idealista Reviews

It's okay but I ran into issues. The developer needs to make it so you're able to highlight, copy, and paste text because you currently are unable to. When considering a property, myself and others need to know if it has access to public transportation or not. In order to do that I would need to be able to highlight the addresses in idealista, copy, and then paste them into Google Maps and make a prospective trip which would then reveal if public transportation exists for the corresponding property or not. Since I'm unable to even highlight the text or addresses within idealista, I'll have to pass and find something else. It just wasn't created with everyone in mind and that's a shame. Nice effort though.

Overall, the this app app works as advertised. The UI is simple enough, it’s easy to use all of the functions of idealista , and it’s very convenient.

However, that changes if you’re using idealista in a language other than Spanish. I use it in English and Spanish, and it seems like the English translated information for listings and for the user profile do not get updated with the latest Spanish information. I’ve had it happen numerous times that I’ll check a listing in English and read the translated details provided by the owner, and then go look at the original in Spanish and they are completely different (my guess is that a listing is translated once at some point and the translation not updated again for awhile).

This is a huge flaw that I would imagine could really inconvenience a non-Spanish speaker (it has inconvenienced me on multiple occasions). So be careful and check the Spanish language listings!

Wow this app is like the only app you can use to find homes in Spain. It’s so much easier in USA with Redfin, Zillow, etc. the developers at this app have some catching up to do. The virtual tours would be better with a 360° photographer. Get rid of the floorplan images. Like if the post only has a computer-generated floorplan, and doesn’t have actual pictures of the place, don’t even post it! What’s the point? Am I right? Also, what’s with hiding the address of the houses for sale? They should get rid of that. Why are you worried about privacy if you’re selling the place anyway?

This is a decent ap. It could be an excellent Ap if the the search tools allowed for 1. more options like Sea view, water front, Ocean front, and # garage spaces... 2. Key word search capability. Seems like idealista has the format correct just need specific options. The key word search Zillow & DotLoop both have these capabilities built into their programs. As an investor, & these options would save me, realtors and other buyers a great deal of time and effort. Thanks and looking forward to improvements. Jingo211

I like idealista but there are still some very frustrating problems. There’s no filters in favorites so when I try to see, for example, homes under €200,000, I have to scroll a long time to get to €200,000. I looked at maybe 5, (trying to see which houses are currently in that price range,) then it refreshed and took me back to the least expensive house in my search.

I believe that my time is near that I will be purchasing. I wish that it would be easier to look at various types of properties. Yes, improvements have been made. More are needed.

#1 The size of the land should be mandatory when creating a listing.

#2 I want to buy a home with 2+ hectares. Land size should be a search filter.

Palazzo, Castel and age should be filters.

Yes, I know I have too many favorites. I’m undecided where I will buy and don’t know how much money I will have. So I look & dream but my time is almost here.

This is from my last review:

I wish that favorites don’t auto refresh. Favorites should have search filters. Please make a separate field for the land & the buildings square meters. It’s very time consuming to read every description when looking for a homes and casale with hectares of land. Palazzo & castels need to be added to building types.

I love idealista. Once you set your default settings and mark the map, you can see a lot of apartments that might fit your needs. But I wish there were a filter for furnished vs unfurnished apartments. Most of the apartments are shown with furniture. You have to look at a lot of furnished apartments before finding those that are unfurnished… if that’s what you’re looking for. In most cases, I believe furnished apartments are intended to be rented as shown. A few have minimal furniture, and it’s hard to know whether the furniture can be removed. If you’re looking for an unfurnished apartment, you have to look through a lot of furnished apartments before finding the few unfurnished options.

this app has been integral to our home buying search. I just have two improvement suggestions: Add “Property/Land Size” filter. We are specifically looking for property with a certain amount of land and having to click on every singly listing and scroll down to find the property size is time consuming and kind of annoying. They do allow filtering by home size so I would think adding property size filtering wouldn’t be too hard. And… Allow filtering by more than 4 bedrooms. We need at least 5 bedrooms and the filters only have 4+. Why not permit filtering by 5, 6, 7 bedrooms, etc? Otherwise, this is a great resource for house and apartment hunting. I would definitely update to five stars if at least filtering by property size/land was an options!

It’s a bit like Zillow in that most rentals appear here. You will find something not just aimed at foreigners but anyone looking. Some stuff stays posted but there’s the option to filter by time posted. Best way to get reasonably priced housing though people sometimes post outrageously high prices just to see if someone will “bite” and some stuff posted doesn’t really exist, it’s developers trying to do a due diligence on whether or not to invest in building.

