If you are prospective home buyer or a real estate agent who wants to get on the fly, real time house price data then you might want to check out Smarter Agent, a GPS tracking application for real estate prices on your cell phone. There are several products that Smarter Agent offers that couples the power of GPS position data with the public record information that would be very useful for home buyers and real estate agents alike. It appears that the application has both free and paid components, letting you give the service a shot before you upgrade to one of the different paid services.
Free Real Estate GPS Tracking Services
From what I can tell from the website and my own playing around, you can get the Homes For Sale cell phone application for free from their website. This software will turn your GPS-enabled cell phone into a powerful home finding tool. All you need to do is install the software onto your phone and then take it with you to the neighborhood that you would like to buy a home in. With just the press of a single button you will have a map display of your location and the location of the 10 nearest homes for sale around you. Users can zoom the map in or zoom the map out so they can get a tighter or wider view of the listing and surrounding area. If you want to see more information about the home then just scroll to and take a look.
If you would prefer to see things as a list, this free GPS cell phone application lets you you do just that. It lets you see the top 10 properties that are the closest to the exact location where you are standing according to the cell’s GPS tracking chip. The list view allows you to view property details, plot results on a map, save your search, or expand it to see additional properties in your vicinity. There is even the ability to save your search if you thought that the listings were particularly important to your home search.
Smarter Agent’s Homes For Sale also displays some detailed information about each listing if you want to give that a look. You can see such things at the house’s address, the sale price, the number of beds and bathrooms, the square footage of the home, the estimated mortgage given certain parameters like interest rate and down payment, and the taxes that the home owner pays when that information is available. This information can be huge for those that are just getting acquainted with an area and want find out where some of the houses for sale are located.
In all, this is a great way for people looking for a solid GPS real estate application to get their feet wet for free.
Paid Real Estate GPS Tracking Services
The main reason that Smarter Agent is offering their Homes for Sale application for free is that they are hoping that people will buy their premium product, Recently Sold Homes. For $4.99 a month you can have access to information about the closest homes sold within the last three years. The information available from this GPS application includes the last sold price for homes nearby, the last sold date, and the square footage of the home sold. As you can imagine, this can be very helpful information for getting an understanding of how competitively prices some of the current homes for sale are.
While this information is not going to be incredibly precise, it is still helpful for those that are new to a region to get an idea of what is going on in a region’s real estate market. If you are just starting out with a real estate search then you might want to consider getting your GPS tracking cell phone out and installing Homes For Sale. If you like the way it works and are particularly interested in homes in a certain area then you might want to buy the Recently Sold Homes application as well. The $4.99 might save you some considerable time in your searches.
Compatible Sprint GPS Cell Phones
Homes for Sale is available on the following Sprint mobile phones:
- Blackberry Curve 8300
- Blackberry 8800 World Phone
- Blackberry Pearl
- Blackberry Tour
- LG 535
- LG LX 550 Fusic
- LG LX570 Muziq
- LG lx400
- LG Lotus
- LG Rumor
- Motorola KRZR K1m
- Motorola RAZR V3m
- Motorola SLVR L7c
- Motorola RAZR2 V9m
- Palm Pre
- Samsung A900
- Samsung A920
- Samsung M500
- Sanyo Pro200
- Samsung M610
- Samsung M620 UPSTAGE
- Samsung A727
- Samsung M520
- Samsung Instinct
- Samsung Rant
- Samsung S30
- Sanyo 6600 Katana
- Sanyo 7400
- Sanyo 7500
- Sanyo 6650 Katana 2
- Sanyo 8500 Katana DLX
- Sanyo 8300
- Sanyo 8400
- Sanyo M1
- Sanyo 7050
- Sanyo Pro700
Compatible AT&T GPS Cell Phones
Homes for Sale is available on the following Sprint mobile phones:
- Apple iPhone
- Blackberry 8100 Pearl
- Blackberry 8300 Curve
- Blackberry 8800 World Phone
- Blackberry 9000 Bold
- Blackberry Pearl
- LG CU400
- LG CU500
- LGÂ CU575 Trax
- LG CU515
- LG CU720 Shine
- Motorola KRZR
- Motorola SLVR L6
- Motorola SLVR L7
- Motorola RAZR V3
- Motorola v365
- Motorola RAZR2 V9
- Motorola V3xx
- Nokia 6085
- Nokia 6555
- Samsung A437
- Samsung A707
- Samsung A717
- Samsung D407
- Sony w300i
- Sony w580i
- Sony w810i
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GPS tracking is becoming more and more important for cell phone users as more and more applications are becoming available that allow users interact with the world around them in such a way that they get what they want, when they want it, and where they want to get it. We are becoming a mobile society, GPS and cell phone technology are giving use everything we could every want when it comes to have relevant, location-based information in real time.
All great information but HomeFinderGPS makes it so much simpler. Realtors provide buyers with pre-loaded GPS units that show every home for sale within the buyers price range. Homes can be saved for further research. And the units are free for home buyers and very easy to use.
Hi Ron,
What you say about the HomeFinderGPS sounds very interesting, but I could not actually load the webpage in my browser. Maybe something is wrong with the website?
From what I could gather from the brief picture that I did see before some strange music was played in the background and my browser crashed was that it looked like the program worked on a Garmin Nuvi of some sort. My guess is that the information was loaded onto the Nuvi at some point. To my mind, this means that data could potentially be outdated unless someone is carefully making sure that everything is up to date.
While this might be an inherent problem with all real estate GPS tracking devices, I suspect that it is especially true of devices that are not capable of wireless communication and wireless updates like cell phone are.
If you have any additional information about the product I would love to hear about it.
Thanks.
-Joe