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The Best Real Estate iPhone Applications

Posted January 16, 2010 by Matthew Denton

Here’s the list every buyer, seller, agent and whoever has something to do with real estate should be reading.

There are hundreds of real estate-related iPhone applications that you can download either for free or for a fee. So how do you choose the best apps available? Here is the list to sort the most useful ones from those that can only take a part of your phone’s memory and remain useless.

iCalc Mortgage
Do you know how much to pay for your mortgage given your current job and credit status? What if the market turns to your advantage? What if you move to Los Angeles to take a new job? How does each move affect your mortgage payments? iCalc Mortgage can both aid realtors in advising their clients and buyers in computing for their payments. Now, you don’t have to make an excuse for underestimating your monthly mortgage.

Yelp
This is every agent’s best friend. Yelp takes the user to browse on their client’s favorite real estate spots. It contains links to thousands of business addresses, phone numbers, etc. Best of all, it’s a free app.

AroundMe
When checking out a place, should you always spend on your gas just to take a tour of the neighborhood? Luckily, the folks at TweakerSoft thought of developing AroundMe. Users can find a complete list of business establishments in a particular place plus it can also run Wikipedia to gather more information. Isn’t that a must for house hunting folks?

Smarter Agent
Smarter Agent will detect your GPS location and searches thousands of homes available in your area. Users can filter results based on price information, the number of beds/baths, interior and exterior qualities, square footage, images and much more. Finding the property is also a breeze with the map results to see the area and receive directions to each listing available.

Real Estate Dictionary
Chicago-based technology company Intersog offers a 3,000-word list of real estate’s most frequently used terminologies. So stop browsing on ten sites just to understand what a balloon mortgage is. Every definition is just one click away.

TourNarrator
Now, this is what technology is all about. a la mode, inc. , a real estate soft ware developer has created its latest offering called TourNarrator. The agent- and broker-friendly app allows users to take notes about a client’s preferences by typing or voice recording and storing the files with photos of other property features. The result is then presented in a rich PDF file to the user’s phone. Perhaps, the only thing that would be not appealing is the $1.99 cost of downloading the app. However, the conveniences of high-tech note taking makes up for the expense.

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