Early beta · a home search built around you
Describe the house you want. However you'd say it.
Turn your priorities into a focused shortlist. Basecamp reviews available listings in your chosen towns, compares their photos and descriptions with your brief, and explains which homes deserve a closer look.
Four example search briefs
“A lake house we can swim from, with a screened porch, that we can rent out the weeks we're not there, under three hours from Mendham, and close enough to a ski hill for February.”
- we look at the photos
- we read the write-up and the facts
- we compare the facts and location
Filters find bedrooms. You're looking for a house.
A look no filter has
Stone farmhouse. A-frame. A porch that faces the water.
There is no checkbox for the house you have in your head. So we look at the available photos of matching listings in your towns and say what we see, photo by photo, before you spend a Saturday on it.
Rules you'd otherwise phone about
Rentals allowed. No HOA. A dock you actually own.
Say what has to be true and we read for it in the listing's facts and the agent's write-up, then show whether the listing supports it, partly supports it, or offers no evidence. Anything that can't be settled from the listing becomes a question for the agent.
Two things at once
A lake to swim in and a ski hill and under three hours.
Most searches make you pick one. We compare the location, available evidence, and your priorities — so the house that has most of it, in the right proportions, rises to the top.
What a pick looks like
Every pick comes with its reasons.
- A score against your bar, not a generic one. A lake family, a retiree and a landlord should not get the same number for the same house.
- Evidence, with its source. “Water access: confirmed” points at the frontage in photo 3, or at the deed language in the write-up.
- Strengths, concerns, and what to ask the agent, so the first phone call is a useful one.
- Estimated travel from your home base, on a map, next to every listing.
Illustrative example · not a current listing
New London, NH · 1.4 mi to village · about 4h 40m from home
An example lakefront farmhouse
$1,595,000 · 3.21 ac · 5 bd / 4 ba · 3,341 sqft
Water access: confirmed (photo 3) · Mountain views: confirmed (photo 7) · Rentals allowed: partial — ask the agent
Updated 1834 lakefront farmhouse on 3.2 acres near New London village
Direct frontage on Pleasant Lake with a dock and level lawn to the water, a barn with room for a guest suite, and Mount Sunapee fifteen minutes away. The kitchen and baths were redone in 2021; the roof is original and should be budgeted. Village walkable in good weather.
Strengths
- ▪ 210 ft of owned frontage, dock in place
- ▪ Barn suits an in-law conversion
Concerns
- ▪ Original roof (photos 4, 9)
- ▪ Road noise on the north side
Ask the agent: is the dock permitted · any rental registration in town
How it works
1 · Describe it
Ten minutes, in your words
Who's buying and how you'll use it, the places you already love, the budget, the must-haves and the hard no's. Every question says what it changes. You end with a plain-language brief you can edit.
2 · Approve the plan
Towns, cut-offs, and what counts
From your brief we draft the towns to watch, the hard limits, the evidence a listing has to show, and how to weigh the rest — and put it in front of you before anything runs. Read the proposal and apply it when it reflects your priorities.
3 · It keeps watching
Like having someone on it
Scheduled scans review new matching listings in your towns against your brief — photos, write-up, facts — and the few worth a drive land on your dashboard with their reasons. When the search should change, you get a proposal with the numbers, and it changes only when you say so.
Please read this
Research, not advice.
Basecamp is a research tool. Its reviews are written by an AI reading public listing photos, descriptions and facts. It can misread a photo, miss a rule, or work from a listing that has since changed. Nothing here is an appraisal, an inspection, a legal opinion, or financial advice, and Basecamp is not a real-estate broker, agent or lender.
Before you act on anything you see here — a price, a drive time, whether a town allows rentals, what is or isn't in a photo — verify it yourself with the listing agent, the town, an inspector and your own attorney. Listing information comes from public sources and belongs to the brokers who published it; Basecamp is not affiliated with Zillow.
Say what you're looking for.
Start with a brief. Review your plan before your first scan.