Buy a Home: Tour Homes
Once you've found a few homes you'd like to see, you can tour them with Redfin or attend open houses.
Read our advice for home-tours and take the home tour checklist 
with you on each tour.
New! More free tours with Redfin. You can go on up to four home tours without paying any money up-front. Here's how it works:
- Your first two home tours are free.
- Your third and fourth home tours reduce your Redfin refund by $250 each. If you don't buy a home with Redfin, you pay nothing for these tours.
- After your first four home tours, additional tours cost $250 in advance.
Still need more tours? Redfin Select offers all the tours you need, at a maximum of two per week. Currently available in Seattle only. Find out more.
Each tour lasts up to two hours. Depending on your route, you can see as many as six homes per tour. Before you tour homes with Redfin, you must have a pre-approval letter for the amount of your expected offer on the homes you want to tour.
Click the Tour This Home button at the top right of the Listing Details page to schedule a tour. Or, use the form below and identify the homes you want to see by MLS number. If you don't know the MLS number, use the address instead.
During business hours, an agent will get back to you within four hours to schedule a tour. We generally conduct home tours between the hours of 9 a.m. - 6 p.m., seven days a week. Weekend appointments fill up quickly so be sure to book early. We do our best to accommodate same-day requests, but please try to allow at least a day for us to schedule your home tour.
- Attend a few open houses in the area to get a sense of the neighborhood.
- Drive by the homes you're interested in prior to the tour, to be sure you really want to see them.
- Make a list of 4 - 6 homes you'd like to see on your two-hour tour.
Open houses are a great way to get an idea of home prices and to find out what you like. In a few hours, you can see five or six homes. If a home has an open house that is listed in the MLS, that home's icon on the Redfin map will say "OPEN" and the listing details page will display the open house time.
Another way to find open houses is to drive around a neighborhood on a weekend and look out for the street-corner signs guiding you toward the showings. You can also check the Sunday paper or craigslist, or you can ask the listing agent, whose number is provided in Redfin's details page for each listing.
If you are touring newly built homes, you should be careful to identify Redfin as your agent so you can be sure to get a commission refund.
"The information Redfin's website provides is very useful and we were able to do our own research on pricing easily. Our agent was there to assist us whenever we needed her."
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