zillow.com Now on Android

zillow.com is following up the success of its iPhone app with the release of an Android application.
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Android Search at hotpads.com

hotpads.com, a map-based real estate search engine for the US, has just released a mobile search application for Android phones.
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booli.se Listings on Layar

Swedish portal booli.se has joined the ranks of property websites offering an “augmented reality” search with the release of its Layar-based application.
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idealista.it Joins Layar Search Providers

Italian property portal idealista.it has released a home search application for Android and iPhone 3GS users using Layar’s augmented reality software.
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1 Million Visitors For casa.sapo.pt

There’s yet more good news for leading Potuguese property portal casa.sapo.pt. It has released the results of a Netscope study which show that the portal exceeded one million visits in September.
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Trovit Goes Android

Classifieds search engine trovit.com has launched a new app for Android phone users.
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casa.sapo.pt Brings In Record Leads

Portuguese property portal casa.sapo.pt has set what it says is a new record, with 51,500 leads generated in September.
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jaap.nl Offering Rental Listings

The number two ranked property portal in The Netherlands, jaap.nl, is to begin offering rental listings in addition to sales.
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meilleursagents.com Mobile Android App For Paris

Last week leading French property portal seloger.com was the latest to reveal an iPhone App, with “push notifications“, bringing it in line with competitor logic-immo.com, which has had its own iPhone App in the market for several months.

This week we can report that France’s meilleursagents.com has taken things one step further by releasing a mobile android application. The app displays the property value of every single building in Paris in price per square meter.

The “layar empowered augmented reality app” allows users to see at street level, through their mobile phone camera, the value or prices of real estate in Paris.

Users launch the application, place their phone in front of them and steer toward the building of their choice. GPS identifies the location and orientation of the phone and estimates of house prices from meilleursagents.com then appear in real time on the phone screen, above the camera image.

The company claim this is the first application of augmented reality real estate in France.

You can watch a video demo below:

Augmented Reality demo using Google Android + Layar from MeilleursAgents.com on Vimeo.

Stay tuned for many more android releases as the real estate industry cottons on to possibilities offered by this latest technology.

The Future: iPhone Apps, Mobile Sites and Android

As we’ve reported before, major property portals across the globe are involved in an iPhone app war. Take US based zillow.com for instance and its record breaking iPhone app. But there’s also the issue of the more general mobile websites, and the Android market, which portals are starting to get involved in.
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