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Lifehacker has the goods on a couple of services that allow you to use your mobile to check out real estate listings.

Homefront allows you to text the street address of a home to HOUSE (46873) and you’ll get back the number of bathrooms, the number of bedrooms, year built, and estimated value. You may also get back other bits of information depending on the location.

Zillow Mobile is an offshoot of the widely discussed Zillow website that estimates home values anywhere in the US. It basically does the same thing. You text a message to z@labs.zillow.com and you get the same information: number of bathrooms, the number of bedrooms, year built, and estimated value. The estimated value is the Zestimate, Zillow’s proprietary valuing guess.

So, if you’re house shopping and came across your dream Victorian and want to know if it is in your price range, you can know instantly whether you’d have to sell your children to afford it.