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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mouseprice.com iPhone App Promises UK First

UK free-to-list portal mouseprice.com has just released its iPhone application, which will allow users to check property valuations, price paid data and comparables on the move.
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redfin.com Quadruples its Data

US online real estate broker redfin.com has announced major upgrades to its website and improvements to its iPhone application.
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fotocasa.es App Alerts Property Hunters

Spanish portal fotocasa.es has released an iPhone application it says offers a unique service to property hunters: as well as allowing users to search for property, the application also sends them alerts when a property matching their search criteria comes on the market.
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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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Calling all iPhone Applications

iPhone applications are becoming an important distribution channel for property portals around the world.  Some major sites are telling us that as much as 20% of their weekend visits are coming from their iPhone application while others are reporting large volumes of downloads from the iTunes store.

Any which way you cut it, mobile access to portal sites is coming of age.

The team here at Property Portal Watch plans to review the property portal applications on the market and to help us we need to know what applications there are out there.

Therefore, tell us about the property portal iPhone applications that you know by either commenting on this post or by sending an email to editor@propertyportalwatch.com.

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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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.

homes.com Joins Mobile Race

With the competition between property portals to create the most wanted mobile app heating up, US portal homes.com has made a move to cover all bases with the release of its new mobile website and a free application for the BlackBerry Storm.
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