You tell Burbia what your family actually needs. Schools you care about. The commute that works for your job. The kind of street you want to live on. The budget you have. Burbia scores every town in your metro against what you said. The towns that fit best rise to the top, and you see why each one landed there.
Six metros run the full chat and map experience right now: New York, Boston, Chicago, Miami, Dallas, and Baltimore-Washington. Fourteen more are queued. If yours is on the waitlist, you can vote it up the queue from the homepage.
Yes. Free for everyone during early access. Long term, it will always be free for you to use. We get paid by the real estate brokerages we vet. They are the people who help you negotiate and close on the right home in the town Burbia helped you find. Their fee is paid by the title or escrow company at closing, not by you. You never pay Burbia.
Yes, but the account is free. You sign up so Burbia can save your conversation, your shortlist, and the towns you mark to come back to. Creating one takes about a minute and you never pay for it.
School ratings, commute times to the addresses you care about, median home prices, walkability, local taxes, and a few dozen other signals on every town. The data refreshes continuously, not once a year.
Zillow shows you houses. Niche gives you a town report card. Burbia helps you decide which town fits your family before you start looking at houses. Once you know where you want to live, then you go to Zillow.
You can save it to a shortlist, compare it side by side with other towns, and send a message to a vetted local guide for that town when you want to start visiting. The guide is a real estate agent who knows the area. Their fee is paid at closing by the title or escrow company, not by you.
Burbia is built to comply with the Fair Housing Act. We do not describe towns or neighborhoods using language that implies anything about race, religion, family status, national origin, or other protected classes. We do not steer based on those attributes either. Every release runs through a banned-term audit, and the AI follows a Fair Housing aware prompt that refuses requests that would violate the law. The full notice sits at the bottom of every page.
We launch one metro at a time so the data stays sharp. The waitlist on the homepage is how we decide what comes next. Drop your email there and pick the city you want, and we will write you the day it goes live.