag &Drop
If you ever need to manually install a Real Estate Buddy extension for Chrome, don't worry, it's a simple process. Just follow these easy steps, and you will have your extension ready to use in no time.
Step 1: Download the Real Estate Buddy Extension by clicking the "Download CRX" button on the website.
Look for the Real Estate Buddy extension you wish to install. Go to the website and download the Real Estate Buddy extension package, which is usually a .CRX file and comes in a zipped file. Here ".crx" file is the format for Real Estate Buddy extension that contains all the data.
Step 2: Extract &Arrange Files
Once the file is downloaded, extract that file into its own folder. Similarly, give that extension files a permanent home. In other words, keep it in a folder that you don't accidentally delete it because these files will be needed to make that extension work.
Step 3: Go to the Chrome Extensions Page
Open Google Chrome and in the address bar, type chrome://extensions; it will open the Google Chrome extensions page. Make sure that "My extensions" is selected in the sidebar.
Step 4: Drag and Drop the Extension
Now, go to the folder where you extracted the Real Estate Buddy extension and drag &drop the extension file from there anywhere onto the extension page within Google Chrome.
Step 5: Complete the Installation
Once you drag and drop the extension file, follow the steps that Google Chrome takes you through. Similarly, if the extension file is of .crx file format, you will be required to review the permissions and then add the extension.
Now, you can manage that added extension as you would like to with any other Chrome extension that you added through Chrome Webstore. Its icon will also appear in the Google Chrome Menu on the right side of the address bar once you activate it.
Method 2: Download Real Estate Buddy extension for Chrome and install in Developer Mode
This is another method to install Real Estate Buddy extension manually, but the twist is that here, you install by enabling the developer mode option provided in Google Chrome. This mode is commonly used for testing extensions or running unpublished tools.
Step 1: Download the Real Estate Buddy extension file
Select and download the Real Estate Buddy extension by clicking the 'Download CRX' button on the website.
Step 2: Extract the downloaded contents
Convert the file to a ZIP file if it is in CRX format then extract the Real Estate Buddy extension zip file or folder that you downloaded. Make sure you extract it using the same folder name and keep it safely in another folder, so you don't delete it by mistake. The extracted folder will be needed to keep your Real Estate Buddy extension running.
Step 3: Open Chrome Extension Setting Page
In the address bar of Google Chrome, type chrome://extensions and open the Chrome Extension Page.
Step 4: Enable Developer Mode
After opening the Chrome Extension page, look at the top right side, and you will find the toggle option of "Developer mode."Simply enable that developer mode option.
Step 5: Load the Unpacked Extension
Once you enable the developer mode option, you will see the menu of Load Unpacked, Pack Extensions and Update. From that, select the option "Load unpacked."
Step 6: Select the Extension Folder
Once the pop-up opens upon clicking Load unpacked, select the Real Estate Buddy extension directory and click on the "Select Folder "button.
Step 7: Confirm and Install
After you select an extension folder of a Google Chrome extension you're installing manually, confirm its installation for the final time and let the installation complete.
Conclusion
Here we've made a step-by-step guide on How to manually install Real Estate Buddy extension in 2 ways. We hope this guide proves helpful.
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