Hello, I’m a retired doctor. When I decided to retire I started looking for a second home in Italy to buy and use whenever I wanted to spend time in Europe. I came across idealista while researching houses on the internet and it’s really an amazing resource. Now, there is a downside to everything and idealista gives me all the resources but it can’t give you a reply to your email or good quality pictures… Both of those options come from the real estate agent/broker and apparently Italian agents don’t respond to the messages or cannot read English.

I use this app for Azorean properties and love love love that it aggregates such disparate listings from often very small brokers to one place. The mapping feature however is terrible - saying that the property owner doesn’t want to show the location is obviously false and only reflects this app’s lack of ability to show accurate map locations - evidenced by most linked listings having accurate maps themselves. this app needs to find a way to “see” and display that info. This feels however like a small complaint compared to the deep and incomparable utility idealista offers.

idealista is great to search for properties or get an idea of what is available and the prices in Portugal. The only down side is that many agents leave listings posted well after they are already sold, so this can be frustrating (not idealista ’s fault, it’s the agents). But it’s great to see what is available, prices, condition, etc. My one request would be to add an additional filter for energy rating. That’s important to us and would help filter out the properties.

The this app app is a terrific way to search for properties around the world, and can be set to translate listings and email notifications into English. A large array of filters—locations, #s of bedrooms, bathrooms, square footage, views, etc. allows very precise search parameters. The ONLY thing I wish the developers would add is how much LAND accompanies a property. I am seeking something with at least ¼ acre, and have to scroll through the additional information to try to find it.

I do wish that it offered some more filter options. We specifically need a house with 5 bedrooms, but I can only choose 4+ bedrooms. So I get a lot of suggestions that is useless for me. Same goes for the pool. We want a private pool. But I get lots of communal pool options. It should be an option for a seller to list the pool as a private or communal pool. The house of the day feature is pretty useless, since it always seem to show some houses that is not in the area that I am looking as well as some very expensive properties around the country. I would appreciate if that house of the day feature was a bit more personalized.

We’re planning to retire to Italy in a few years. This site has been great for helping us decide which general areas and villages we like. This will help us narrow our search when we need to find a long-term rental in earnest. It also encourages us, knowing that there are beautiful homes and villas in our future. Lots of good search options available. Pleas consider adding France to the countries you list for. We have friends who are planning similarly to us.

We recently moved to Madrid and used this app to find a place to rent and now are using it to find a place to buy. The navigation is very intuitive, it’s easy to filter for the results you want, and the translations are decent for someone like me who doesn’t speak Spanish yet.I did seem to get more responses from the listers if I contacted them directly on WhatsApp (contact info on this app) vs. submitting an en quiet through idealista .

I am an American looking to relocate Barcelona, Spain. I love using idealista to help me learn more about property that might be available when I relocate. The only thing that I wish more promoters would do is put the actual address rather than just the area of where the property is located. An actual address would help me more specifically identify where I want to live in, as I like to see the street. Otherwise, I love the site.

It has great tools to find apartments in Spain. I used idealista to find my wife and I am apartment in Bilbao. A little tip for new users: Posts that are made by real estate agencies do not write back through idealista . You’re better off contacting them through their phone/website/email listed. There are people who are posting the apartment or house that are not using an agency, and usually these people get back promptly through idealista .

I love looking at the available homes in Portugal on this app! So easy the way they offer filters to screen the listings by. I would love to see a couple of new filters added to narrow down what I need. 1) Year leases available 2) Pets allowed 3) 55+, 65+, 70+ building or communities If these are available in The country? Do they have retirement apts in the country Like independent, assisted etc that can be rented?

It is easy to search with this application. You can draw your own search area and enter several filters to find what you like. I wish it offered a history of sale prices for particular properties. The write ups by the real estate agents could be improved to indicate if the property is zoned for residence permanently, long-term rental, or short term vacation rental. But that is not the fault of the application.

Bravo to the developers of idealista! It's full of great features and in some ways easier to use than the desktop version. The only thing is sometimes there's duplicate listings for one place but that's a fault on the end of the agencies more so. Otherwise it's really one of the best apps for finding a flat/home in the EU. Maybe they could come up with a feature to enable a search for short term stays? That's all I can think of